Dotzilla wrote:
It's by blood test. And having a legal limit is fairly ridiculous, as it is legal (with prescription, though you can still be charged with DUI, the consequences are less strict) to drive on Percoset, Lortab, Xanax, Ativan, Valium, Phenergan, and hundreds of other drugs that have a much larger effect than marijuana. I can rip an entire gram through a bong, then drive past a police station on my way to an hour of errands, versus taking 5/500mg of Vicodin, which will almost certainly incapacitate me for 4-6 hours. Yet, if I'm pulled over for driving on marijuana, I will almost certainly go to jail, but if I'm driving completely blitzed on opioids, I'll have my wrist slapped and be told to get off the road, as long as I have a prescription.
Yes - because you have a prescription, a medically valid reason to take those drugs. If you don't, then you will probably be charged with felony possession.
You are comparing apples (drug abuse) with oranges (legitimate use of pharmaceuticals). Perhaps the latter is too expansive and an abuse onto itself; if so, that's a different problem than the one we're looking to address here.
Dotzilla wrote:
Doesn't matter anyway. Being too high to drive makes you not want to drive. It's a paradox.
You're right. So why does anyone care?
Why do people get on the road when they're high on pot and would be strongly disinclined to drive?
The answer is, because they want to get more pot, or because they have hunger cravings, or because they need to take care of whatever few marginal responsibilities they feel they need to do in order to keep the pot coming, so they can feel content with their sad, pathetic, chemically dependent existence.
And that is why pot is and should be and must always be illegal. Because if it wasn't, the scope of many people's thinking and behavior would become as narrow as getting the drug would allow, and the results would be disastrous for society as a whole. The effects of having so many totally apathetic people in society would have a massive impact on everyone's life, whatever one's individual choice might be.
Individual choices don't stay individual for very long.