It’s become part of Christmas: the message not to drive over the holidays while impaired by booze or drugs.
Yet local MADD chapter president Amy St. Amour finds herself repeating it every year: plan ahead for a safe way to get home from wherever you’re celebrating.
“So whether that be a designated driver, a cab, an Uber, spend the night, whatever it takes that we don’t get behind the wheel while we’re impaired,” she recites.
Fourteen months into the era of legal marijuana in Canada, St. Amour says the only difference is that she’s seeing more statistics on its involvement in serious car crashes.
“It’s more measurable now,” she elaborates. “But it’s always been a part of our message and always will be.”