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Elections in California. Proposition 215, or the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, [1] is a California law permitting the use of medical cannabis despite marijuana's lack of the normal Food and Drug Administration testing for safety and efficacy. It was enacted, on November 5, 1996, by means of the initiative process, and passed with 5,382,915 (55 ...
Field sobriety tests ( FSTs ), also referred to as standardized field sobriety tests ( SFSTs ), are a battery of tests used by police officers to determine if a person suspected of impaired driving is intoxicated with alcohol or other drugs. FSTs (and SFSTs) are primarily used in the United States, to meet "probable cause for arrest ...
Cannabis. Two main questions arise in the law surrounding driving after having ingested cannabis: (1) whether cannabis actually impairs driving ability, and (2) whether the common practice of testing for THC (the main psychoactive substance in cannabis) is a reliable means to measure impairment. On the first question, studies are mixed.
According to California’s chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), the Golden State will join Washington, Nevada, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Montana ...
Sims said police can use the same field sobriety test for marijuana as officers use for alcohol. Once they arrest a driver, city police bring in police officer and drug recognition expert Marlo ...
Read more: Column: For drivers 70 and older, the road rage over DMV test questions continues. “It crashed three times,” Meyers, 90, said in a sassy letter to the DMV. She later took an in ...
Positional alcohol nystagmus. Positional alcohol nystagmus (PAN) is nystagmus (visible jerkiness in eye movement) produced when the head is placed in a sideways position. PAN occurs when the specific gravity of the membrane space of the semicircular canals in the ear differs from the specific gravity of the fluid in the canals because of the ...
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