the main question to me is: what gives the right to police to take you to the station and test this based on their first impression of you. This seems to be a major inconvenience to motorists that are wrongfully classified in what seems to me to be forced stereotyping people. I wonder what impact this will have on race relations. What rights do i hold if i am running late and am forced to travel to the station for this blood test? Can i refuse? Is there accountability for the police officer, what about reimbursement for my time. Can i have some guidelines to what quantities of pot i can smoke and time between smoking and driving. The police and government seem to be wasting my time and millions of tax payer money on this without giving the adequate information to those concerned.
Steven Joyces comment that the drug tests aren't yet advanced enough is an absolute fictional excuse for allowing the huge blood loss to continue. They catch all major risk drugs at appropriate thresholds, and have reduced Australian States road tolls for 4 years now. We're one of the last countries NOT TO USE modern tech - Scandinavian and baltic States, USA and even Malaysia do. I guess we just don't care that our young male toll is world topping and increases by the year - due to ignorance such as that stated above = oh and a few Ministerial advisors being a bit too fond of the stuff behind the top shelf.
You should'nt be drinking or smoking or mobile phone while driving, it is a danger zone to the community..The above should treated as a prison terms up to 3 month unless you kill someone through your own stubidity will be No fuzz no judge, just you and the prison cell..
The government are looking for more and more excuses to force needles into one's body. . . . vaccinations and blood tests either steal one's blood or add something to it. NO ONE is EVER going to stick a needle into my arm and I'll stick it in them first if they try. . . I'd rather walk than have a blood test, and did so for 14 years !
What exactly is classified as a 'drug' ?? . . if they included all the prescription drugs which impair driving they'd probably have to close the roads completely.
There are elements of driving stoned that are trickier, but that almost always makes you go slower. The only real hazard is the blood pressure of those stuck behind your extremely sloooooow maneuver - one that when straight. you'd approach in a handbrake slide, cos it's that easy.The real problem here, and one that us potheads have to respect and thusly avoid driving for, is the P influenced, sleep deprived nutjobs out there.I support getting them off the roads, so accept I take a risk if I drive after a smoke.It'd be nice if they ID'd the substance and fined accordignly...Cannabis = $ 200, Alchohol = $1000 ++, Meth = $ 5000 and 24 months licence and forced rehab, Coke = tell me who your freinds are !
I totally agree with Ian, Hell 3 News got 3 people stoned and made them do a driving course and they were better drivers because, as they admitted, were more paranoid. It's bollocks, drinking impairs your reflexes, most drugs don't (pending what your seeking) and Mushrooms, LSD and Michael Jackson preferred muscle relaxants aside, it is completely faulty logic to assign drinking tests to drugs, especially without the science. Why are we going backwards, wasn't it only a few years back when we came so close to at least making weed a fine. I'm sick of dumb ass laws based on faulty logic and no/ low science content.
I have been driving for ten years never even come close to a accident I smoke every day and as above i would really like to see some science to prove that it Impairs me, I think you’re more likely to have a accident eating while you drive I don’t see a law Against eating a hot pie in the car..........Decriminalize and get on with dealing with real problems like drunks and violent offenders stopWasting money on pot smokers and turning innocent tax payers into criminals we don't hurt anyone other than our own lungs last i checked that wasn't illegal either.
RE: “Eighty percent of cannabis users say their driving wasn’t changed or was even better, and so that’s a worrying attitude,” said Ross Bell. I challenge Ross Bell & the NZ Govt to undertake actual bona fide research to prove actual impairment while driving under the influence of cannabis, causing crash and speed. The big problem with drug testing is it only proves existence of drugs. Do ther science first, leave the moralising to others.