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Spookyvision404 t1_je4l820 wrote

I’d like to point out, if you are convicted of driving under influence of a controlled substance (marijuana in this case), the mandatory minimum is 12 month license suspension, 72 hours in hours in prison, and $1000 fine along with safety school classes and treatment if recommended. In the alternative if you’re offered ARD, your going to lose your license for 60 days and pay easily over $1500 in fines, court costs, etc. This is ridiculous considering the police do not use any reliable tests to determine impairment. Standardized Field Sobriety Tests were created to test for alcohol impairment and NOT marijuana impairment. The current Field sobriety tests are unreliable when it comes to an indication of marijuana impairment and people with a prescription are paying the high price of a DUI charge for seeking a non pharmaceutical alternative.

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heili t1_je5vl5q wrote

> Standardized Field Sobriety Tests were created to test for alcohol impairment and NOT marijuana impairment. The current Field sobriety tests are unreliable when it comes to an indication of marijuana impairment

The only "field sobriety test" that has any scientific basis is a properly administered horizontal gaze nystagmus test, and even that is easily rendered completely inaccurate by things like holding the object too close or too far from someone's face, moving the object too fast, incorrect angle, not viewing the eyes at eye level, movement of the fluid in the inner ear, dry eyes, caffeine, contact lenses, stress, smoking, seizure medication and antidepressants.

So that one is garbage too. Field Sobriety Tests (the dog-and-pony show) exist for no other reason than that they will almost certainly be used to claim probable cause to force an arrest and chemical testing.

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Spookyvision404 t1_je7kn3o wrote

Agreed, I just didn’t want to go down the rabbit hole of how much of a garbage science the SFSTs really are.

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