12-06-2020, 12:06 PM
(12-06-2020, 11:06 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: Another concern would be detecting real-time levels in a person’s system. Just like alcohol, you wouldn’t want people driving while high.
This.
So far it has been difficult to devise a field sobriety test for pot, and there is a lot of debate over what the legal limit should be in the blood stream to justify a DUI conviction.
But right now the marijuana laws have become a joke. In some places it is still illegal yet people are advertising it for sale. In DC it is legal to possess but illegal to sale, so I saw where a shop was selling T-shirts for $25 and giving a free gram of weed to each buyer. Here in Tennessee CBD with miniscule levels of THC are legal, but that is like saying beer with 1% alcohol is not beer. No matter how low the level is, if you drink enough of it you will still get drunk. Even the DAs I work with are saying the laws can't be enforced so they should just legalize it.
Pot is not harmless. Employers at certain jobs will be justified in barring their employees from using it. And high levels of THC impair people enough that they should not drive. But overall it should be treated like alcohol. Legal but regulated.
