MARIJUANA AND ACTUAL DRIVING PERFORMANCE
The report concerns the effects of marijuana smoking on actual driving performance. The major objectives of the program were to determine the dose-response relationship between delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), marijuana's main constituent, and objectively and subjectively measured aspects of real-world driving; and, to determine whether it is possible to correlate driving performance impairment with plasma concentrations of the drug or a metabolite. A variety of driving tests were employed, including: maintenance of a constant speed and lateral position during uninterrupted highway travel, following a leading car with varying speed on a highway, and city driving. The purpose of applying different tests was to determine whether similar changes in performance under the influence of THC occur in all, thereby indicating a general drug effect on driving ability.
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Supplemental Notes:
- See also PB83-219121. Sponsored by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, DC. Office of Program Development and Evaluation.
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Corporate Authors:
Limburg University
Institute for Human Psychopharmacology
Maastricht, Netherlands -
Authors:
- ROBBE, HWJ
- O'Hanlon, J F
- Publication Date: 1993-11
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 144 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Driver performance; Drivers; Drug effects; Drunk driving; Marijuana; Performance tests; Personnel performance
- Old TRIS Terms: Performance testing
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00672239
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: IGVG-92-15, DOT-HS-808 078
- Files: NTL, TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 17 1995 12:00AM