Ever taken a field sobriety test?
Stoned driving has been a recurrent topic in Colorado s recreational marijuana era, from the continued debate about the state s (5 nanograms of active THC per milliliter of blood) to the regarding highway fatalities, to the that bemoaned the lack of roadside testing options for law enforcement.
shadowed a Colorado State Patrol officer and documented what happened when one sandals-wearing, Mustang-driving motorist was put through the paces in a roadside stoned driving test by CSP Cpl. Roger Meyers, a specially trained drug recognition expert.
Meyers tells Sandell that my marijuana evaluations have gone up.
Colorado started out the year with increased law enforcement training in the Drug Recognition Expert program. According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, who have completed training to identify drivers who are under the influence of drugs other than alcohol, . CSP has the most DREs among state law enforcement agencies, with 51.
The effort for extra training was partially funded through a .
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