New Smartphone App Warns You When You’re Too Stoned To Drive

A new app aims to help marijuana users determine whether they are too high to drive. Pictured, medical marijuana user Angel Raich sits in a car on April 20, 2007 in Missoula, Montana. Raich, 41, suffers from an inoperable brain tumor as well as several other medical conditions. Medical marijuana patients like Raich, who use cannabis regularly to treat ailments, could benefit from the new app.

BOULDER, Colorado -- Marc Silverman sits at an open-air table outside a busy coffee shop, tapping away at his iPhone as colorful images pop up on his screen. He’s not playing the latest time-wasting smartphone game. He’s engaged in something far more serious. The 59-year-old, dressed in a wrinkled T-shirt and flip-flops, is demonstrating a $5 app he developed with the help of the country’s most famous pro-marijuana organization to prevent people from getting behind the wheel while high.

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