Q&A: New research gains ground in detecting recent cannabis use

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What is the issue you are trying to address in the workplace?

And what about after a motor vehicle accident?

Can you talk about the driving simulation study you and your colleagues conducted to compare daily and non-daily cannabis users?

Can you share the highlights of the published study that followed?

  • 98% specificity (which means an only 2% false positive rate)
  • 93% sensitivity (which means the test will fail to detect recent use only 7% of the time)
  • 96% accuracy (which combines the two rates) for identifying recent cannabis smoking.

What’s next for you and your colleagues?

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