Drug Driving laws - E Petition to make the law fair...PLEASE GET AS MANY PEOPLE TO SIGN IT AS POSSIBLE!!!!!

use this as a starter if you want to.

Responsible department: Department for Transport

The new drug driving laws that which came into effect on March 2nd are not fit for use.

-Except they are. Their aim is to catch people driving stoned. Since the limit is so low they most definitely will.

Drivers are being penalised for being sober when tested but testing positive for previous use,. Which can relate to any time from the day before to over a fortnight ago.

-pretty crap sentences here. Something more along the lines of:

  • -Numerous peer reviewed studies have shown that the stated legal limit of 2ug/L in blood is not sufficient to cause impairment whilst driving Study citation(s) go here. Further to this; the stated limit will crimilaise those who have tried their utmost to comply with the intent of this new law. It has been shown in further peer-review scientific studies that a subject may have a concentration of Delta-9-tetrahydrocannibol above 2ug/L in blood after n days of abstinence. Study citation(s) go here

The drug driving laws should be parallel to the drink driving ones, if you are impared impaired and under the influence you lose your licence. In a court of law there would need to be sufficient evidence to prove the driver was impared impaired as with alcohol related cases so why is it now a different story for illicit and prescription drugs.

-Fucking spelling mistakes man. Has the author even thought for a second about how this will look?! Chrome has it built into the browser for fucks sake!

-Why should drug driving laws be parallel to alcohol? At least for now it's fucking illegal. End of. You'd do far better to draw attention to the fact that the stated limits of prescription pain killers will leave you MUCH more impaired than 2ug/L in blood of THC. Back this up with credible evidence.

-What's being stated about drunk driving is just factually incorrect. There is no need to prove impairment. Just that the driver is over the legal blood alcohol content. Same as is being done with the new laws.

Please rethink and repeal this new law and make amendments before a lot of time and resources is poured into a sprawling pit for the outcome to be disastrous.

  • We agree wholeheartedly that driving whilst impaired, be that due to cannabis or for any other reason is a heinous act and should be punished accordingly. However, we fear that the laws as stated will turn many hard-working, tax-paying British adults, who choose to indulge in cannabis responsibly into criminals. We ask that you review this legislation in comparison to similar laws in practice in America (Washington state and Colorado) where the stated limit of Delta-9-tetrahydrocannibol is much higher (reference here). If you wanted to you could bang on here about criminalisation having been proved to be counter productive in drugs control but I'm bored now peace.
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