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California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday February 15 2018, @06:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the where-do-I-sign-up? dept.

takyon writes:

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.

See also: Girl Scout sells more than 300 boxes of cookies at San Diego marijuana dispensary

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15 2018, @11:15PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 15 2018, @11:15PM (#638516)

    There are limits. Weed definitely has more wiggle room as it has different effects, but alcohol has a very real measurable effect on reaction times. Someone with .2 BAC is going to be slower and less attentive and a danger on the road. There is no simple way to have a more "just" system, so we get the current limits.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @12:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @12:42AM (#638558)

    alcohol has a very real measurable effect on reaction times

    In the WKRP episode "A Fish Story", [youtube.com] DJs "Doctor" Johnny Fever and Venus Rising^W^W Venus Flytrap offer to get drunk on the air while a cop measures the effect it has on them.
    Hilarity ensues. [google.com]

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by legont on Friday February 16 2018, @03:33AM

    by legont (4179) on Friday February 16 2018, @03:33AM (#638636)

    So why alcohol is olympics doping? Because it helps some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Olympic_Games [wikipedia.org]

    Should driving laws help some irresponsible drunks (by discouraging them) while hurting others? Perhaps. But they should not say that alcohol is bad for everybody because it is a lie and as such reduces the effects of laws.

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