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Proposed CA Drugged Driving Bill Quite Broad

posted by Dopefish on Thursday February 27 2014, @12:00PM   
from the count-on-a-politician-to-write-a-stupid-law dept.

Ellis D. Tripp writes "The California state assembly is considering a new bill aimed at reducing the incidence of Driving Under the Influence of Drugs (DUID). The proposed law would make it a criminal act to operate a motor vehicle with ANY detectable level of ANY Schedule I through IV drug in your bloodstream. Not only does this include many prescription drugs, but it would also include substances such as gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), n,n-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and testosterone, all of which are controlled substances, and also happen to occur naturally in the human body.

Whether an intentional attempt to create a law to be used selectively against anyone the cops want to arrest, or just an example of the gross ignorance of basic science among US legislators, laws like this are sure to be on the rise as prosecutors and police seek to retain power in the face of efforts to legalize marijuana and begin rolling back the abuses of the War on Drugs."

• Re:Basic research Re:Basic research (Score: 5, Insightful) by bucc5062 on Thursday February 27 2014, @01:54PM

  by bucc5062 (699) on Thursday February 27 2014, @01:54PM (#7946)

  And your being generous, the politicians who submitted the bill probably didn't even think (or cant)
  
  These days I feel most politicians, once elected, have only two things active in their brain, (1) keep my job, (2) get more money. There is no room for anything else. Read a bill, no time for I have to attend a dinner to raise money to keep me elected. Take time to truly understand an issue? Sorry citizen, I am to busy fighting to keep people not like us away, please give me money. Help to enforce regulations that effect your constituents? Please, who gives me more money, thus more power? But thank you for your vote.
  
  I don't know what is worse, that we have human beings that run for office who believe in creationism, who think science is subjective, who believe that only certain people should have rights, or ... human beings that actually vote for them. Driving to work this morning, listening to NPR News I had the thought, extinction is a probable outcome for our species, because we seem to be the only species that enthusiastically goes about destroying its self for no other reason then our ego. From these Bozos in CA to people like Putin and Assad, they share the common action of Me first, even it it kills Me.
  
  (only one cup of coffee, I'll get happier later)

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• Re:Basic research Re:Basic research (Score: 2) by dotdotdot on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:02PM

  by dotdotdot (858) on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:02PM (#8046)

  You're being very charitable. The politicians who submitted the bill probably didn't even read it.

  And your being generous, the politicians who submitted the bill probably didn't even think (or cant)

  And yer being benevolent; the politicians who submitted the bill probably didn't drink their coffee either (or talk hypocritically or speak in the whining or singsong tone of a beggar [reference.com]).

  I kid, I kid! We're having fun here, no? ;)

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  • Re:Basic research (Score: 5, Funny) by bucc5062 on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:33PM

    by bucc5062 (699) on Thursday February 27 2014, @05:33PM (#8064)

    Now that you point it out, perhaps that was a Freudian slip such that while I never knew that word consciously, it was in my sub-conscious waiting to be used in regards to politicians. Politicians cant...such a true statement as a default. Wonderful what I learn here. :)

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