During a recent Senate hearing, Jonathan Morrison, President Trump’s nominee to lead the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), pledged to significantly intensify public awareness efforts around marijuana-impaired driving—as more states legalize cannabis. Morrison agreed with Sen. John Hickenlooper on the urgent need for a uniform national standard to measure marijuana impairment, akin to existing alcohol blood alcohol concentration thresholds, to aid law enforcement and enhance legal clarity. He emphasized a concerning gap in public perception: many people don’t recognize that marijuana can impair driving skills. If confirmed, Morrison intends to partner with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy to strengthen messaging and invest in detection technologies to help reduce impaired-driving crashes.

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