Zero-Tolerance DUI Would Ensnare 'Sober' Med Patients

Marijuana Lingers For A Month; Zero-Tolerance DUI
Would Ensnare 'Sober' Med Patients
There have been a few attempts to establish zero-tolerance DUI limits for weed smokers who get behind the wheel. The latest proposal by state Sen. Lou Correa would give you a DUI even if you had a trace of pot in your system. The problem with that is virtually all regular medical marijuana patients would be subject to DUIs, because pot stays with your for weeks even if you're otherwise sober. That much was laid out ... continued...

Cannabis Users Are Safer Drivers Than Non-Users
New Study Shows
In a recent study, 4AIQ.org a national quote provider for online car insurance quotes, cites a strong correlation between traffic-related accidents and marijuana use. The study, which looks at statistics regarding accidents, traffic violations, and insurance prices, seeks to dispel the thought that “driving while stoned” is dangerous.

In the study, 4AIQ.org points out that the only significant effect that marijuana has on operating a motor vehicle is slower driving. 4AIQ.org says, while referencing a study by the US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), that driving slower “is arguably a positive thing” and that driving under the influence of marijuana “might even make you a safer driver.” A similar study by the NHTSA shows that drivers with THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) in their system have accident responsibility rates below that of drug free drivers.

Ass.Woman Torre' Drudged Driving Bill

President Ronald Reagan, at the urging of then Vice President George Bush, appointed Carlton Turner as the White House Drug (czar) Advisor in 1981. Soon after Drugczar Carlton Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty. Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into high-tech corporate security after his disgrace, Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing. jackherer.com

Cannabis And Road Safety: An Outline Of The Research Studies To Examine The Effects Of Cannabis On Driving Skills And On Actual Driving Performance

"Professor Hall considers cannabis's contribution to danger on the roads to be very small; in his view the major effect of cannabis use on driving may be in amplifying the impairments caused by alcohol."
UK Lord's Report, 1998

☛Cannabis Campaigner's Guide to Cannabis & Driving

☛Schaffer Library References on Drugs and Driving

"As someone who spent 35 years wearing a police uniform, I've come to believe that hundreds of thousands of law-enforcement officers commit felony perjury every year testifying about drug arrests."
- Joseph McNamara,
former San Jose Chief of Police

Cannabis use and Driving
U.S. traffic fatalities are at a record low despite drivers traveling farther than they did in 2008, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study of traffic injuries and fatalities in 2009 found that 33,808 people were killed in vehicular accidents, which is a decline of 9.7 percent from 2008’s figures. In fact, you’d have to go all the way back to 1950 to find a year when fewer people were killed.

US National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration Reports
by Robbe, NHTSA
☛Marijuana And Actual Driving Performance -,1993
☛Marijuana Use And Driving -,1994
☛Marijuana And Actual Driving Performance -,1999
☛Marijuana & Alcohol Combined Increase Impairment -,1999

"Drivers under the influence of marijuana retain insight in their performance and will compensate where they can, for example, by slowing down or increasing effort. As a consequence, THC's adverse effects on driving performance appear relatively small."
Robbe, NHTSA 1993

One of marijuana's greatest advantages is remarkable safety

"One of marihuana's greatest advantages as a medicine is its remarkable safety. It has little effect on major physiological functions. There is no known case of a lethal overdose; Marihuana is also far less addictive and far less subject to abuse than many drugs now used as muscle relaxants, hypnotics, and analgesics. The ostensible indifference of physicians should no longer be used as a justification for keeping this medicine in the shadows."
Journal of the American Medical Association,
June 21, 1995. Commentary. p. 1874-1875.

☛Paranoid Pot Smokers Drive More Carefully
☛Alcohol Impairs Driving More Than Marijuana
☛Cannabis May Make You a Safer Driver

Crancer Study,
Washington Department of Motor Vehicles
"Simulated driving scores for subjects experiencing a normal social "high" and the same subjects under control conditions are not significantly different. However, there are significantly more errors for alcohol intoxicated than for control subjects"

Marijuana Not a Factor in Driving Accidents March 29, 1999
The safety hazards of smoking marijuana and driving are overrated,
says U of T researcher Alison Smiley.
Recent research into impairment and traffic accident reports from several countries shows that marijuana taken alone in moderate amounts does not significantly increase a driver's risk of causing an accident -- unlike alcohol, says Smiley, an adjunct professor in the department of mechanical and industrial engineering . While smoking marijuana does impair driving ability, it does not share alcohol's effect on judgment. Drivers on marijuana remain aware of their impairment, prompting them to slow down and drive more cautiously to compensate, she says.

☛Feds Need One Million Joints

"THC's adverse effects on driving performance appear relatively small"
U.S. Department of Transportation,
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(DOT HS 808 078), Final Report, November 1993

NORML's Weekly News Bulletin -- September 29, 2005
Positive Marijuana Result
Not Associated With Auto Crash Culpability
September 29, 2005 - Baltimore, MD, USA
Marijuana use, as indicated by the presence of cannabis metabolites, is not associated with crash culpability among injured drivers, according to data presented at the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.
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FIT 2000 non-invasive 30-second impairment test.
"FIT 2000 is directly relevant to employers interested in high quality, exacting, detail work, as well as general safety and quality, without violating the privacy of the employee'

Liquid Drugs and Driving is the #1 cause of death
College presidents from across the country are hoping a little sarcasm will go a long way toward curbing binge drinking among college students.

☛The Cost Of Alcohol!
☛Antidrug Ad Blitz Criticized For Omitting Alcohol!

By age 40, about 20% of all males in the USA have received a DUI conviction. Of course, some men have received MORE than their allotted share, such as Vice President Richard (Dick) Cheney. Here are copies of President Bush’s 1976 DUI in Maine, followed by Cheney’s DUI records of two back-to-back DUI's in Wyoming.

☛DUBYA's Driving Record
☛CONFIRMED: Dubya not allowed into Canada?
☛MADD Polls Presidential Candidates 2000
☛3 strikes and your out Mr Bush!