How high is too high to drive? States find no easy answers

[madokie]

I agree with Mark Kleiman on this. madokie
I smoked that old devil weed for years, although I no longer do but not because of impairment btw. Never had a wreck due to my being high in 40 plus years of driving high either.

WASHINGTON — Josephine Drum says her daughter was “cheated out of life” when she was killed while driving to work in downtown Seattle in 2012, hit by a man in a Jeep whose blood tested positive for marijuana.

“I feel if you smoke marijuana and you have to smoke it, that you should not be able to drive under the influence,” said Drum, of Stockton, Calif. “I’m 84 years old. To have lost my daughter is something hard for me to accept.”

With the push to legalize marijuana surging in popularity, states want to assure the public that roads will be safe. But they face a perplexing question: How stoned is too stoned to drive?

“The answer is: Pretty damned stoned is not as dangerous as drunk,” said Mark Kleiman, professor of public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, who served as Washington state’s top pot consultant.

Link: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/05/06/226654/how-high-is-too-high-to-drive.html?sp=/99/200/365/

[Go Vols]

1. Someone needs to come up with a better "test"

Testing positive for THC doesn't mean that you are high right now.

[tridim]

2. I feel "high" after drinking a green smoothie, and have driven under the "influence" of Spinach.

Guess it's only a matter of time before they start testing for liquefied spinach and kale in the blood. Or feces maybe?

Herbs are herbs, they tend to promote good health and no they are not the same as hard drugs like alcohol.