Cannabis legalization: Drug-impaired charges could lead to court backlog

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Canada's decision to legalize cannabis will create a backlog in the courts as those charged with driving while drug-impaired are sure to launch a wave of legal challenges, a lawyer who specializes in impaired driving cases says.

 

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Markham, who banned use, already had someone with weed in their system, crash into a diesel transport truck last night. It only took 3 days.

Wait a minute - before Oct 17 no one smoked weed? Now there is a concern of a lineup of stoned drivers? Your headline “COULD LEAD TO...” is it based on a guess? Science? Historical data? Or... are you guys hitting the bong and dreaming up stories 🤪😜

so it won't be the onslaught of beastiality charges from the newly enacted law ?

This is the problems you reap from back pedalling to appease voters. They pushed legalisation for almost a year so that we could be not prepared at all? What were police doing this whole time? Maybe fighting legalisation instead of preparing?

Crime on the rise! You bet

More Trudeau BULLSHIT

Because they're going to be charging people with impaired that aren't really impaired

Legal cluster f**k! 🤣🤣🤣 Take that Trudeau!

How many impaired driving charges from alcohol vs marijuana have been filed this week?

If you have impaired vision and coordination you should not be driving. If it is not due the the cannabis in your system then you have a more serious problem and should have your drivers license revoked.

all dead and all of the knife dope on dopers eye now

they were driving before legalization....the hype is getting over the top....its not ground breaking sheesh!

Wow! And they're just thinking that through now..... Genius.... Absolute heniua!!

Maybe they should have prepared for this by checking drivers over the past few decades. You’re not going to suddenly have more people DUI. You are just now coming down on them.

ctvqp Like all the other crimes backing up the system..

Uh... cause there are no court backlogs now😄

People need to read the article before they comment. If you did, you wouldn't be commenting like 'pot heads aren't all of a sudden going to be flooding the roads' The article talks about how inaccurate the DREE testing is and as a result will be wrongfully used in court.

Welcome to the start of a real nightmare!

Cannabis being legal will lead to hundreds of problems, all costing money. However, JustinTrudeau ONLY cares about the increased revenue he is counting on to maintain his typically liberal, out-of-control SPENDING habit!!

Because no one got high before legalization.

This wasnt was rushed its been happening for over 3yrs.

That is the whole point of 'legalization'. Socialism requires stagnation.

You mean we weren’t ready and Trudeau pushed his through to meet ONE stupid election promise without enough trained police drug officers, we have 180 and need 2000, and NO reliable roadside test So Trudeau has NO regard for the safety of Canadians..is that what you’re saying?

With no machine to give 100% proof this was going to happen...Good thing the government didn't rush the legalization along..cannabiscanada

all of the pot users didn't suddenly lose their minds. If they weren't driving high before they're not suddenly going to start. And it's not like the police had no power to pull high people off the road before.

Somehow, i don't think trudeau thought about consequences of his legislation. He only looks at how many votes will it get him. Typical socialist.

Every1 there needs that bad high

Wonderful that the government thought this through so well eh?

Lol, just stop with the nonsense.

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