Taxing pot could become a political toking point

[Rashaddd 5,000+ posts]

Cops suspicion of driving while high maybe?

They don't have that now?

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

The point is, cops use field sobriety test to take in people under the influence of alcohol. If you pass the test then they don't take you in. Same thing as weed, if you are able to complete the test given to you then you are capable of operating a motor vehicle. That what the test is designed to test, your motor skills/capabilities. The cop is not going to let you go if he feels like your unable to drive. And he's not going to take you in if you are. Like cops really throw sober people into the soak tank.

What if you happen to run across a cop that is anti-weed and decides you fail a roadside even if you did fine? If you think all cops are 100% honest you need to think again.

Not saying a proper test wouldn't be helpful now, just saying it would be alot more important if weed was legal.

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

You already have cops pulling people over and planting on them. You honestly want to let cops arrest you for "suspicion" of intoxication, and then get nailed for cannabis from a week ago?

When you let the cop be the judge (rather than an objective test), you're opening yourself up to a lot of trouble.

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

To jump into action with no clear plan and saying we will catch the details along the way is alot like going to Iraq for the wmd's in a hurry...sometimes that line of thinking just doesn't pay

^^^^^^^^

Once a again, this is for legalizing it right now. Assuming a road side test doesn't become available. We have amps the size as phone books putting out 10k+rms, and you are telling me we can't develop a test?
As I stated before.

"Your absolutely right. But it's all about money, just like stocks the developer is waiting for it to get hot to sell it. So they are waiting for when it get's legalized and state contracts to be handed out to those to be the first to develop it."

 

[Rashaddd 5,000+ posts]

http://stash.norml.org/support-california-assembly-bill-390-the-marijuana-control-regulation-and-education-act/

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

There are hard set limits for DUI though and tolerance doesn't matter, should DUID be any different? Are all alcoholics better drivers than "novice" drinkers?
Roadsides are not hard evidence, even though used. Without a quantifiable test for DUID/weed, reliance will be on roadsides and any suspected high driver will get charged and probably convicted.

This.

If the purpose is to stop intoxicated people from driving, then the quantity of the substance really shouldn't matter...only the level of intoxication (I mean physically not chemically). The problem is objectively defining such a point.
Those are both questions I can't honestly answer. To me, that is the biggest objection remaining for the legalization, because I cannot think of a framework in which we can prevent people from driving when high. I know there has been some development in testing systems, but this is still a big question mark.

Up here, you can't even search the vehicle if you smell cannabis when they roll down the window.

Yes.

That's honestly my only objection to legalization as well, for two reason:
1. I don't want a bunch of hippies thinking its ok to drive high

2. I don't want a bunch of hippies who got high last night unfairly getting a duid for driving today because a cop thought they were stoned but has no quantifiable data to prove so, just some roadsides

This.

It's really funny because less than a week ago my friend and I were discussing this exact topic... and I brought up the same points... and he agreed as well.

He smokes cannabis every single day... but agreed that objective testing needs to be developed...

nG

 

[mazdakid 5,000+ posts]

Your dumb. I can smoke bowl after bowl blunt after blunt and drive fine. Can you drive fine after taking shot after shot drinking beer after beer? No cause you would get sick and puke. Have you ever got sick and puked from smoking?

You probably smoke every day. Many times a day. I guarantee if you stop for 2 weeks, and smoked a blunt the next day, you wouldn't be able to drive perfectly fine.

 

[mazzasec 5,000+ posts]