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U.S.-Canadian researchers say car crash deaths involving cannabis on the rise in the U.S.

Research out of the Boston Medical Center, Boston University and the University of Victoria indicates people who died in motor vehicle collisions (MVC) involving cannabis had 50 per cent greater odds of also having alcohol in their system.

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Published online last week in the American Journal of Public Health, investigators came to their findings after exploring 19 years of data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, which covers fatal crashes on public roads from 2000 to 2018.

“Trends in fatalities involving alcohol have remained stable,” study authors write.

But with regard to cannabis, the percentage of fatalities involving cannabis increased from nine per cent in

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