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| Michigan may be 1st to adopt roadside drug testing quote:
Michigan drivers could become the first in the nation subject to roadside drug testing under a bill introduced Wednesday in the Legislature.
The legislation would authorize police to administer a roadside saliva test for illegal drug use, just as they do breath tests for alcohol, when they stop a driver suspected of being intoxicated.
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Southfield criminal defense attorney Joseph Awad said roadside drug testing opens the door for arbitrary application by police, especially against thousands of drivers on the road every day using doctor-prescribed medications, Awad said.
But Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML, a national group that advocates for the decriminalization of marijuana, said a reliable, roadside test could help. But Armentano is skeptical about the equipment and whether testing would improve public safety.
One benefit, Armentano said, is that the public would be more likely to embrace rational drug laws if a reliable roadside test was available.
The presence of any level of any illegal drug is grounds under Michigan law for a charge of drugged driving.
-- »www.freep.com/article/20100909/N···z3qBY8sq
That seems interesting to me. Like "mr. matt's" topic, of how increased technology can make things better and worse.
I like this idea because I think it could increase support for decriminalizing marijuana use. But, it's going to create a problem for everyone else driving around after taking a sinus tablet (and find themselves guilty of "drugged driving."). They're going to have to work out some level of drugged before being criminally impaired.
It would create a new intrustion into our privacy. But, perhaps reduce other intrusions which have resulted from the "War on Cheech and Chong fans" (raids on purchasers of hydroponic equipment, roadside searches, surveillance of electricity usage and aerial "heat maps"). |
