Posted on 01/25/2013 5:34:36 AM PST by wolfman23601
A plan is in the works to set a limit for people driving while under the influence of marijuana, and this time lawmakers say they’ll get it done.
There’s a lot of pressure on lawmakers after legalizing pot. As the number of users grows, there is growing concern the number of people driving under the influence will as well. In 2011, the most recent data available, 13 percent of deadly crashes in Colorado involved pot.
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Yes, that was one of the big assurances pro-pot advocates gave - that it didn’t impair driving.
The best part about the bill is that without limits, it’s nearly impossible to prove stoned driving.
Now they have legal pot, so they need limits, so it just got a lot harder for the Obama voters to drive.
LOL.
Of course being stoned impairs driving, only an idiot would argue otherwise. HOWEVER, that 13% number is likely crap, as the test for THC is a qualitative, NOT quantitative, its YES or NO for the PRESENCE of THC. You could have used days earlier and still tested positive. Imagine a test for alcohol that only showed you had a drink sometime in the last week, THEN imagine the “alcohol related” accident rate....
The problem with pot is that is stays in your system long after the psychoactive element (the buzz) has worn off. Thus, traditional chemical testing is unfair. A person could smoke a joint in a log cabin in the woods, miles from a car, and four days later get pulled over, test positive, and catch a DUI when there was no mental impairment.
Anybody who didn’t see this coming is an idiot.....or high.
See my tagline...
What could possibly go wrong?
Agree, they need to come up with a better way of testing to determine if one is impaired on the spot.
Of course there are always field tests for vision and coordination. They can’t prove that marijuana is in fact the inhibitor, but they can prove DUI.
“The problem with pot is that is stays in your system long after the psychoactive element (the buzz) has worn off. Thus, traditional chemical testing is unfair. A person could smoke a joint in a log cabin in the woods, miles from a car, and four days later get pulled over, test positive, and catch a DUI when there was no mental impairment.”
I’ve worked with people who smoked on the weekends and you could tell at work, days later, that they were not up to par. I think that just having it in their system affected their judgment, even though they weren’t stoned. Also, long term users acted like idiots. I don’t know if they started out that way, but they weren’t the workers I would promote. Anybody who uses pot is covering up some mental issue. It’s called “self-treatment.” It’s just like alcoholism but a different drug.
That’s a great idea. Instead of a breathalyzer to show what’s affecting you now, let’s test potential drunk drivers for EtG, and see if they’ve been drinking in the past three days or so.
If the cop pulls you over and asks you to roll down your window and a big cloud of smoke billows out, you probably are driving stoned.
What they’re gonna do is offer you a tray of brownies and how many you eat will reveal how stoned you are...
Who was it who said,
“A drunk driver will blow right past a Stop sign.”
“A stoned driver will sit there & wait for it to turn green.”
Also, if you segregated out that 13%, how many of THOSE involved cell phones or texting at the time?
There is ZERO question in my mind that cell phones are the biggest contributor to traffic accidents EVER!
But people just do it. They might as well be driving down the road doing a crossword puzzle.
Blindfolded.
Yep, just like drunk driving. That’s worked so well.
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