THERE’S no doubt the courts are becoming increasingly congested as a result of recently introduced technology that allows police to detect drug use via roadside drug tests.
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As a result of the widespread use of this technology drivers are testing positive for a range of illegal drugs including cannabis.
However the use of cannabis, unlike alcohol, can be detected long after it’s consumed.
In fact lawyers, addiction specialists and even magistrates, claim it can be detected weeks, months or years after it was consumed.
It’s for this reason that there’s a push within the legal fraternity not to charge drivers who have cannabis in their system.
According to lawyers such as Michael Madden the number of drivers who are being charged over the use of cannabis is simply clogging up the legal system and wasting the community’s resources.
Mr Madden said there are currently members of the Orange community who are being unfairly targeted by the law simply because they have barely detectable levels of cannabis in their system.
However the simple fact remains while ever it’s illegal to consume cannabis, drivers, no matter how impaired they are or are not, will continued to be charged and brought before the courts.
Of course if you intend to drive it’s best not to have any alcohol or other drugs in your system, and this includes prescription medicines which may impair your driving ability.
No matter how unfair it may seem to cannabis users it’s every driver’s responsibility to be both law abiding and unimpaired by drugs or alcohol, before they sit behind the wheel.