'The Drug Whisperer': Drivers arrested while stone cold sober

ThoughtEx. said:

I bet that training involves a numbers game. If you pull x amount of people over, y amount will be high on marijuana. So it's best to arrest z amount of people, because if people see how likely they are to go to jail for driving under the influence of marijuana. They won't do it.

They think this overt zealous type of police work is a deterrent. And that if they say a month long training course can do something addiction workers go to years of school for with more accuracy than a urine test (30 days for marijuana). That's them counting on the CSI effect. People believe the police have more capability than they do from shows like CSI.

The legal limit for alcohol is .08, meaning you can have a beer or two depending on your body weight and not considered impaired. It's much the same for marijuana. Depending on weight and time since last smoked, the effects could have worn off in as little as 3 hours.

Someone who is impaired by marijuana, wouldn't be able to pass a field sobriety test geared towards marijuana. Which would involved shining the flashlight in the eyes and conducting a test much like your eye doctor does when he has you follow his finger.

It's not that hard to come up with a simple solution to Marijuana DUI, law enforcement is throwing a hissy because seizures from marijuana busts are a sizeable part of their budget they don't want to lose when the laws inevitably change. If they make a big stink about how difficult it is to detect impaired drivers, it might worry people enough to hold out. Here's a question, if it's so difficult to detect impairment, is the person even impaired? There's vegged out on the couch can't move high (Impaired), and just got a head change high (undetectable).

I equate head change to 1 or 2 beers and don't consider that impaired. I support a field sobriety test, but think medical professionals should design it. And I think there should be a legal limit set.

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Mr Person said:

He needs to be fired immediately.

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