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Transformational Thinking About (Cannabis) Marijuana:
Differing Perspectives, Traffic Safety and Partner Building
Glenn Davis-Highway Safety ManagerColorado Department of Transportation/Highway Safety Office
(HSO)
Chief Robert TicerLoveland Police Department
Kristi Kelly-Executive DirectorMarijuana Industry Group
“Selling” the HSO Position of Ending Cannabis Prohibition through Constitutional Amendments
•Advocate?
•Candor.
•Realist!
•Story Teller.
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Selling the HSO Position/Safety Through Partnerships
Our Partners are…..
Colorado Task Force on Drunk and Impaired Driving (Members 11)• Colorado Department of Transportation (Vice Chair)• Colorado State Patrol (Secretary) • Colorado Department of Revenue
o Driver’s License Sanctioningo Liquor Enforcement
• State Court Administrator’s Office• State Public Defender’s Office• Colorado Department of Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health
o DUI Substance Abuse Treatmento Minors Substance Abuse Treatment
• State Court Administrator’s Office, Division of Probation Services• Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment• Colorado Peace Officers Standards and Training Board
(Representatives 14)• Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police (Chair) • Colorado County Sheriffs Association• Family Member of a Victim of Drunk or Impaired Driving• Mothers Against Drunk Driving• Colorado District Attorneys Association• Colorado Criminal Defense Bar • Alcohol Industry
o On-Premise Retailers o Off-Premise Retailerso Distributors o Manufacturer
• A Person Under 24 who is Enrolled in a Secondary or Postsecondary School• Colorado Association of Addiction Professionals• Statewide Organization of Retail Marijuana for Consumption Off Premises• Owner or Manager of a Retail Marijuana Distribution Site
Outreach to the Cannabis Consuming Public
Marijuana-impaired driving continues to be a problem on Colorado roads.
From 2017 to 2018, the Colorado State Patrol (CPS) noted:
• A 25 percent increase in marijuana DUI citations. (Increase in DRE and ARIDE training)
• A 112 percent increase in DUI citations involving both marijuana and alcohol.
• In 2018, more than 20 percent of all DUI citations by CSP involved marijuana.
Why are we doing this?
Overview
• First-of-its-kind “campaign” to understand beliefs,
assumptions, and behaviors on driving high.
Two parts
• Gather Information — Focus groups and surveys
open to the public
• Public engagement — working with the cannabis
industry, government, advocacy groups,
universities and law enforcement
What is the Cannabis Conversation?
Goal 1: Understand the issue and to cooperatively
find solutions to marijuana-impaired driving
Goal 2: Create partnerships, engage the public, and
implement solutions to develop future campaigns
Outcome: Identify and test solutions that encourage
people not to drive after using marijuana
What do Colorado Roadway Users think?
Self-Reported Survey Results:
• Many users consider alcohol to be the main determinant of impaired driving, not cannabis.
• Most users are critical of laws, policies and enforcement about driving under the influence of
cannabis.
• The more often people consumed cannabis, the less dangerous they consider cannabis-
impaired driving to be.
• Trust point of sale providers (budtenders) for information.
• More at coloradocannabisconvo.com
Colorado’s HSO Plans to Address the Cultural Change(s) in Roadway Users
• For decades it was the social norm to drive impaired. It took tougher laws, strict enforcement and a social movement by groups like MADD to change the narrative and create a stigma against impaired driving . Such efforts dramatically reduced drunk driving fatalities. (SFST, PBT, Express Consent etc.)
• As the first government to end prohibition of recreational cannabis, the HSO has a unique opportunity to lead and change or even set the social norm.
• The goal is to partner with our public, industry, law enforcement, non profit health and others to set to social norm in Colorado and perhaps a leading path for the country.
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Traffic Safety Impacts/Fatalities – Cannabis
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Number and Percent of Traffic Fatalities by Driver Delta-9 THC Level, Colorado, 2016-2017
2016 2017
6%
14%
8%11%
Supporters Include:
v Cannabis Industry
v Law Enforcement
v Statewide
Municipalities
v Universities
v Advocacy Groups
Campaign Supporters
For Information on CDOT Impaired Driving Programs
Glenn DavisHighway Safety ManagerColorado Department of Transportation Office of Transportation SafetyHighway Safety [email protected] 757 9462
