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Cops around the country are having a hard time figuring out if drivers are stoned. With drunk driving, a breathalyzer test can easily alert officers to heightened blood-alcohol content levels, but with weed, which stays in the body for up to a month, it’s damn-near impossible to determine if a driver lit up 10 minutes or 10 days before getting behind the wheel.
Now, according to U.S. News, legislators in Nevada are trying their hardest to eliminate the DUI confusion and standardize the procedure for stopping stoned drivers. A new bipartisan bill making its way through the Nevada state house would require cops to take a blood test from suspected high drivers, and arrest them only if that blood sample turns up with a blood-THC level of 5 nanograms per milliliter or higher.
Blood tests are more reliable than urine samples when it comes to tracking an individual's cannabis use, but there’s still no foolproof way to determine if someone is actually under the influence of cannabis at any given time.
“There's still no proof that those standards mean anything, but at least we're moving to something which is scientifically provable,” Las Vegas Sen. Tick Segerblom told…
