REVELIO’s Unexposed Reference Group Was Designed to Track Changes Across Repeated Drives
The REVELIO protocol uses repeated drives in an unexposed reference group to help distinguish cannabis-related changes from learning, fatigue and habituation. A change after dosing in the exposed group alone would not answer that comparison.
The design includes a time structure
All participants are scheduled for a sober baseline and subsequent driving sessions. The reference group repeats driving without cannabis administration. The analysis plan includes session-specific models for the approximately one-to-two, three-to-four and five-to-six-hour windows, as well as within-person and between-group comparisons.
The reference group addresses a plausible alternative
Practice may improve some measures, while fatigue or repeated exposure to the track may change others. The reference group can provide information about those changes under the study conditions. It does not establish that every time-related influence is identical in exposed and unexposed participants.
The publication reports a plan
No completed time-course, false-positive rate or detection threshold follows from the protocol. Its reference design can support evaluation of whether sensor changes are cannabis-specific within the experiment. It cannot establish how a future model distinguishes cannabis from all other causes of altered driving. The useful contribution is a defined comparison for repeated-session effects, with the actual results and broader specificity still awaiting evaluation.
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