Pubdate: Wed, 04 Jun 2003
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2003, Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact:  http://www.fyiottawa.com/ottsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
Author: Alan Randell
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n798/a02.html
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?224 (Cannabis and Driving)

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS CAN CAUSE DRIVER ERROR

Re "Hell on wheels," (editorial, May 30): I've heard many reasons for 
continuing to punish marijuana users, but to urge a wait-and-see strategy 
until the cops can easily measure the marijuana level of drivers is the 
most bizarre yet.

Marijuana's use is commonplace right now and marijuana-induced motor 
vehicle accidents are conspicuous by their absence.

There is no roadside test for any one of a number of prescription drugs 
that can cause driver error. To be consistent, you should call for those 
drugs to be banned as well.

Alan Randell

(For that argument to work, we'd have to think marijuana offered the same 
benefits as prescription medicine -- we don't)
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