{"id":1136,"date":"2012-05-17T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=15825"},"modified":"2012-05-17T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T07:33:00","slug":"proposed-marijuana-dui-law-in-colorado-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/proposed-marijuana-dui-law-in-colorado-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Marijuana DUI Law in Colorado Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/proposed-marijuana-dui-law-in-colorado-fails\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dui-checkpoint.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"dui checkpoint\" title=\"dui checkpoint\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15829\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/proposed-marijuana-dui-law-in-colorado-fails\/attachment\/dui-checkpoint\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15829\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dui-checkpoint-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>One of the major hurdles in the marijuana reform movement is how to enforce driving laws.\u00a0 With alcohol, there is a clear system that most people understand with tests that are not likely to turn up false positives.\u00a0 Testing drivers for recent marijuana use, however, has proved to be much more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Recently<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/colorado-lawmakers-appear-set-to-enact-marijuana-dui-law\/\" target=\"_blank\"> marijuana.net ran a story<\/a> about a proposed law in Colorado that would set a limit as to how much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/vchemlib\/mim\/bristol\/thc\/thc_text.htm\" target=\"_blank\">THC <\/a>could legally be permitted in a drivers system. \u00a0Initially the bill to regulate marijuana DUI was passed by Colorado lawmakers by one vote, 18-17, two weeks ago.\u00a0 However, politics is often unpredictable and one of the bills major proponents, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancyspence.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Spence<\/a> was unable to make it to Tuesday\u2019s vote.\u00a0 She was out of state attending a grandchild\u2019s birthday party.\u00a0 Ms. Spence was urged to return quickly by her constituents but she expected the vote to take place a day later.\u00a0 Everyone voted identically as they did two weeks prior, except for Nancy Spence\u2019s absent vote which killed the legislation and resulted in a 17-17 tie.<\/p>\n<p>Critics and opponents have long been seeking a system to test if marijuana patients are suitable to take the wheel.\u00a0 Nationally, it would probably result in even more support (though<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/05\/16\/poll-74-percent-want-end-to-medical-marijuana-raids\/\" target=\"_blank\"> over 70% of Americans<\/a> already support medical marijuana) and maybe even by the government if safety measures were taken to ensure driver safety.\u00a0 However, the proposed law in Colorado seemed to be set entirely too low.\u00a0 It would appear that patients would face penalties who were not under the influence of marijuana.\u00a0 The 5 nanogram limit, as stated by Colorado lawmaker<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patsteadman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Pat Steadman<\/a> may not work because \u201cSome of these people wake up in the morning and roll out of bed at 5 nanograms.\u201d\u00a0 In response to the vote yesterday, he mentioned that he thought the bill would do nothing to make the roads safer.<\/p>\n<p>While the future of the industry may be very much intertwined with a standard system for analyzing marijuana DUI, we are pleased to see that vulnerable and innocent patients will not be arrested even when they are not impaired to operate a motor vehicle.\u00a0 This law will likely come up again as it has failed 3x already.\u00a0 Hopefully a more commonsense approach is utilized for what appears to be an inevitable law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dui-checkpoint.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"dui checkpoint\" title=\"dui checkpoint\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15829\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/proposed-marijuana-dui-law-in-colorado-fails\/attachment\/dui-checkpoint\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15829\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dui-checkpoint-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>One of the major hurdles in the marijuana reform movement is how to enforce driving laws.\u00a0 With alcohol, there is a clear system that most people understand with tests that are not likely to turn up false positives.\u00a0 Testing drivers for recent marijuana use, however, has proved to be much more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Recently<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/colorado-lawmakers-appear-set-to-enact-marijuana-dui-law\/\" target=\"_blank\"> marijuana.net ran a story<\/a> about a proposed law in Colorado that would set a limit as to how much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/vchemlib\/mim\/bristol\/thc\/thc_text.htm\" target=\"_blank\">THC <\/a>could legally be permitted in a drivers system. \u00a0Initially the bill to regulate marijuana DUI was passed by Colorado lawmakers by one vote, 18-17, two weeks ago.\u00a0 However, politics is often unpredictable and one of the bills major proponents, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancyspence.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Spence<\/a> was unable to make it to Tuesday\u2019s vote.\u00a0 She was out of state attending a grandchild\u2019s birthday party.\u00a0 Ms. Spence was urged to return quickly by her constituents but she expected the vote to take place a day later.\u00a0 Everyone voted identically as they did two weeks prior, except for Nancy Spence\u2019s absent vote which killed the legislation and resulted in a 17-17 tie.<\/p>\n<p>Critics and opponents have long been seeking a system to test if marijuana patients are suitable to take the wheel.\u00a0 Nationally, it would probably result in even more support (though<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/05\/16\/poll-74-percent-want-end-to-medical-marijuana-raids\/\" target=\"_blank\"> over 70% of Americans<\/a> already support medical marijuana) and maybe even by the government if safety measures were taken to ensure driver safety.\u00a0 However, the proposed law in Colorado seemed to be set entirely too low.\u00a0 It would appear that patients would face penalties who were not under the influence of marijuana.\u00a0 The 5 nanogram limit, as stated by Colorado lawmaker<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patsteadman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Pat Steadman<\/a> may not work because \u201cSome of these people wake up in the morning and roll out of bed at 5 nanograms.\u201d\u00a0 In response to the vote yesterday, he mentioned that he thought the bill would do nothing to make the roads safer.<\/p>\n<p>While the future of the industry may be very much intertwined with a standard system for analyzing marijuana DUI, we are pleased to see that vulnerable and innocent patients will not be arrested even when they are not impaired to operate a motor vehicle.\u00a0 This law will likely come up again as it has failed 3x already.\u00a0 Hopefully a more commonsense approach is utilized for what appears to be an inevitable law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,166,1110,56,9,1111,51,1112,70,1,3,61],"tags":[2632,2744,3680,2636,3681,2631,3682,5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}