A bill aiming to curb impaired driving has been derailed and will now criminalise thousands of non-impaired drivers, especially cannabis users. I had called a previous version of the Bill “pretty good” – but the Bill has changed and that rose-tinted assessment is now out the window. Those listed by ESR as drug drivers were those with any trace over zero, whereas the drink drivers were only included if their levels were over the legal limit. If the “drug drivers” had the same criteria the figures would be very different. In any case, the Bill proposed to calibrate the testing to detect impairment, at a level consistent with the legal drink driving limit.

Source: Stuff November 20, 2021 18:41 UTC