Dr. Ashley Brooks-Russel, Cannabis Impaired Driving and Questions About Tolerance

February 2021

The Institute of Cannabis Research’s monthly webinar for February 2021 featured Dr. Ashley Brooks-Russell from The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Brooks-Russell is an assistant professor and Director of the Program for Injury Prevention, Education and Research Program at the Colorado School of Public Health, CU Anschutz. She completed her Ph.D. in Health Behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH). Her recent work has focused on cannabis use and the association of policy changes with changes in cannabis use and related outcomes. She presented a webinar titled “Cannabis Impaired Driving and Questions About Tolerance”.

Feb 2021 – Dr. Ashley Brooks Russell, Cannabis Impaired Driving and Questions About Tolerance

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