With Pot Legal, Police Worry About Road Safety

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It's settled. Pot, at least certain amounts of it, will soon be legal under state laws in Washington and Colorado. Now, officials in both states are trying to figure out how to keep stoned drivers off the road.
 
Colorado's measure doesn't make any changes to the state's driving-under-the-influence laws, leaving lawmakers and police to worry about its effect on road safety.
 
"We're going to have more impaired drivers," warned John Jackson, police chief in the Denver suburb of Greenwood Village.
 
Washington's law does change DUI provisions by setting a new blood-test limit for marijuana — a limit police are training to enforce, and which some lawyers are already gearing up to challenge.


http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pot-legal-police-worry-road-safety-17723983#.UKSz845rQ0s
 

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It's settled. Pot, at least certain amounts of it, will soon be legal under state laws in Washington and Colorado. Now, officials in both states are trying to figure out how to keep stoned drivers off the road.
 
Colorado's measure doesn't make any changes to the state's driving-under-the-influence laws, leaving lawmakers and police to worry about its effect on road safety.
 
"We're going to have more impaired drivers," warned John Jackson, police chief in the Denver suburb of Greenwood Village.
 
Washington's law does change DUI provisions by setting a new blood-test limit for marijuana — a limit police are training to enforce, and which some lawyers are already gearing up to challenge.


http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pot-legal-police-worry-road-safety-17723983#.UKSz845rQ0s
 

Stupid. Love the part about "lawyers gearing up to challenge." Cha Ching!

The logic is total fail in this. Now that pot is legal you will all of a sudden have more people driving while high? Huh? I doubt the number changes any. I also doubt that the state will see a large uptick in pot usage.

I believe a lot of this bullshit about pot etc that has been heaped on this populace will come crashing down.