Volunteers get high to help California police spot pot users
Even though recreational marijuana is legal in California, most people probably wouldn't be comfortable smoking around police officers. But that's exactly what Edson Villegas volunteered to do, CBS Los Angeles reports.
Villegas took part in a "green lab" to help officers, prosecutors and toxicologists identify signs of impairment as drugged driving becomes a growing problem on roads.
"Approximately 75 percent of the DUI arrests that I make nowadays are drug impaired -- more specifically to cannabis than alcohol," said Glendale Police Officer Bryan Duncan.
The volunteer users took field sobriety tests at the beginning of the evening, then went into a tent and smoked marijuana. When they went back and took the same field sobriety tests, officers could see if there were any changes in their mental or physical abilities.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15 2018, @09:55PM (2 children)
No.
Authoritarians are not interested in science.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @12:48AM (1 child)
determine whether weed-impaired driving is more dangerous
Authoritarians are not interested in science
...but it does seem likely that they would be interested in finding out any -negative- effects[1] long before they would be interested in any studies that prove weed has positive medicinal qualities.
[1] ...and would likely bury any results that supported the opposite finding.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday February 16 2018, @03:13PM
Why?
To an authoritarian, weed is bad because it's illegal - no other evidence needed. Any research results would be at best superfluous, and at worst undermine faith in the authoritarian regime.