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The blog we described two weeks ago, calling upon many state legislatures to avoid making the 5 ng/ml THC legal limit mistake made already by

Continued rise in DUID, reports CSP

Colorado makes no effort to collect, analyze and publish DUID statistics in the state. The state’s DUI reports cannot distinguish between causes of DUI, even

More bad legislation

Many states are considering legislation to deal with their drugged driving problem.  The good news is that they recognize the problem.  The bad news is

Setting the record straight

The Denver Post reported on March 4, 2017 that Jesus Carreno received a maximum sentence of six years after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide due

Bad News, Good News

The bad news: Denver voters approved Initiative 300 in the November, 2016 election. Initiative 300 bypasses Amendment 64’s constitutional promise that legalized marijuana could not

Why journalists lose respect

Journalists were once respected observers and critics of American life. That’s rarely the case today because of shallow reports such as “Answers to five questions

There’s a better way

The fall 2016 issue of The Journal of Global Drug Policy and Practice featured our article, “Why a 5 ng/ml THC limit is bad public policy –

Skydiving without a Parachute

Many conferences have been developed to help policy makers understand the impacts of marijuana legalization.  We at DUID Victim Voices have been occasionally requested to

Good publicity!

  We’re getting the word out about DUID, and our research is now being acknowledged by the scientific community!  For the last few years, we’ve

More bad journalism

Jacob Sullum, a pro-pot writer for Reason and Fortune magazines, is at it again. This time, he claims that marijuana’s impact on crash risk has

Tilting at windmills is also futile

Two recent research reports explain why blood tests are ineffective for determining driving impairment by marijuana, and why impairment-based DUI per se blood level limits