Palm Springs Police to Drivers Who Use:
That was ... terrible.
I was with my mate last weekend, who has a drug charge post a New Years festival ’15. The cops hunt him down like sharks now, attempting to cherry pick data for big pharma's crappy oral fluid test that is being trialled in my country.
The only people tested with these things are expected positive testers (selected outside festivals/bush doofs) or known drug users/addicts (repeat customers). Even then the accuracy is questionable.
The whole thing reeks of tactical ignorance and corporate agenda and it peeves me to no end.
If you can't convict someone without evidence, fabricating evidence by means of a chemical reaction whilst ignoring other factors like unimpaired driving is surely a breach of authority.
Driving whilst 'hot boxing' should be treated like eating a takeaway meal at the wheel or reading a book, using a phone or any other instance of driving without due care and attention.
It's something that shouldn't be happening, sure, but it's no more of a crime. You need to be a serial offender to be impacted by the other versions, but god forbid you had drugs in your system even though you weren't inebriated, that'll be a court date, your license and international freedom thanks.
Totally unreasonable, and videos like the above just present aptly how out of touch the authorities are with the reality of cannabinoid interaction. Last I checked you can drive on benzos, anaesthetics and with my alcohol tolerance I can legally drive quite drunk...
Just curiously how do they check for a cannabis DUI in the legal American states? Are they only looking for cases of blatant misconduct as in this video or is a trace detection enough to take you down like it is in Aus, even if you're coherent and have no other indication of wrongdoing.
Bit of a triggered rant, but this is a real issue for a lot of unlucky people and is solely pushed by the old-timer corrupt laws surrounding drugs.
