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Sask. drivers grapple with zero-tolerance cannabis law
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This is the dumbest thing I have ever read about. I have seen people get hammered one night, and be super hungover the next day and driving. Even being hungover from alcohol slows your reflexes, impairs your judgment and ability to react or problem solve. Nothing would happen to them if police pulled them over.
Yet, someone who is completely sober the next day after one evening joint can lose their license? Insanity. Another backwards decision from the Scott Moe government.
This is already a thing for truck drivers, 0 tolerance. Smoking weed and driving is a DUI, regardless. The problem is they have no limits to how much weed is too much for a person while testing saliva, two to five-nanograms-per-millilitre of THC in a person's blood was set by Ottawa as the limit, everyone is different and has a different tolerance to weed. If someone has low tolerance, such as a first time user, they could be impaired while a seasoned smoker would be fine. It will be up to the cops discretion as to make judgment if someone is impaired, nothing changes. If a cop has suspicions that you are impaired from anything you will be tested and possibly detained and charged, nothing has changed. And after a heavy night of drinking then driving in the morning could most definitely lead to a DUI, it’s happened to others I know.
My understanding is that the laws against impaired driving are separate from driving with detectable cannabis or cocaine in your system.
Having some sort of impaired driving laws is reasonable. Having laws that don't even care about impairment, that are virtually impossible for the average person to measure and therefore assess the risk of driving is not reasonable and breaches multiple principles of fundamental justice. In my opinion. Which is not legal advice.