Daily News | This cannabis user was arrested for DUI, yet his driving was fine — a clash of science and law that’s on the rise
Patrick Murphy saw the flashing lights come on behind him on State Route 115, and he immediately knew what it was about. He was on his way to get an estimate to fix a broken headlight, but it was the day before Thanksgiving, typically a big day for traffic enforcement. Of all the bad luck, a Pennsylvania state trooper had spotted the damage first.
. In the Garden State, a drugged driving conviction requires evidence of actual impairment — the officer’s observations coupled with other findings such as drugs in the car. That means a lot of paperwork for Tory Spindle, an experimental psychologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. To study the drug’s effects in his lab, he needs special approval from three institutions: the school, the FDA, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
That leaves measuring cannabis impairment directly with behavioral and cognitive tests. But those types of evaluations also can be a challenge, Spindle and other scientists say. Habitual users can develop a tolerance, meaning that a given amount of the drug results in less impairment than it would for novice users. Then there’s the difficulty of distinguishing impairment from the effects of medical conditions or age.
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