There was a bill passed by Clinton that nationalized the limit at .08. Also below the age of 21 it is set at 0. Above .08 there are varying additional penalty limits. Outside the US the limit also varies as well as the degree of penalties.
Funny that. It is federally forced even though it is not within their powers.
CDC is trying to push it down to 0.05
Mormons want 0.03
And Sweden is 0.01
It is incredibly low in every state. The limit in Texas was .12 before FedGov bullied Texas into changing it.
“Nonsense, it’s the same limit in every state.”
It’s still an incredibly low limit, not based on facts.
Funny thing about the whole “legal limit”:
Originally it was “at the officer’s discretion”.
Then the AMA came out with a based in science level of 0.15% People understood the reasoning and accepted this as a logical decision, and over time the number of arrests per year dropped.
This was then arbitrarily lowered to 0.10% because the number of arrests had fallen off precipitously. With the new accepted standard, the number of DUI cases soared! OH NOES, A CRISIS!!
Once again over the course of a few years the number of “impaired” arrests dropped off, and the “legal limit” was lowered to 0.08% Again the number of stops and arrests has fallen off considerably. Just in time for:
Where I live, that bar has been lowered yet again, and now the “legal limit” for BAC is (for all intents and purposes) 0.05% Remember, this is ONE THIRD of the scientifically established standard
The entire “MADD/DUI” situation has little to do with actual road safety and a LOT to do with conditioning the public into constantly tightening regulations and a cash grab for the courts and lawyers.