Klein Buendel, Inc.
The new recreational marijuana markets are contributing to polysubstance-impaired driving and other harms, especially when marijuana is used in combination with alcohol, by selling marijuana to obviously-intoxicated customers. In this study, the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce the risk of marijuana sales to obviously-intoxicated customers will be tested in the state-licensed recreational marijuana market in Oregon, one of the first states to ban such sales. The intervention will combine efforts by state regulators to increase deterrence of the state law prohibiting marijuana sales to obviously-intoxicated customers with training of store personnel to recognize signs of intoxication and refuse sales. It will also include testing the rate at which visibly intoxicated customers are refused alcohol at nearby establishments that sell alcohol either on-site or off-site
The new recreational marijuana markets are contributing to morbidity and mortality due to marijuana- and polysubstance-impaired driving and other harms by selling a social intoxicant (i.e., marijuana) to already intoxicated customers. Impairment increases when marijuana is combined with alcohol, making driving particularly risky and also contributing to other injuries and violence. In recreational marijuana markets, deterrence efforts to reduce impaired driving directed at drivers face challenges due to dispute over THC levels in per se laws and lack of valid field sobriety tests. An alternati…
Inclusion Criteria: * Recreational Marijuana Stores: * Located in the greater Portland, Oregon metropolitan area or Salem, Oregon metro area * Hold an active recreational marijuana license from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) as of July 1, 2022 * A retail store that sells recreational marijuana products * Store is open for business * Have a smart phone, tablet computer, or personal computer with Internet access * Owner or manager consent for store to participate * Store personnel: * Own or employed at a state-licensed recreational marijuana store in greater Portlan…
The intervention is a combination of a policy training and access to an in-depth training program to teach marijuana vendors the skills needed to refuse intoxicated customers
The active control training that is already provided to marijuana vendors by the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission
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