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Tandem DUI per se bill introduced, PI’d

January 29, 2019, HB19-1146, Concerning the offense of Tandem DUI per se was introduced into the Colorado legislature.  This bill replaces Colorado’s current 5 ng/ml THC permissible inference law with Tandem DUI per se and makes conforming changes to other statutes.  Sponsors are Representative Dylan Roberts (D-Eagle and Routt County) and Hugh McKean (R-Loveland).  The bill has been assigned to the judiciary committee for next legislative action.

Alcohol’s per se law requires one event to … READ MORE

Response to NORML

NORML (National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws) held their annual conference in Washington, DC on July 23, 2018. Deputy Director Paul Armentano presented “The Influence of Cannabis on Psychomotor Performance and Accident Risk.”

Armentano is a well-informed proponent of marijuana legalization. He is a rational, truthful person, not known to lie for his cause. But that does not prevent him from being guilty of distortions, bias, misleading statements, selective reporting or false conclusions.

Armentano’s deceptive … READ MORE

Educating Michigan

Michigan is considering legalizing the recreational use of marijuana in next month’s election.  Ross Jones of Detroit’s ABC affiliate WXYZ reported on his interviews of a number of Colorado leaders this week, asking if Colorado was less safe since legalizing marijuana in Colorado.  I was one of his interviewees.

Much of his reporting focused on the issue of marijuana-impaired driving.  I pointed out to him that marijuana-impaired driving and all drug-impaired driving is a significant … READ MORE

Twelve Drugged-Driving Lessons from Colorado

What has marijuana legalization done to Driving Under the Influence (DUI) cases in Colorado? Important answers are now emerging.  July 2018, the  Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) released a 106-page report Driving Under the Influence of Drugs and Alcohol for the year 2016.  This first-of-its-kind report and its database enabled us to draw twelve important conclusions.

 

 

1          Colorado’s report is the first to show causes of DUI, not just presence of drugs

Coroners … READ MORE

Two great new sources of data!

There were two great publications out this month!

First, the Colorado Department of Public Safety’s Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) released Driving Under the Influence of Drugs and Alcohol.  This comprehensive report makes the following facts perfectly clear:

  • Driving Under the Influence (DUI) is not just about alcohol.
  • Driving Under the Influence of Drugs (DUID) is not just about marijuana (polydrug impairment is more than twice as common and far more deadly).
  • Due to
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