Lucido's Thc Commission Going Directly After Patients

[bax]

http://gophouse.org/rep-lucidos-bill-setting-thc-commission-signed-law/

 

 

Rep. Lucido’s bill setting up THC Commission signed into law

 

 

Categories: Lucido News,News

 

LANSING – A commission will study the effects of medical marijuana on drivers and submit its findings to set the threshold for expanding the state’s impaired driving safety programs, following the governor’s signature today of the legislation sponsored by state Rep. Peter Lucido.

 

“Our state has a clear standard as to what constitutes impaired driving for anyone who consumes alcohol, but nothing on the books regarding the effects of tethydrocannabinol (THC) on people behind the wheel,” said Rep. Lucido, R-Shelby Township. “Medical marijuana, whether by statewide vote or judicial order, has been allowed in this state for over a decade. It is long overdue that we study this issue to update Michigan’s impaired driving standards and ensure the safety of everyone on the road.”

 

THC is the chemical ingredient in marijuana that is responsible for its mind- and mood-altering effects.

 

House Bill 5024, now Public Act 350 of 2016, creates the Impaired Driving Safety Act to establish a THC Commission to do the following:

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With appropriation, implement a study to determine the appropriate and scientifically-supported threshold of THC bodily content to impair driving.

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Require the commission to report the study’s findings with the governor and legislative leaders within two years of the public act’s effective date.

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Will discontinue the commission upon the filing of the study’s final report or two years after the act’s effective date, whichever occurs first.

 

“We must cut through the conflicting research and inflexible zero-tolerance standards to have a legal measurement based on clear evidence,” said Rep. Lucido. “This is what we owe to everyone on our roads, who deserve an impartial baseline for all drivers.”

 

The commission will be created within the Michigan State Police Department.

 

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why did he say the medical marijuana was going on for more than a decade? 2008-2016 ... 8 years? can lucido count?

 

at least patients have nothing to worry about, the science and studies all point to marijuana not being a factor in crash risk.

 

http://blog.caranddriver.com/marijuana-doesnt-pose-significant-risk-in-car-crashes-nhtsa-says/

 

https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/812117-Drug_and_Alcohol_Crash_Risk.pdf

 

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2015/02/12/if-marijuana-causes-lots-of-crashes-why-are-they-so-hard-to-count/

 

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2016/12/21/Where-medical-pot-is-legal-fatal-car-crashes-often-decline/6181482352201/

 

http://sci-hub.io/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303577

Edited December 24, 2016 by bax

[Restorium2]

Where we end up is training a bunch of Drug Recognition Experts (cops) known as DRE's, that recognize impairment and also testify in court as expert witnesses.  It's the obvious destination for this adventure.  

[bobandtorey]

I think we all here saw this coming they are looking for a number like they have for DUI .o8 so that the Courts can win 

If anyone thinks it will go away think again 

 

I was inn Lansing when they where meeting and passed the road side testing Law

 

http://michiganmedicalmarijuana.org/topic/50045-impaired-driving-safety-commission-and-legislation-to-begin-the-assault-on-cannabis-and-driving/page-2?hl=%2Broad+%2Bside+%2Btesting#entry547375

Edited December 24, 2016 by bobandtorey

[Restorium2]

I think we all here saw this coming they are looking for a number like they have for DUI .o8 so that the Courts can win 

If anyone thinks it will go away think again 

 

I was inn Lansing when they where meeting and passed the road side testing Law

 

http://michiganmedicalmarijuana.org/topic/50045-impaired-driving-safety-commission-and-legislation-to-begin-the-assault-on-cannabis-and-driving/page-2?hl=%2Broad+%2Bside+%2Btesting#entry547375

I don't think it's going to be any number. History shows us it's a trained expert opinion, after an extensive interview, that decides impairment with drugs other than alcohol. Just google DRE and see where we are headed and the defenses you can put up against a decision by a DRE. 

[Restorium2]

http://www.ncids.com/forensic/dre/dre.shtml

[bobandtorey]

Just google DRE and see where we are headed and the defenses you can put up against a decision by a DRE. Yup will do thanks

 

someone's defenses will be paying His or her's  Lawyer 

[AmishRnot4ganja]

http://www.ncids.com/forensic/dre/dre.shtml

 

It appears that DREs are not reliable determinors of drug impairment - only 49% success rate? Never hold up in court - unbiased court that is.

[GregS]

It appears that DREs are not reliable determinors of drug impairment - only 49% success rate? Never hold up in court - unbiased court that is.

All of these resources should make it into the hands of the legislators who will be working with the study. Posting them only here is preaching to the choir.

[cristinew]

http://www.businessinsider.com/states-that-legalized-marijuana-saw-a-drop-in-traffic-deaths-2016-12 

 

Legalization of medical marijuana is not linked with increased traffic fatalities, a new study finds.

In some states, in fact, the number of people killed in traffic accidents dropped after medical marijuana laws were enacted.

“Instead of seeing an increase in fatalities, we saw a reduction, which was totally unexpected,” said Julian Santaella-Tenorio, the study’s lead author and a doctoral student at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York City.

Since 1996, 28 states have legalized marijuana for medical use.

Deaths dropped 11 percent on average in states that legalized medical marijuana, researchers discovered after analyzing 1.2 million traffic fatalities nationwide from 1985 through 2014.

The decrease in traffic fatalities was particularly striking – 12 percent – in 25- to 44-year-olds, an age group with a large percentage of registered medical marijuana users, the authors report in the American Journal of Public Health.

Though Santaella-Tenorio was surprised by the drop in traffic deaths, the results mirror the findings of another study of data from 19 states published in 2013 in The Journal of Law and Economics. It showed an 8 to 11 percent decrease in traffic fatalities during the first full year after legalization of medical marijuana.

“Public safety doesn’t decrease with increased access to marijuana, rather it improves,” Benjamin Hansen, one of the authors of the previous study, said in an email. Hansen, an economics professor at the University of Oregon in Eugene, was not involved in the current study.

[AmishRnot4ganja]

How much more information do the Anti's need in order to acknowledge that cannabis does not pose a threat to society?

 

Answer: Oh, maybe like 20-30 more years JUST TO MAKE SURE!

[dutchfarm]

I have waited almost 50 years thinking it will legal soon here, think I may die before I see it happening here. But, at least we got medical passed, that in itself is a big accomplishment!!

                               Farmer Brown

[bobandtorey]

I have waited almost 50 years thinking it will legal soon here, think I may die before I see it happening here. But, at least we got medical passed, that in itself is a big accomplishment!!

                               Farmer Brown

Wait no longer

 

http://michiganmedicalmarijuana.org/topic/51310-mpp-legalization-meetings/