Noelle Phillips and Elizabeth Hernandez got some things right in their Denver Post article, “State still not sure whether legal pot made roads less safe.” The article was generally well done and reasonably accurate.
Colorado’s DUI law, which has a single definition of DUI irrespective of cause was correctly cited as a prime reason that Colorado is woefully behind in attempting to understand the impact of marijuana on road safety. If you don’t measure something, … READ MORE
The pot lobby is at it again. December 2014, Paul Armentano, NORML’s Deputy Director issued a press release entitled, “Evidence Fails to Support Proposed DUI Impairment Levels for Cannabis.” This in and of itself is nothing new. Researchers have known for years that blood levels of THC bear only a slight relationship to impairment levels (see Dec 12 blog “What level of THC in blood causes driving impairment?”) More to the point, it has long …