I read a book (don’t remeber Title/Author) many years ago about the Carter Administration secretly working w/Big Tobacco to make a report on the assets & liabilities of legalisation.
The issue that stopped Carter from moving forward was that Law Enforcement had no accurate way of determining at a traffic stop if a driver was under the influence.
Technology has advanced so far since then, does anyone know if such a method exists today?
The problem with detecting pot use by test is that it stays in your system so much longer than it makes you high. You can tell via urine if somebody smoked pot in the last month, via hair sample for the entire time they’ve had that hair follicle, but are they high right now... That’s the “magic” from a law enforcement perspective of alcohol, when it’s in your blood it’s effecting you when it’s not it’s not, doesn’t have much in the way of non-buzz making traces.