Study Indicates Current Marijuana And Driving Laws Have No Scientific Foundation

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.

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TomM - 5/11/2016 12:37:19 PM

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Under the influence - and Impairment are two different things.

The fact is - it should be ILLEGAL to smoke pot and drive - regardless of the level of "impairment".

PUGPROUD - 5/11/2016 6:46:43 PM

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Ditto above!

MDarringer - 5/11/2016 8:01:30 PM

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The headline in effect implies that it is safe to drive stoned. Irresponsible headline.

skytop - 5/12/2016 8:44:13 AM

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Marijuana impairment is dangerous and possibly lethal to those on or near the road.