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Toddler Tests Positive for THC

Triangle Bar

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This is just the latest case of a child poisoned by marijuana. Child poisoning from maryjane has increased 200%, in children 0 to 5 years old, since the explosion in medical mj cards. I guess we'll have to wait and see how much it goes up after the opening of retail mj stores.

http://www.krdo.com/news/longmont-toddler-tests-positive-for-pot-ingredient/-/417220/23756922/-/akeywf/-/index.html
 

Tam

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Got to love it when pro marijuana activist compare smoking to drinking booze. :roll:

Does drinking a beer or glass of wine hurt the person sitting across the room from you?
People are not allowed to smoke a cigarette in a public place as the smoke harms others in the same area.

Can you have "a" beer or glass of wine with friends then get up and drive home?

Sorry you are impaired after smoking one joint unlike drinking one beer.

So who believes smoking a joint in your private home as the law allows if your children are present is not going to affect their health?

Police can check to see if you are impaired on booze by making you blow how are they going to tell you are high when they stop you after you had a joint and decided to drive?

This is a slippery slope and I fear making it legal is only going to lead to stupid people thinking they can legalize more dangerous drugs with no ill effects.
 

Steve

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due to the amount of illegal drug use already some law enforcement are already seeking new technology to test for more drugs..

Cops to Use Portable Drug Test at New Year's DUI Checkpoints

The new technology will allow authorities to test drivers for narcotics using a mouth swab

Authorities plan to crack down on impaired drivers – either drunk or under the influence of drugs – using new DUI technology this New Year’s holiday.

A state grant will allow Los Angeles police officers to expand its use of swab testing at DUI checkpoints and jails to check for narcotics use, city officials announced at a press conference on Friday.

The grant comes at an opportune time as authorities said they are seeing more incidents of motorists driving under the influence of marijuana and other drugs.

Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said the prevalence of medical marijuana dispensaries throughout Los Angeles have heightened the number of impaired drivers in the city.

“There’s a growing recognition that driving under the influence of drugs is something we need to be clamping down on more effectively,” Feuer said.

Authorities also said that medical marijuana cardholders are not excused from receiving a DUI.

The new technology was announced after it was reported that more than 1,500 people have been arrested on suspicion of DUI so far this winter holiday season in Los Angeles County.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Authorities-Announce-New-DUI-Technology-Ahead-of-New-Years-Holiday-237546481.html

Colorado police are rapidly preparing to find ways to target drivers who may be operating their vehicles under the influence of marijuana. According to state trooper Josh Lewis, such investigations typically begin with a roadside sobriety test.

"Can somebody essentially do two things at once," said Lewis. "Can they count out loud and walk a line? We know in driving you're going to be required to do more than one thing at any given time."

If the officer suspects that someone is driving while high, they have two recourses.

"For marijuana there is no breath test. It's a blood test or a refusal ... You're going to lose your license longer by refusing."

The blood test is designed specifically to determine how high someone is at the moment, following concerns that a urine test would flag how much marijuana someone had smoked in the preceding days or weeks. Redditor and former DUI/DWI prosecutor VerticalNystagmus explains the process by which an officer could force a suspect to submit to a blood test; non-accident DUIs would require a warrant to administer the more intrusive blood test.

However, it's unclear whether the blood test accurately measures intoxication. Westword pot reporter William Breathes waited 15 hours on top of and a night of sleep after smoking weed and still tested nearly three times higher than the proposed legal limit, despite not being impaired.

so if you want to get stoned.. don't drive.. period..

and not that so called Obama period either..
 
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