Cannabis goggles , "first experience"

Simulating the effects of cannabis and hashish

According to recent studies, 30% of today's teenagers have smoked marijuana. Around 4% of adults smoke roughly once a year, and around 1% are heavy users. Smoking marijuana can impair the ability to perform simple tasks, reducing concentration and coordination, slowing reaction times, and causing short-term memory loss. Smoking marijuana can also cause nausea, which these glasses simulate.

Alcovista@ Cannabis simulation glasses are an excellent training tool for young people and adults, helping with your training activities.

Alcovista@ Cannabis simulation glasses will help you explain to your workshop participants the psychological and physiological effects of cannabis and hashish on the body.

Drug use has physiological, psychological and social consequences.

These consequences vary depending on how the body metabolises the drug.

Cannabis

Cannabis users often believe they are safer while under its effects because they drive more slowly. However, this also means the driver avoids tasks that require effort. It also distorts the perception of time and distance, so other vehicles appear closer than they actually are.

The specific effects of driving under the influence of cannabis are:

• Slow driving
• Avoiding driving tasks that require effort
• Affects the ability to control the car safely
• Increased reaction and decision time
• Inaccurate judgement of time and distance
• Inability to maintain a steady course
• Poor control of lateral position
• Reduced alertness

People often take more than one drug or mix them with alcohol. For example, a stimulant such as cocaine to "perk up" after taking alcohol or cannabis. In fact, combining drugs can have a drastic and unpredictable effect on the user's state and on driving.