HHGull
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[News] Drink / Drugs checks
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Prescription drugs that can impair driving have warnings on the bottle/box. If you drive after taking them, and have an accident, it makes no difference to the charge.
Mustafa II
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Why are there not spot checks for these like all the other drugs?
maffew
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That's about 7.5 spliffs per day, every day for 20 years. Or 1 around around every say couple of hours awake
Have you been smoking much longer than 20 years? Say 40 years? Then maybe it's only 3 to 4 joints per day, and just 1 every 3 to 4 hours awake for 40 years.
How many pizzas have you munched do you reckon? I'd need a pizza or/and a couple of packets of monster munch and a galaxy caramel/some fruit pastilles each smoke easy, washed down with a pint of milk. Man I'd be well fat after 50k reefas
Oh you'd probably be over the limit driving for a decade at least from now btw
- Oct 20, 2022
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Who would decide if you are or are not impaired or intoxicated by the alcohol/drugs still in your system especially after the alleged event had taken place? - the whole point of testing is that it is an objective test based on legally defined levels of drugs/alcohol in ones system at the time of testing that deems you to be over the legal limit, not how well you think you can perform certain tasks.
I should probably add that you really shouldn’t be arguing with a chemist about the effects of drugs on the body - especially an autistic one
Watch it.Who would decide if you are or are not impaired or intoxicated by the alcohol/drugs still in your system especially after the alleged event had taken place? - the whole point of testing is that it is an objective test based on legally defined levels of drugs/alcohol in ones system at the time of testing that deems you to be over the legal limit, not how well you think you can perform certain tasks.
I should probably add that you really shouldn’t be arguing with a chemist about the effects of drugs on the body - especially an autistic one
I'm a pharmacologist, not a chemist.
Anyway you are arguing law not pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics. And you are of course correct.
Hope you are enjoying some nice weather up North East.
portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
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Look all this what about iffery is ridiculous. Drivers with Alcohol and illegal drugs in system can be lethal. A Lemsip isn’t.
I do find more brazen use of cannabis these days, and from very early in the morning. So I'm not against this to be honest...
The use of it has changed I think, I used to get the odd whiff of it around evening time when I am out walking the dog or whatever, and it was mild and didn't bother me. Now on several morning walks to the train station, its been thick in the air, and obviously mixed with something else (or new varieties), its really strong!
Has the use of it changed as people "think" its more acceptable or should be legalised?
The use of it has changed I think, I used to get the odd whiff of it around evening time when I am out walking the dog or whatever, and it was mild and didn't bother me. Now on several morning walks to the train station, its been thick in the air, and obviously mixed with something else (or new varieties), its really strong!
Has the use of it changed as people "think" its more acceptable or should be legalised?
Because the drugs themselves are legal?
I feel you have ground your axe a bit too much now.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Mate, I want to be your weed guy
Who would decide if you are or are not impaired or intoxicated by the alcohol/drugs still in your system especially after the alleged event had taken place? - the whole point of testing is that it is an objective test based on legally defined levels of drugs/alcohol in ones system at the time of testing that deems you to be over the legal limit, not how well you think you can perform certain tasks.
I should probably add that you really shouldn’t be arguing with a chemist about the effects of drugs on the body - especially an autistic one
As I mentioned above the roadside test for illegal drugs isn’t to see if you are above the level at which you are impaired, it is to see if you have any level above which you could have “accidentally” been exposed to. It’s why it is called zero tolerance. Personally I don’t agree but that’s the rule. Nobody is impaired four days after smoking weed but there may still be enough trace to fail a roadside test.
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Coming back in the coach from West Ham Saturday night, we got diverted through Westerham and Oxted. All along that road were pubs packed with revelers having a great time and every pub had a full car park. Not all drivers drink, but makes you wonder.
PascalGroß Tips
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- Jan 29, 2024
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Apart from one or two cigarettes I smoked when I was 14/15 - which I hated and never repeated - I've never considered taking or smoking anything else. I know that my next door neighbour smokes weed/cannabis ... we can smell it almost every time we go into our house as he's not allowed to smoke in his rented house (the front doors are quite close to each other). He's back driving having been banned for drink driving a few years ago (that didn't stop him popping down to the local shop in his car when he was banned).
I'm guessing (an educated guess) that he smokes most days. And he drives most days - so assume if he was stopped and tested, he'd probably fail the test.
So I'm wondering how many people who do smoke, will leave it say 4 days before driving? Do people that smoke weed generally do so on a regular basis? Or is it a weekend thing for many?
Gabbafella
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- Aug 22, 2012
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Apologies for the slow response, suffering with man-flu.
As others have touched on, prescription drugs come with warnings about not driving or operating machinery etc.
I honestly don't know how that affects any charges should an accident occur or insurance cover.