It is a high time now that Canadian Government should adopt zero tolerance towards drug driving. A Canadian research that has been published in the British Medical Journal has raised concerns about the increasing accidents due drug driving.

As per their data, 18% who were killed in road accidents were the ones who were driving under the intoxication of drugs. The study leader Mark Asbridge, who is an epidemiologist with his team at Dalhousie University, reached to the above conclusion after assessing the observational studies.

People who consume drugs or smoke them just three hours before starting the journey are at a considerable risk to lose their life. Henceforth, they have asked the government to take stern actions against the drug habit.

Deputy Chief Executive at road safety charity Brake Julie Townsend said that like drinking and driving is an issue like that drug driving is becoming a huge concern and the government should make it a top priority to curb it. Except 18% rises in deaths due to drug deaths, 540 impairment cases have also taken place due to it.

Asbridge told that they assessed observational studies in which they took cars, sedan, sports cars, vans, heavy trucks, lorry and buses and motorcycles. They looked at the main collisions between one or more vehicles on a road due to the consumption of cannabis.

After assessing all the studies, they found that driver puts his life in risk if he chooses to drive within three hours of consuming cannabis.

Duncan Vernon, who is a road safety manager at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), said, "This adds to the argument that a system needs to be put in place to monitor the number of serious and fatal accidents where impairment from illegal drugs was a contributory factor, so that appropriate action can be taken to prevent them”.