ARGUMENTS DRAW LINE: CRIMINALS VS. PATIENTS

I agree with your editorial. Proponents of marijuana use would have
you believe that impairment testing is commercially available and
reliable. There is no generally available, evidence-based,
accredited, economical impairment test, nor one that can be
administered effectively in the Oregon workplace.

Law enforcement personnel who are responsible for keeping the
roadways free of impaired drivers administer a form of field sobriety
testing but not by using some kind of novel "impairment test."
Instead they administer a collection of sobriety tests. These tests
are time-consuming to perform correctly.

If there were a readily available, reliable impairment test for use
in addressing workplace substance abuse, it already would have been
considered, accepted, validated and put into use on a federal level,
but that has yet to happen.

Grant Beardsley

Clinical toxicologist

Eugene