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[pollenchucker]

Can you send a quick email? Here's all it has to say:

Dear Senate Appropriations Committee Members:

Please sever the DUID criminal code from the regulatory bill today!

Sincerely,

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some more info if you want to get fancy-

"The conclusions of the report were explained by the author, “Despite
the fact that these laws have been touted by politicians and academics
as an effective strategy for making our roads safer, we find no
evidence that they reduce traffic fatalities. … [W]e cannot determine
why per se drugged laws do not work, and leave this issue to future
researchers. However, our results clearly indicate that, as currently
implemented, laws that make it illegal to drive with detectable levels
of a controlled substance in the system have little to no effect on
traffic fatalities.”

http://mvwlaw.com/blog/2013/04/study-indicates-per-se-zero-tolerance-drugged-driving-laws-ineffective-at-preventing-accidents/

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http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/04/thc_blood_test_pot_critic_william_breathes_3_times_over_limit_sober.php

April 2011

Last week, in advance of today's Senate debate over a bill that would
set THC driving limits, I had blood drawn (for a second time) to see
just how much active THC was in my blood even after a night of sleep
and not smoking for fifteen hours.
As it turns out, I've got a lot. So much that I and thousands of other
medical marijuana patients may be risking arrest every time we drive
if the measure passes. Even when deemed sober by a doctor, my active
THC levels were almost triple the proposed standard of 5 nanograms per
milliliter of blood.

Among the concerns about HB 1261, the THC driving bill first offered
by Representative Claire Levy, is the fact that THC can stay in the
body days after patients medicate. And my latest test offers proof.

The lab ran a serum/plasma test which showed my THC count to be at 27.
According to Dr. Alan Shackelford, who ordered the blood work and
evaluated my results, the number of active THC nanograms per
milliliter count is about half of that total, or 13.5 nanograms of THC
per milliliter of blood.

In short: If this bill passes and I was pulled over by police, I would
be over the limit by 8.5 nanograms. By that logic, I would be more
likely to have mowed down a family in my car on my way to the doctor's
office that day than actually arriving there safely. But I didn't --
because I wasn't impaired.

Don't take my word for it. According to Shackelford, who evaluated me
before writing the order to have my blood drawn last Wednesday, I was
"in no way incapacitated." According to him, my test results show that
it would not be uncommon to see such a high level in other people who
use cannabis regularly -- like medical marijuana patients. "Your level
was about 13.5 for whole blood... which would have made you
incapacitated on a lab value," he said. "They need to vote this sucker
down based on that alone."

Frankly, I didn't even need to go through this effort to prove that.
Levy appears to understand that the limit might unintentionally hurt
patients like me, since she's shared her concern that 5 nanograms is
too low. Yet the bill still moved through to the senate.

Now, with some actual proof from a Colorado medical marijuana patient
that this is the case, could someone curb this bill?

The Senate Judiciary Committee will discuss HB 1261 today at 1:30 p.m.
at the Capitol Building. The hearing will offer the last time public
comment will be heard about the proposal.

 

[sky high]

Done. Thanks for the addresses/push.

 

[Dopegeist]

Check.
A little personal story added too.

Part of me was thinking I should have just cataloged all my drunk driving incidents for comparison. Damn glad I never killed nobody, not that I cared much at the time.

 

[sky high]

And the beat (off) goes on....

DENVER—A stoned-driving debate that has divided Colorado lawmakers for years is poised to go down to the final hours in this year's Legislature.
With just two days left to settle the question, senators voted Monday to continue the driving-high debate by rejecting an amendment to say drivers are too stoned if their blood contains 5 nanograms per milliliter of marijuana's psychoactive ingredient, THC.
The vote in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday afternoon was at least the fifth time the Senate, or a Senate committee, has rejected the pot driving limit. It is already illegal to drive while impaired in Colorado, and opponents to the blood threshold say that officer observation should be the basis for stoned-driving cases. Many senators question whether a blood limit for marijuana, which is processed by the body differently than alcohol, is a fair measure of driving impairment.
"I just do not have enough information to make me feel comfortable on making a decision like that one," said Sen. Cheri Jahn, D-Wheat Ridge.
Senators have resisted even direct pleas from the Democratic governor to stop fighting the blood standard. When a driving-high bill was rejected in another Senate committee earlier this year, Gov. John Hickenlooper took the unusual step to taking to Twitter to urge the blood standard's approval. The only other state to legalize pot for recreational use, Washington, already has a voter-approved threshold of 5 nanograms.
The Colorado House planned to keep fighting for the limit. The House passed a bill Monday to revive the driving standard, forcing yet another showdown with the Senate.
Driving rules for marijuana users were among several pot measures awaiting lawmakers in their final three days.
Another marijuana regulation bill that passed the House on Monday sets an open-container equivalent for marijuana and requires marijuana to face the same indoor air quality restrictions as tobacco. The House gave the bill final approval 62-3. It now awaits Hickenlooper's signature.
Taxing the newly legal drug was another question to be worked out. Senators were mulling a pot tax rate greater than 25 percent, a 15 percent excise tax for school construction and a special 10 percent cannabis sales tax. Those would be in addition to local and statewide sales taxes. The 25 percent tax rate has already cleared the House and was headed to the Senate floor Monday afternoon in largely the same form.
Other regulations still awaiting resolution Monday included a first-in-the-nation attempt to treat marijuana magazines like pornography, forcing them behind the counter in stores that allow shoppers under 21. That provision, a last-minute amendment in the House, had High Times magazine contemplating a lawsuit if the requirement becomes law.


Read more: Colorado senators oppose stoned driving limits - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/marijuana/ci_23181618/marijuana-questions-remain-colo-lawmakers#ixzz2SYAzvzbA
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[altitudefarmer]

Hey Chucker- great post/thread! Lack of response is scary here. Great letter and awesome to provide addresses! Thanks.