# 105

Washington Post reports that 2015 data indicates that alcohol is involved in less than half of deaths in vehicular accidents and that other substances combined, exceed alcohol.

The below article relates to deaths in Motor Vehicle Accidents for 2015.  In addition to marking a major shift - in that alcohol was not found as a factor for more than half of such deaths - the article indicates that Marijuana/THC was found in 33% of such deaths and that, in Colorado where THC is lawful, the percentage approaches 50%.

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/04/drugs_now_more_likely_to_cause.html