NEWS Local Spirit Airline Pilot Dead of Heroin Overdose

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Then there should be a a test for impairment instead of an arbitrary blood test like with alcohol. Some people are impaired the moment they wake up. Some are impaired at .04, others somewhere past .08. Some people can smoke a bowl and drive just fine, others can't.

There are tests, they are called " Standardized Field Sobriety Tests" which are specifically designed to identify people that are impaired to the point that they are less safe drivers. In Georgia, any amount of THC or the byproducts of other illegal drugs are ground for a DUI conviction. I'm not familiar with other state's laws but it would not surprise me if there were threshold amounts in other jurisdictions.

DUI/DWI law is in flux as now the consequences are severe enough that appellate decisions are constantly changing how and what LE can do. When a DUI cost you a few hundred dollars and an increase in insurance, many fewer cases went all the way through the process, but now it makes sense financially to fight them to the nth degree.