Stoned Driving Puts Wrinkle In Pot Debate

HUFFINGTON POST:   Angeline Chilton says she can’t drive unless she smokes pot. The suburban Denver woman says she’d never get behind the wheel right after smoking, but she does use medical marijuana twice a day to ease tremors caused by multiple sclerosis that previously left her homebound.

“I don’t drink and drive, and I don’t smoke and drive,” she said. “But my body is completely saturated with THC.” …

But unlike alcohol, marijuana stays in the blood long after the high wears off a few hours after use, and there is no quick test to determine someone’s level of impairment – not that scientists haven’t been working on it…  (more)

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