Ha ha ha! Awww ... poor DAs getting butthurt over a few facts and smart juries.

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Ha ha ha! Awww ... poor DAs getting butthurt over a few facts and smart juries.

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Colorado prosecutors are getting frustrated at jurors for daring to exercise rationality instead of blindly following the will of the State.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/colorado-juries-keep-letting-people-go-driving-weed-prosecutors-and-cops-are?akid=13700.1943781.3d_kP8&rd=1&src=newsletter1046232&t=22

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John McGowan said…
Am I misreading the study's conclusion? http://www.drugandalcoholdependence.com/article/S0376-8716(15)00314-2/abstract?cc=y=.  

It states that swerving in the lane was just as bad on THC as it was on alcohol (albeit, CO's legal limit for THC is ~40% less than the legal limit for alcohol according to the study).  Also, the study did not look at reaction time which would be a larger factor in accidents than swerving in their lane or failure to maintain a steady speed.

The article implies that there is zero affect on a person's driving capabilities when using THC, but the study doesn't seem to be saying that.
November 25, 2015 at 9:01 AM
Jason ON said…
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871615003142

If I'm reading the article correctly, and I am, the jurors are siding with defendants because the THC level of 5 is an arbitrary number not supported by any facts. Per the study, for the same effect as "legally drunk" the THC count needs tocbe almost three times the legal number.
November 25, 2015 at 11:02 AM
John McGowan said…
Ah, I see, the graph makes the correlation much clearer (I didn't see the graph in the link I found).
November 25, 2015 at 11:12 AM
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