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Just read this over on Reddit, scary stuff!!
Click the links and look at the attachments for data taken in 2006.
I copied and pasted it over here:
The proposed lower blood limit cutoff for THC is 2ng/ml. This finding will result in a summary criminal conviction. The criminal conviction is the important part, not the low fine.
Criminal convictions can ruin employment opportunities, cause you to lose background checks that you may need in order to volunteer and help others, not to mention become inadmissible to several countries, or even deported. Criminal convictions are serious.
However, people with legitimate medical needs, even on small doses can have amounts in their blood that will turn them into criminals: http://imgur.com/a/yxWhf
As you can see, in the TABLE 1, maximum numbers (0.9+1.5) can occur even with only 7.5 milligram of THC dosing per day. Even the usual recommended starting dose 0.2ml of 25mg/ml cannabis oil, taken twice daily will put you over that amount. You are now a criminal.
You might as well sign confession for your crimes right there in the doctors office. You will not have the opportunity to prove in courts that you were not impaired. Our laws don't actually require a proof of impairment. Once your blood levels are over that magic number, you are a criminal.
Maximum concentration will of course build up over the course of therapy, as these compounds are long-lived in the body. As you can see in TABLE 2, maximum concentration levels are reached after 107 hours of repeated dosing (7.5mg total per day, split in 3 doses, with meals). Again, chronic users are penalized.
Repeated doses of just 7.5mg daily, which is less than the recommended starting dose, will cause you to become a criminal after only 107 hours. Again, this targets chronic medical users disproportionately.
Full study paper that explores dosing vs. blood level concentrations: https://www.scribd.com/document/345297678/THC-Blood-Levels
There are many other papers that support these facts. Please post them if you can find them.
And here we are, essentially an anti-science, zero-tolerance drug policy. Now you could be arrested and given a conviction for trace amounts of a chemical in your blood, regardless if you are actually impaired or not.
Just imagine how easy it will be for the police to fill the quota, just park next to a cannabinoid clinic! Drivers can be checked for sobriety any time, the supreme court already said so, right?
Road safety is important, but is it in the public interest to dissuade medical users from using safe medicines, and push them to opioids? Over 900 people died in BC from opioid overdoses last year.
This is an abomination.
Click the links and look at the attachments for data taken in 2006.
I copied and pasted it over here:
The proposed lower blood limit cutoff for THC is 2ng/ml. This finding will result in a summary criminal conviction. The criminal conviction is the important part, not the low fine.
Criminal convictions can ruin employment opportunities, cause you to lose background checks that you may need in order to volunteer and help others, not to mention become inadmissible to several countries, or even deported. Criminal convictions are serious.
However, people with legitimate medical needs, even on small doses can have amounts in their blood that will turn them into criminals: http://imgur.com/a/yxWhf
As you can see, in the TABLE 1, maximum numbers (0.9+1.5) can occur even with only 7.5 milligram of THC dosing per day. Even the usual recommended starting dose 0.2ml of 25mg/ml cannabis oil, taken twice daily will put you over that amount. You are now a criminal.
You might as well sign confession for your crimes right there in the doctors office. You will not have the opportunity to prove in courts that you were not impaired. Our laws don't actually require a proof of impairment. Once your blood levels are over that magic number, you are a criminal.
Maximum concentration will of course build up over the course of therapy, as these compounds are long-lived in the body. As you can see in TABLE 2, maximum concentration levels are reached after 107 hours of repeated dosing (7.5mg total per day, split in 3 doses, with meals). Again, chronic users are penalized.
Repeated doses of just 7.5mg daily, which is less than the recommended starting dose, will cause you to become a criminal after only 107 hours. Again, this targets chronic medical users disproportionately.
Full study paper that explores dosing vs. blood level concentrations: https://www.scribd.com/document/345297678/THC-Blood-Levels
There are many other papers that support these facts. Please post them if you can find them.
And here we are, essentially an anti-science, zero-tolerance drug policy. Now you could be arrested and given a conviction for trace amounts of a chemical in your blood, regardless if you are actually impaired or not.
Just imagine how easy it will be for the police to fill the quota, just park next to a cannabinoid clinic! Drivers can be checked for sobriety any time, the supreme court already said so, right?
Road safety is important, but is it in the public interest to dissuade medical users from using safe medicines, and push them to opioids? Over 900 people died in BC from opioid overdoses last year.
This is an abomination.
