But that is the problem. If you draw blood, it can only tell you that they have used canabis sometime during the previous 3 days. They may not still be under the influence or they may very well be. It is not conclusive. You cannot decisively say that someone is under the influence of canabis by a blood or urine test. How do you convict in Holland based on that?


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>>>The chance that you are able to put of robbers by the use a gun is very slim. If you do pull a gun you have about 40 times larger chance you'll be hurt rather than the criminal.
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>Maybe something not entirely aspplicable, http://www.stpt.usf.edu/hhl/papers/gun.control.htm
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>>I would be interested in seeing stats on this. I suspect the percentages may be different in different countries. Also, if guns were banned completely, how would that be done? How do you keep guns out of the hands of the criminals when we can't even keep drugs out of criminals hands?
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>The fact of the matter is that you cannot ban guns from the criminals. Not even here in holland. You'll have to accept that.
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>>Pretty soon you will be able to smoke pot and drive without any fear of any legal repercussion.
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>Interesting that you mention. Do you know of any research project that investigated the influence of canabis on driving? They have investigated this in Holland and it seemed to be insignificant, esspecially when compared with alcohol. Yes, you can smoke pot (if that is canabis) as much as you like here in holland. And if you want to drive there is not much of a likelyhood that you'll be convicted for that. However, we are introducing test, much like alcohol tests, (BTW, are you still checking the use of alcohol by walking over stripes on the road, with touching your nose ??) for checking for drug usage.
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>>Since the urine tests and blood tests only show that you have inhaled or ingested marihuana sometime during the previous 3 days, there is no way to determine that you are currently under the influence or not.
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>Since the effect on driving seems to be insignificant, this question is irrelevant. Also, when you can test for marihunana 3 days after inhalation, it does not mean that it still has its effect. People are not high for 3 days.
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>>How will driving under the influence be enforced?
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>In the same manner as alcohol.
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>>You can't use a field sobriety test - those get thrown out in court because people who are too tired fail those...
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>Draw blood and analyze it. Common practise in holland when they suspect something.
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>Walter,