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No Scientific Basis that THC in Blood Makes For Safe Driving :-) (Video)
: No scientific basis exists to legitimize current THC testing
: in place in five states who base their impaired driving
: standards on THC levels in blood. According to a study from
: auto club giant AAA’s safety foundation, a blood test
: threshold for THC — the chemical component of cannabis that
: makes people ‘high’ — is simply not scientifically
: possible.
: Yet, in five of six states where cannabis is legal, the tests
: are used to determine whether or not drivers should be
: considered impaired. Those tests employ a blood level-based
: judgment similar to that used for determining alcohol
: impairment. But AAA found such tests for THC are wholly
: unreliable — sending potentially unimpaired drivers to jail
: and putting impaired drivers back behind the wheel.
: “There is understandably a strong desire by both lawmakers and
: the public to create legal limits for marijuana impairment
: in the same manner we do alcohol,” said AAA president and
: CEO, Marshall Doney, as reported by the Associated Press.
: “In the case of marijuana this approach is flawed and not
: supported by scientific research.”
