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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Australia: NSW Government claim cannabis stays in system for up to 12 hours questioned by magistrate 🌿Australia: NSW Government claim cannabis stays in system for up to 12 hours questioned by magistrate
A magistrate has launched a blistering attack on the New South Wales Government's roadside drug testing regime, challenging the accuracy of its claims that cannabis can only be detected in a person's saliva for up to 12 hours.
Key points:
- Drivers are being charged days after using cannabis, magistrate says
- Magistrate points to hundreds of cases of this happening
- He said no evidence had been presented in court showing drugs can only be detected for up to 12 hours
In a judgement on Monday, Lismore magistrate David Heilpern said he had heard hundreds of cases over the past few months in which drivers said they had waited days, sometimes weeks, after smoking cannabis before driving.
Yet they had still tested positive to cannabis and been charged with the offence of driving with an illicit drug in their blood.
"In the vast majority of cases the time frame has...
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