Home | Community | Message Board


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds   Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals   Left Coast Kratom Kratom Powder For Sale   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
InvisibleveggieM

Registered: 07/25/04
Posts: 17,504
Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado
    #14426615 - 05/09/11 08:13 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado
May 9, 2011 - Associated Press

DENVER (AP) — The nation's most liberal driving-while-high standards have been rejected by the Colorado Senate, even as lawmakers sign off on other regulations about medical marijuana.

The Senate narrowly rejected a pot DUI proposal Monday that would have set a driving impairment standard of 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood. THC is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.

That would have been the country's most liberal limit and was approved by the House. But medical marijuana advocates and some Republicans opposed it, saying there isn't enough research on the matter to set a limit.

Senators gave preliminary approval to a separate bill banning synthetic marijuana known as "Spice" or "K2." Lawmakers also approved new regulations for selling medical marijuana.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinedestructo_low
Oh yeah!
Male User Gallery


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 10/07/08
Posts: 4,328
Last seen: 10 years, 8 months
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: veggie]
    #14426634 - 05/09/11 08:18 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

It seems there is sanity in Colorado. :thumbup:


--------------------
There is a molecule for every purpose. There are only actions and reactions. Cut out the middle men. Everything I say is a lie.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleFleshCap
FleshCap
Male User Gallery


Registered: 11/10/08
Posts: 685
Loc: Cali Underground Flag
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: destructo_low]
    #14426855 - 05/09/11 08:56 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

This isn't over just yet. Give it some time...


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineRabid Jelly Bean
Stranger
Male


Registered: 01/25/10
Posts: 411
Loc: TX Flag
Last seen: 10 years, 9 months
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: FleshCap]
    #14427294 - 05/09/11 10:14 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Why can't cops just do a simple sobriety test on those they think are stoned?


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleDa_Vine
eat me
Male


Registered: 07/03/04
Posts: 300
Loc: jamaica mon
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: Rabid Jelly Bean]
    #14427556 - 05/09/11 11:22 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

unless your an idiot you should be able to function properly while driving high. i actually drive much safer high.

all the symptoms of being high on weed are coincidental.. you could just be exhausted or have red eyes due to allergies.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisible5-HT2A
Registered: 01/30/10 Happy 14th Shroomiversary!
Posts: 1,794
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: Da_Vine]
    #14427652 - 05/10/11 12:02 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

The nation's most liberal driving-while-high standards




Pure propaganda, trying to get people to think you can be uber fucked up and not be accountable. This policy is in no way liberal, the main difference is the fact that you actually have to reach a given level of THC in order to be considered intoxicated, whereas elsewhere any level >0 means you're legally intoxicated.

Propaganda! :boo:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflinePMATL
Stranger

Registered: 04/22/11
Posts: 137
Last seen: 12 years, 5 months
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: 5-HT2A]
    #14427656 - 05/10/11 12:05 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

How is this determined? I know that if your a heavy pot smoker you'll test positive for weed even after 40 days or so if you don't do something to detox like taking antioxidants or excercising.

So could you theoretically be convicted for a DWI if your sober but had been smoking a week before?


--------------------
It is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.

It's legs to walk and thoughts to fly
Eyes that laugh and lips that cry
A restless tongue to classify,
All born to grow and grown to die


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleAlienscience
 User Gallery


Registered: 07/19/09
Posts: 1,258
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: PMATL]
    #14427867 - 05/10/11 01:25 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

So much animosity and negativety.  I say, if you die, it's your fault.  Don't blow my high, don't wast my time, wampa wampa beat let me take my....

"When I wiz, it's kalifa"


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblesandi
omg


Registered: 04/11/11
Posts: 796
Loc: M6 (Butterfly Cluster)
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: Alienscience]
    #14427872 - 05/10/11 01:28 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Awesome news.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleLSDylan
bass music enjoyer
Male


Registered: 05/26/10
Posts: 4,992
Loc: Michigan
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: FleshCap]
    #14428476 - 05/10/11 06:40 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

FleshCap said:
This isn't over just yet. Give it some time...



:whathesaid:


--------------------
DanceSafe | Voluntaryism


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisible420Experience
GC#3
 User Gallery

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 08/13/10
Posts: 701
Loc: Searching the Rabbit Hole...
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: Rabid Jelly Bean]
    #14429137 - 05/10/11 10:19 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

Rabid Jelly Bean said:
Why can't cops just do a simple sobriety test on those they think are stoned?




That's fine, but discriminates against those that use cannabis for a disability/disabilities or debilitating conditions that hinders/hinder their ability to pass a field sobriety test...


--------------------
And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem. ~Jerry Garcia

I am a catepillar surfing on smoke through Shpongleland...



Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSuperide
PROcrastinator
Male

Registered: 01/19/11
Posts: 293
Loc: MASS
Last seen: 9 years, 11 months
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: 420Experience]
    #14429396 - 05/10/11 11:28 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

How do they plan on testing for THC roadside? Piss, blood...?

Needless to say this whole deal seems just a little impractical:rolleyes:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinebatman returns
Dude man
Male User Gallery


Registered: 09/12/09
Posts: 213
Last seen: 8 years, 3 months
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: Superide]
    #14429852 - 05/10/11 01:25 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

For immediate release, May 9, 2011

Contact: Cannabis Therapy Institute
1-877-420-4205

THC/DUI Bill Killed

The Colorado Senate voted on Monday night to kill HB1261, the THC/DUI bill,
in its entirety, scoring a huge victory for patients nationwide. According
to the Denver Post, the bill cannot be brought up again this session.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18028238

Earlier today, it looked like the bill was sure to pass. Sen. Morgan
Carroll said in an interview today that law enforcement was lobbying
heavily in favor of it. Sen. Carroll didn't think the Democrats had the
votes to kill the bill.
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/05/thc_driving_limits_bill_back_william_breathes_blood_test.php

The death of the bill did not come easy, and its last minutes were filled
with high stakes political drama, as law enforcement lobbyists scrambled to
snatch up last minute votes on the Senate floor.

On the first attempt to vote on it, the bill was laid over until the fiscal
note could be presented. This gave the lobbyists more time. The Fiscal Note
was retrieved less than an hour later, and the Senate attempted another
vote on the bill.

First, they voted whether or not to insert the study recommended by the
Senate Judiciary Committee back into the bill, and reject ed the 5 ng
THC/DUI per se law. On a voice vote, the Senate voted to adopt the study
and reject the 5ng THC/DUI per se law.

This amazing reversal of the language was surprising even to the Senate
chair, who said "the chair is in doubt" as to which side won in the voice
vote. The Senate chair then asked the members against HB1261 to stand. The
chair then pronounced, "More than 18 having arisen, HB1261 fails."

About 15 minutes later, there was a last ditch attempt to revive the bill
by Senators Boyd and King by an Amendment from the Committee of the Whole
to reverse the vote that just happened. This time, the chair called for a
roll vote. The Senate voted 20 to 15 not to revive HB1261. So, now the bill
is killed, and cannot be revived any more this session, in any form.

"This is a huge victory for patients, who fought to uphold their rights
with hundreds of letters and phone calls," says Laura Kriho, spokesperson
for the Cannabis Therapy Institute, which led the fight against HB1261.

Kriho credits Corey Donahue, of a group called "Crazy for Justice", for
helping kill the bill. "Corey spent the whole day down at the Capitol today
trying to educate the Senators. His effort was an enormous help," says
Kriho. "The Senate got pressure from everywhere. Thanks to all those who
helped in this effort!"


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineLuigisDeathRace
the dog ate my shrooms
Male


Registered: 04/07/11
Posts: 78
Loc: FLO-RIder
Last seen: 12 years, 5 months
Re: Driving-while-high bill fails in Colorado [Re: batman returns]
    #14430284 - 05/10/11 03:14 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

yesss  i was hoping for this shit to never happen ....you damm mongolians ..stop breaking my shhity wal..:randy: :logic:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Original Sensible Seeds Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds   Bridgetown Botanicals Bridgetown Botanicals   Left Coast Kratom Kratom Powder For Sale   Unfolding Nature Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Immigrant driving bill gains speed in county TinMan 1,349 1 08/16/03 08:44 AM
by luvdemshrooms
* Medical marijuana user promotes 'exemption' bill veggieM 1,135 0 04/29/05 09:56 PM
by veggie
* -CANADA- Pot decrim bill won't pass carbonhoots 3,557 7 11/20/19 04:24 PM
by Barnaby
* Lawmakers To Introduce Bill To Cease Federal Prosecution.... socratesmind 3,713 4 02/28/03 02:07 PM
by motaman
* Bush Signs $401 Billion Defense Bill ZippoZM 2,451 2 11/24/03 11:26 AM
by AuroricDistortions
* Judge Revives Nevada Marijuana Petition automanM 1,687 2 01/29/05 07:27 AM
by Seuss
* Colorado Fails to Legalize Marijuana.
( 1 2 all )
ShroomDoom 4,791 28 11/14/06 03:04 AM
by ToTheExtreme, LOL
* Colorado likely to legalize mj statewide
( 1 2 all )
Da_Vine 7,797 33 08/14/06 08:20 PM
by Microcosmatrix

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: motaman, veggie, Alan Rockefeller, Mostly_Harmless
1,417 topic views. 0 members, 4 guests and 5 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.023 seconds spending 0.007 seconds on 14 queries.