Our View: Marijuana OUI not as simple as drawing blood

When a driver registers a .08 or higher on a blood-alcohol test, drawing an OUI and all the expensive, life-altering consequences that come with it, there is little doubt that they were impaired while driving.

In fact, many people are at least slightly impaired well before they reach that level, but the law gives those people some leeway by setting the strict standard high enough so that unimpaired drivers are not mistakenly charged and prosecuted.

Since there is no test for marijuana analogous to the blood alcohol measurement used to enforce drunk-driving laws, police will have to use other ways to judge driver impairment. File photo

There is a temptation to apply the same logic to those driving under the influence of marijuana, by establishing a measurable limit to how much of the drug you can have in your system before it becomes to unsafe to drive. Go over it,...

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