NYC taxi commission to stop testing cabbies for marijuana

[JacksinPA]

NYC taxi commission to stop testing cabbies for marijuana

The agency cautioned drivers, “While the use of marijuana is now legal for adults, it is still the law that TLC-licensed Drivers must be sober when they operate a vehicle.”

nypost.com

With marijuana now legal in New York, the city Taxi & Limousine Commission will no longer test cabbies and livery drivers for cannabis.

“Due to the change in the law, going forward, the TLC will no longer test for marijuana in required annual drug tests,” the agency wrote Friday in a memo to licensees obtained by The Post.

“Big mistake,” Fernando Mateo, founder and spokesman of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, told The Post. “It’s irresponsible.”
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Weed & driving motor vehicles don't mix. It's very risky.

 

[Visbek]

NYC taxi commission to stop testing cabbies for marijuana

The agency cautioned drivers, “While the use of marijuana is now legal for adults, it is still the law that TLC-licensed Drivers must be sober when they operate a vehicle.”

nypost.com

With marijuana now legal in New York, the city Taxi & Limousine Commission will no longer test cabbies and livery drivers for cannabis.

“Due to the change in the law, going forward, the TLC will no longer test for marijuana in required annual drug tests,” the agency wrote Friday in a memo to licensees obtained by The Post.

“Big mistake,” Fernando Mateo, founder and spokesman of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, told The Post. “It’s irresponsible.”
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Weed & driving motor vehicles don't mix. It's very risky.

Huh?

They aren't saying "you can drive while high."

DWI laws have not been revoked. It's still illegal to drive while high.

Cannabis can be detected in your body for up to 30 days after consumption. That means that a driver can be 100% sober every second he is driving, but still fail an annual drug test for cannabis. Thus, it makes sense to me to stop annual tests for cannabis.

 

[Mr Person]

If a driver is actually impaired then he will be caught. There is absolutely no reason to include it in a drug test, other than to pursue the hare-brained and self-defeating War on Drugs for the sake of pursuing it (usually so that one can pat oneself on the back for being super-virtuous).

You can detect metabolites for up to 28 days in urine, much longer in blood. Getting high tonight does not make you impaired tomorrow.

 

[Lursa]

If that test is only once a year anyway, what's it actually protecting? Knowing they'll be tested, a cabbie can just abstain for a month before.

 

[nvflash]

There are still Taxi drivers?

 

[jamesrage]

NYC taxi commission to stop testing cabbies for marijuana

The agency cautioned drivers, “While the use of marijuana is now legal for adults, it is still the law that TLC-licensed Drivers must be sober when they operate a vehicle.”

nypost.com

With marijuana now legal in New York, the city Taxi & Limousine Commission will no longer test cabbies and livery drivers for cannabis.

“Due to the change in the law, going forward, the TLC will no longer test for marijuana in required annual drug tests,” the agency wrote Friday in a memo to licensees obtained by The Post.

“Big mistake,” Fernando Mateo, founder and spokesman of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, told The Post. “It’s irresponsible.”
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Weed & driving motor vehicles don't mix. It's very risky.

If states are going to legalize marijunana for recreational use then it should be treated no different than alcohol. THC can be detected in your at least up to 30 days after use. So a test doesn't prove intoxication. As far as I know no drug test can prove someone is intoxicated on marijuana at the time the test as taken. We don't punish cab drivers because they got drunk on their days off or had some beers after work.So why should we do the same for other legal substances?