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All DUI convictions, whether booze or pot, should be a felony and carry a minimum one year license suspension. Let's stop coddling these killers. DUI is a violent drug crime.
'Drive High, Get a DUI' campaign launches in Colorado to stop stoned driving - Story
Mar 6, 2014
DENVER - Colorado is launching a new "Drive High, Get A DUI" campaign to remind drivers that newly legal weed should be treated like alcohol and not consumed before driving.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper calls this a top priority, and wants at least 300 officers to be trained with this certification by next year.
During 56 hours of training, officers are taught a 12-step process for recognizing the symptoms of drivers who may be impaired by a variety of drugs or alcohol. With marijuana, the officers are taught to look for enlarged pupils, sniff for the drug's odor and look for small tremors in the driver's body.
"We teach them to look at certain things, and it is kind of an elimination process," said Sgt. Rodney Noga from the Colorado State Patrol.
Officers also check blood pressure, muscle softness and look for injection sites for other kinds of drug use. If drivers fail the observation test, a blood test is the next option to confirm or deny the presence of drug or alcohol impairment.