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Massachusetts RMV adds cannabis warnings to driver's ed classes

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The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles and the state's Cannabis Control Commission jointly announced the addition of a cannabis-impaired driving curriculum to the driver's education classes teens must take before getting a license.

A first for a state where recreational marijuana is legal

Massachusetts will be the first state with legal recreational marijuana to educate teenagers on the dangers and consequences of cannabis-impaired driving.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles announced today an updated curriculum for driver’s education classes.

It will be taught to about 52,000 young drivers per year in about 700 driving schools across the state, the Registry said.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Registrar Colleen Ogilvie.

The educational video can be viewed here:

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.