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These state laws fall into three categories: (1) "zero tolerance" laws, which criminalizes driving with any amount of THC and/or its metabolites in the body; (2) "per se" laws, which criminalize driving with a certain level of THC in the body; (3) laws that focus on whether the driver was actually impaired or affected by THC; and (4 ...
Medical marijuana is legal in Ohio, and voters in November approved an initiative to make recreational use legal, but the state lawmakers have yet to implement a system for it.
As cannabis legalization spreads across North America, researchers and policymakers are scrambling to solve the issue of road safety. Drunk driving remains a higher risk for accidents, but recent ...
1937 poster warning U.S. drivers against drunk driving. Driving under the influence (DUI) is the offense of driving, operating, or being in control of a vehicle while impaired by alcohol or drugs (including recreational drugs and those prescribed by physicians), to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely. [1]
Timeline of Gallup polls in US on legalizing marijuana. [1]In the United States, cannabis is legal in 39 of 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. At the federal level, cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, determined to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use, prohibiting its use for any purpose. [2]
In March, Gov. Andy Beshear signed Senate Bill 47, which legalizes medical marijuana. It will go into effect in 2025 after more than a decade of failed attempts. Under the law, patients with at ...
[33] [34] Young concluded: "The evidence in this record clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people, and doing so with safety under medical supervision. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the ...
What exactly qualifies as "driving under the influence" when it comes to weed? Generally, the penalties for marijuana-related DUIs are the same as those for alcohol-related DUI convictions.