{"id":12335,"date":"2019-01-03T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12335"},"modified":"2019-01-03T10:55:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:55:42","slug":"too-high-to-drive-states-grapple-with-setting-limits-on-weed-use-behind-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12335","title":{"rendered":"Too High To Drive: States Grapple With Setting Limits On Weed Use Behind Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>It used to be the stuff of stoner comedies and \u201cJust Say No\u201d campaigns. Today, marijuana is becoming mainstream as voters across the country approve ballot questions for legalization or medical use.<\/p>\n<p>In response, state governments are testing ways to ensure that the integration of this once-illicit substance into everyday life doesn\u2019t create new public health risks. These efforts are sparking a difficult question: At what point is someone too high to get behind the wheel?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/too-high-to-drive-states-grapple-with-setting-limits-on-weed-use-behind-wheel\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=68715612&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8iXWHewjBPb9StDrBo50FC6PwK1habTGebBFo0mDrnj_AI1zIMLkJP4hG4nuF8C1z6Fa97khtD_58Mm0EtSvbqKHci3w&amp;_hsmi=68715612\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News) It used to be the stuff of stoner comedies and \u201cJust Say No\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12336,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions\/12336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}