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Driving + Trace of Marijuana = DUI

By Lawrence Taylor

In the This-Is-Getting-Ridiculous department: Blood Test for Marijuana Unreliable for DUI Penalty Lexington, KY.  Jan. 17  - Once again, a bill that seeks to punish prior use of a controlled substance with an automatic DUI conviction is before the Kentucky legislature. Like its predecessors, Senate Bill5 cleverly attempts to bootstrap an ill-advised rule regarding all drugs onto a rule created for the purpose of measuring alcohol impairment. Under SB5, a driver who tests positive for traces of marijuana can be convicted of "driving under the influence" even if that driver is unimpaired at the time of arrest. While such laws do little to actually make roadways safer, they do send many innocent people to jail and saddle them with criminal records for the rest of their lives...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on February 21, 2009 (boomark / email).