From: Criminal Drivers Murder 40,000 Americans a Year on 20 May 2010 14:00 http://www.prisonplanet.com/feds-move-to-throw-pot-smokers-in-prison-for-impaired-driving.html Feds Move to Throw Pot Smokers in Prison for Impaired Driving Infowars.com May 20 2010 If you smoked marijuana last week or even last month and you drive a car, you may be sent to prison under new guidelines drafted by the federal government. The Obama administration released its National Drug Control Strategy guidelines last week. The federal government wants all of the states to adopt its authoritarian and draconian diktat and expand the drug war. From the guidelines: Cannabis metabolites can remain detectable in the urine for up to 100 days or longer for a regular cannabis consumer and up to fifteen days for the casual consumer, according to NORML, the marijuana advocacy organization. In other words, even if a pot smoker is conscientious and does not drive while intoxicated, that person can be arrested and convicted for DUID days or weeks after consuming marijuana. It would not matter if you are sober as a teetotaler if THC molecules are detected with a urine or blood test, you are probably going to prison. You can kiss the right to vote and own a firearm sayonara. The following states enforce zero tolerance draconian DUID laws: Arizona: Zero tolerance for cannabis metabolites, mandatory 24 hours jail, up to 6 months upon conviction. Delaware: Zero tolerance for cannabis metabolites. Georgia: Zero tolerance for cannabis metabolites, mandatory 24 hours jail, up to 12 months upon conviction. Illinois: Zero tolerance for cannabis metabolites, up to 12 moths upon conviction. Indiana: Zero tolerance for cannabis metabolites, up to 60 days upon conviction. Michigan: Zero tolerance for cannabis metabolites, up to 93 days upon conviction, vehicle immobilization for up to 180 days. Nevada: 15 ng/ml for cannabis metabolites. Ohio: 15 ng/ml for cannabis metabolites, mandatory 72 hours in jail, up to 6 months upon conviction, 6 month to 3 year license suspension. Pennsylvania: DUID for cannabis metabolites, amount unclear. South Dakota: Zero tolerance for cannabis metabolites for persons under the age of 21. Utah: Zero tolerance for cannabis metabolites, mandatory 48 hours jail, up to 6 months upon conviction. Obamas new guidelines will criminalize and add to the system hundreds of thousands of people and add thousands of people to the prison industry slave labor complex. In 2007 an American was arrested on marijuana charges every 36 seconds. Obama will increase this criminalization rate significantly. DUI checkpoints are on the rise around the country. In California, for instance, the state increased grants in 2009 by 47% for DUI checkpoints, including roving DUI patrols. 2010 was predicted to be the year of the Checkpoint in California. In California and elsewhere, these unconstitutional checkpoints are a highly profitable business for the state, netting billions of dollars every year. Behavioral impairment is not the issue. Expanding the criminal class is the issue. Government will never rest until it categorizes most of us as criminals. (snip) Drugged drivers are killers and maimers and deserve prison time but that's too expensive for the taxpayers. Better to hit them with loss of license and huge fines. Criminal drivers are a bigger threat to each of us than all other criminals put together!!
From: Criminal Drivers Murder 40,000 Americans a Year on 20 May 2010 14:08 Infowars is an obvious corporate shill. The auto industry loves car crashes cause that means car sales and they bribe the scum at infowars into opposing the war on drunk and drugged drivers.
From: John David Galt on 20 May 2010 15:40 > If you smoked marijuana last week or even last month and you drive a > car, you may be sent to prison under new guidelines drafted by the > federal government. That's not impaired driving. That's lawmaking-while-dimwitted. Reason has a good article about this bill this month. Any law that takes away a driver's license for reasons other than bad driving only provokes, and justifies, driving without a license.
From: Criminal Drivers Murder 40,000 Americans a Year on 20 May 2010 21:58 On May 20, 1:40 pm, John David Galt <j...(a)diogenes.sacramento.ca.us> wrote: > > > Any law that takes away a driver's license for reasons other than bad driving > only provokes, and justifies, driving without a license. YOu libertarian loons are all alike. You think you should be allowed to drive as crazy as you want until you actually kill someone
From: hal on 20 May 2010 22:50
On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:00:14 -0700 (PDT), "Criminal Drivers Murder 40,000 Americans a Year" <xeton2001(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Drugged drivers are killers and maimers and deserve prison time but >that's too expensive for the taxpayers. Better to hit them with loss >of license and huge fines. Criminal drivers are a bigger threat to >each of us than all other criminals put together!! There has never, ever been an automobile accident attributable to cannabis when alcohol was not a contributing factor. In other words, cannabis doesn't cause driving impairment at all. Alcohol does. |