{"id":130651,"date":"2016-05-13T06:54:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/busting-pot-smoking-drivers.html"},"modified":"2016-05-16T17:15:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T23:15:51","slug":"busting-pot-smoking-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/busting-pot-smoking-drivers.html","title":{"rendered":"Busting pot-smoking drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t think anyone would disagree that stopping people who are &quot;too high to drive&quot; is a bad thing. The problem is, it appears that the correlation between THC level in the blood and actual impairment is too loose to be useful. Unlike measuring blood alcohol level, detectable THC levels don&#39;t necessarily match up with inability to perform field sobriety tests.<\/p>\n<p>That makes proper detection of stoned drivers more difficult, but it also means that states (like Colorado) who have passed a simple THC level test for citation or arrest are going to need to rethink their approach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/05\/legal-limits-for-marijuana-dui-are-arbitrary-and-unsupported-by-science\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/-TayK-eibu87gpkDzsUxKNslP6-2QIXxvAJJBLnDojGKiBdzrpoRHKKxeYoURsI54Qq_l0Iigoog3Vs7bdQ1XekxuXUdc9E_AbGW7m7miuBDsQ-N_rUWP25e1uOhLSnifwWdQrn7duWR=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2016\/05\/legal-limits-for-marijuana-dui-are-arbitrary-and-unsupported-by-science\/'>Blood THC levels after smoking pot are useless in defining &ldquo;too high to drive&rdquo;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nBetter metrics needed as study finds increase in fatal crashes involving weed.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/XTCM2fbKuR5'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#39;t think anyone would disagree that stopping people who are &quot;too high to drive&quot; is a bad thing. The problem is, it appears that the correlation between THC level in the blood and actual impairment is too loose to be useful. Unlike measuring blood alcohol level, detectable THC levels don&#39;t necessarily match up with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/busting-pot-smoking-drivers.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Busting pot-smoking drivers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41378,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/09\/the-variability-of-pot-munchables.html","url_meta":{"origin":130651,"position":0},"title":"The Variability of Pot Munchables","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 9-Mar-14 9:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that marijuana is recreationally legal here in Colorado, that doesn't just mean smoking. 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