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THC can remain in your system and be detected for 30 days. You are effectively proposing that it should be illegal to drive if you have ever used a THC product

THC can remain in your system and be detected for 30 days. You are effectively proposing that it should be illegal to drive if you have ever used a THC product in the past month

mothballed 1y ago
That's the way it was in my state until it was overturned on appeal, and they only did that due to an accident of the way weed was legalized.
jancsika 1y ago
Not sure I understand what you're saying. * THC threshold for a first-time user to register as "completely stoned": $foo * THC level of someone who smoked the maximum amount they could 30 days ago, and hasn't smoked or eaten an edible since: $bar Are you saying that $bar >= $foo?
- estimator7292 1y ago
  The degree to which any given dose of THC affects an individual varies so wildly as to be completely useless as a baseline. To guarantee that 100% of debilitated users are detected, the threshold would have to be so low as to also detect a heavy user who smoked a joint two days ago. Your argument is built on the supposition that there's a hard lower boundary on debilitating dosage. There is no such magic number, or it is nearly indistinguishable from zero.
  - 0_____0 1y ago
    It's sort of shocking. Compared to alcohol, where someone might plausibly get as drunk off of 1 drink as someone else might from 5, with THC the plausible ratio is more like 1:50 between naive and heavy users (IME).
constantcrying 1y ago
That seems to be a very reasonable rule.
- justlikereddit 1y ago
  >"Phosphatidylethanol (PEth) is a direct marker, formed only in the presence of ethanol, and can detect heavy or binge drinking for up to 4 weeks after consumption." We should simultaneously use this marker to prove drunk driving instead of the clearly outdated direct measurements.
  - constantcrying 1y ago
    Totally agree.
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dr_dshiv 1y ago
That’s what Germany does (roughly)
87967646537543 1y ago
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THC can remain in your system and be detected for 30 days. You are effectively proposing that it should be illegal to drive if you have ever used a THC product in the past month

mothballed 1y ago

That's the way it was in my state until it was overturned on appeal, and they only did that due to an accident of the way weed was legalized.

jancsika 1y ago

Not sure I understand what you're saying. * THC threshold for a first-time user to register as "completely stoned": $foo * THC level of someone who smoked the maximum amount they could 30 days ago, and hasn't smoked or eaten an edible since: $bar Are you saying that $bar >= $foo?

estimator7292 1y ago
The degree to which any given dose of THC affects an individual varies so wildly as to be completely useless as a baseline. To guarantee that 100% of debilitated users are detected, the threshold would have to be so low as to also detect a heavy user who smoked a joint two days ago. Your argument is built on the supposition that there's a hard lower boundary on debilitating dosage. There is no such magic number, or it is nearly indistinguishable from zero.
- 0_____0 1y ago
  It's sort of shocking. Compared to alcohol, where someone might plausibly get as drunk off of 1 drink as someone else might from 5, with THC the plausible ratio is more like 1:50 between naive and heavy users (IME).

constantcrying 1y ago

That seems to be a very reasonable rule.

justlikereddit 1y ago
>"Phosphatidylethanol (PEth) is a direct marker, formed only in the presence of ethanol, and can detect heavy or binge drinking for up to 4 weeks after consumption." We should simultaneously use this marker to prove drunk driving instead of the clearly outdated direct measurements.
- constantcrying 1y ago
  Totally agree.
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dr_dshiv 1y ago

That’s what Germany does (roughly)

87967646537543 1y ago

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