ANN ARBOR, MI (MPRN)-- Michigan voters will decide Tuesday if they want to legalize recreational marijuana.
There are conflicting views on whether legal weed will make streets more dangerous.
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, collision claims are the most frequent kind of claims insurers receive.
Institute spokesman Russ Rader says they recently studied the frequency of collision claims in four states with retail recreational marijuana sales.
“If the states where pot is legal, crash risk changed and it went up,” he says.
But pro-marijuana groups say the study is flawed, since it compared legal weed states with large urban areas with non-legal states without large cities.
A different study by the American Public Health Association found three years after legalization there were no statistical differences in motor vehicle crash fatality rates for Washington and Colorado compared with similar states without legal marijuana.
