Wednesday, February 6, 2013

With Pot Legal, Police Worry About Road Safety | Synopsis

With Pot Legal, Police Worry About Road Safety

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It's settled. Flowerpot, a minimum of particular amounts of it, will quickly be legal under state laws in Washington and Colorado. Now, authorities in both states are attempting to figure out ways to keep stoned drivers off the road. Colorado's measure doesn't make any type of changes to the state's driving-under-the-influence laws, leaving lawmakers and police to worry about its result on road security. "We're going to have more impaired drivers," alerted John Jackson, police chief in the Denver suburb of Greenwood Village. Washington's law does change DUI provisions by setting a new blood-test restriction for marijuana-- a limit police are training to implement, and which some lawyers are currently preparing to test. "We've had decades of studies and experience with alcohol," stated Washington State Patrol spokesperson Dan Coon.

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