BALTIMORE — To help the state’s law enforcement and businesses prepare for the imminent legalization of recreational cannabis, volunteers smoked marijuana Wednesday afternoon as part of a multi-agency training program in Windsor Mill
Baltimore County Police and the Chesapeake Region Safety Council hosted the green lab — where medical cannabis patients got high — to give officers and workplace safety professionals firsthand experience determining the line between safe consumption and impairment.
The council has held 17 similar events in Maryland since 2019, said Debbie Jennings, the organization’s director of Highway Safety Programs. At Wednesday’s program, participants were offered Uber rides and asked to consume enough marijuana to become impaired before participating in practice field sobriety tests by law enforcement.
