MARIJUANA STAYS MONTH IN BLOOD

Re: Sparks of New Life for Pot Bill

This new law would give police "the power to force drivers suspected of
drug use to submit" to blood tests. Not stated in this article is the fact
that under the proposed law, any amount of illegal substances in the blood,
no matter how small, will lead to charges.

A marijuana buzz lasts a maximum of two hours but evidence of marijuana use
remains in the blood for a minimum of 30 days. This means that police will
soon be charging people with impaired driving because of a joint they
smoked a month earlier.

Kane Slater,
Toronto