The Michigan Supreme Court has upheld
a law which makes it illegal to
drive with any detectable amount of marijuana in your system. As Jacob
Sullum points
out, this is, kind of nuts.
Marijuana stays in your system
for days to weeks after you're no longer intoxicated. What I
wonder about is the standard required for testing; in
most states just by driving you're considered to have consented to
chemical testing for alcohol. In the particular cases that are the
the subject of this suit, there was evidence that the offenders had
smoked marijuana, but I wonder if you can just be stopped and randomly
tested.
Implications of Michigan's marijuana driving law?
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See also Michigan Department of State Police vs. Sitz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobriety_checkpoints