AAA Study: There's no scientific basis for laws regulating marijuana and driving

[Robrites]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Six states that allow marijuana use legal tests to determine driving while impaired by the drug that have no scientific basis, according to a study by the nation's largest automobile club that calls for scrapping those laws.
The study commissioned by AAA's safety foundation said it's not possible to set a blood-test threshold for THC, the chemical in marijuana that makes people high, that can reliably determine impairment.
Yet the laws in five of the six states automatically presume a driver guilty if that person tests higher than the limit, and not guilty if it's lower.
As a result, drivers who are unsafe may be going free while others may be wrongly convicted, the foundation said.
The foundation recommends replacing the laws with ones that rely on specially trained police officers to determine if a driver is impaired, backed up by a test for the presence of THC rather than a specific threshold. The officers are supposed to screen for dozens of indicators of drug use, from pupil dilation and tongue color to behavior.
The foundation's recommendation to scrap the laws in Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington comes as legislatures in several more states consider adopting similar laws.


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[MJPassion]

Denvers 9 News did an experiment showing this to be true a few years ago.

 

[aridbud]

Saw that on the national news this morning...CBS. Thanks, Robrites for posting.

 

[stoned-trout]

on the morning news here in san diego now....yeehaw...and I agree with aaa...in cali they are gonna prob just go with the cops judgement.. then get a blood test after arrest too....so basically any cop can just say your high and arrest you with no tool for measurement of imparement...so if ya smell like weed and they don't like you expect a dui...AND YET AGAIN THE MAN WILL BE MAKING BIG $$$$ off weed..with legalization they make money either way

 

[Limeygreen]

Cognitive tests would be the best but when it's up to judgement of the officer bias is always there, the worst I have seen is someone thought they were driving but were sitting with the engine running in park in a parking lot, Romulan was killer.

 

[Amynamous]

Seems like the burden of proof is on state, and blood level does not equal impairment.