Monday, July 31, 2017

Cannabis and impairment

One of the issues with legal use of cannabis is the unavailability of any test to reliably test for impairment (for driving, for example) after its use.  It's why some employers (airlines, railways, defence forces) will simply have a zero tolerance of its use.  

This story at NPR notes the problem it presents for policing in Colorado. 

4 comments:

John said...

As a start they could try the Stroop Test which has a very long history and is an indicator of attentional and inhibition impairment. An incident a friend told me about highlights some issues. His mate was flying a Cessna and radioed Archerfield airport for landing instructions. He thought he was approaching the airport, he was somewhere over Toowoomba. He would smoke joints during the flights ...

Anonymous said...

More equality? Tick
Signatory to the Paris accords? Tick

Modern face of leftism and what it does to a country.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/31/venezuela-braces-day-fresh-violence-wake-maduro-power-grab-victory/

not trampis said...

here is an example of writing impairment!

Steve said...

It's tediously childish, this wingnut claim that anything other than their purist version of right wing policy is setting a country on the dangerous path to violent failed socialist statehood. One may as well argue that economic reform along free market lines is impossible without ending up with a few thousand people being dropped into the sea via copter, a la Pinochet.