Glasses to simulate the effects of cannabis

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Thursday, 22-feb-2018 06:09

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QUEBEC – To support its awareness-raising campaign on the risks of cannabis and driving, CAA-Quebec will introduce goggles that simulate the effects of pot to high school students.

“Twenty minutes at the wheel, but I remember just being embedded in my self worse for me to be stationed.”

“Spent 20 minutes looking for my cell in the char… In me shining the light of my cell!”

Here are two excerpts from the advertising campaign, which will be presented on social media by CAA-Quebec. The objective: to show the behavior ridiculous behind the wheel after having consumed pot and make people think about the risks of consumption.

“You can laugh as you want, but the steering wheel, this is no longer funny,” said Marco Harrison, director of the CAA-Quebec Foundation.

The organization intends to hammer home this message on all forums in the course of the next few months in order to destroy the myth that cannabis does not affect the ability to drive.

In fact, according to a survey of CAA dating back to September 2016, more than one young person out of four in Canada believes that cannabis does not affect driving, or even improves it.

“Glasses poteux”

As early as next month, CAA-Quebec will be visiting secondary schools to raise the awareness of students of secondary 5 with “glasses of poteux” that will give an idea of the effects of cannabis to the wearer.

“Our goal is that consumers realize that cannabis slows down the reaction time and decrease attention, and at the wheel, it increases the risk of collisions,” explained Mr. Harrison.

The effects on driving

The drug may, in particular, affect :

-coordination,

-the reaction time,

-attention,

-the ability to make decisions,

-the ability to estimate distances

Information portal about cannabis and driving