Knew this would happen once states started opening the flood gates on pot.
Report: Deadly crashes involving drugs on the rise
Cannabis isn't a "drug". False title.
Matter of fact if you read your own link it mentions increasing incidence of alcohol and opioids, both of which are drugs.
OP never said it was a drug. Are you high or something?
Check post number one.
I dunno, maybe reading is a lost art.
On you apparently. Try again. (hint - the whole gateway theory)
Gateway's been discredited since at least the LaGuardia report. There's nobody left alive that would try to sell that shit.
Point stands.
Besides which, the OP's time reference is "once states started opening the flood gates on pot". When do you think alcohol and opioids were invented?
Some research suggests that marijuana use is likely to precede use of other licit and illicit substances46 and the development of addiction to other substances. For instance, a study using longitudinal data from the National Epidemiological Study of Alcohol Use and Related Disorders found that adults who reported marijuana use during the first wave of the survey were more likely than adults who did not use marijuana to develop an alcohol use disorder within 3 years; people who used marijuana and already had an alcohol use disorder at the outset were at greater risk of their alcohol use disorder worsening.47 Marijuana use is also linked to other substance use disorders including nicotine addiction.
Is marijuana a gateway drug?