These ‘marijuana goggles’ are supposed to make you feel stoned

They've tried public service announcements. They've tried board games. They've even tried emojis. Now, the nation's substance abuse counselors have a new weapon in their fight to keep teens from smoking weed: "marijuana goggles."

New this year, the Fatal Vision® Marijuana Simulation Experience includes a set of green-tinted goggles designed to simulate "the distorted processing of visual information, loss of motor coordination, and slowed decision-making and reaction time resulting from recreational marijuana use." A promotional video for the product, manufactured by Innocorp, Ltd, promises that users will "experience the impairing effects of THC for themselves," referring to the main drug in marijuana.

Educating Teens about Marijuana Impairments from Innocorp Ltd on Vimeo.

"We have had a lot of interest in our Marijuana Simulation Experience,"Innocorp's Chief Operating Officer Deb Kusmec said in an email. "Our customers include community coalitions, traffic safety advocacy groups, law enforcement, schools and universities."

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