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The Skanner News - WA High Court: Drivers Can Get DUIs for Driving While High The Skanner News - WA High Court: Drivers Can Get DUIs for Driving While High

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WA High Court: Drivers Can Get DUIs for Driving While High

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Associated Press Published: 13 May 2022

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- The Washington state Supreme Court ruled Thursday people can be cited for driving under the influence for driving while high, a decision that upholds the state's decade-old law regulating marijuana use behind the wheel of a car.

The Seattle Times reports all nine justices rejected Douglas Fraser's argument that his 2017 DUI was based on an arbitrary and vague standard for THC levels in the blood. Although the justices acknowledged that the correlation between THC levels and impairment is challenging to pinpoint, they found that blood measurements nevertheless provide a useful and constitutionally acceptable measurement.

"Although this limit may not be perfect in terms of identifying degree of impairment for all individuals, it is reasonably and substantially related to recent consumption, which is related to impairment," Justice G. Helen Whitener wrote in the court's majority opinion, which was signed by her eight colleagues.

Fraser's case

A Washington State Patrol trooper pulled over Fraser in July 2017 after seeing him speeding, driving alone in an HOV lane, changing lanes erratically and cutting off other drivers, according to the trooper.

When the trooper approached the car, he noticed Fraser was wearing an employee badge from a local cannabis dispensary, which Fraser then removed.

The trooper said Fraser was shaking, sweating and had dark circles under his eyes.

According to the trooper, Fraser said he had smoked "half a day" earlier but that he no longer felt impaired. After performing several field tests, the trooper arrested Fraser on suspicion of DUI.

A test later showed Fraser had a THC blood concentration of 9.4 nanograms per milliliter, with a margin of error of 2.5. That put his THC blood concentration above the state's 5 ng/ml limit.

Fraser argued in court that the limit was not correlated to any real measure of impairment and was therefore arbitrary, vague and unconstitutional. He backed his opinion with testimony from a doctor who said the effect of a given level of THC can vary significantly from person to person, depending on body fat and frequency of cannabis use.

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prohibitionist	prohibition_agency	drugwar_propaganda	legalization	drug_reformer
reform_referenda	cannabis	stimulant	narcotic	hallucinogen

incarceration/prison mentioned? NO - the issue of prison or incarceration was NOT mentioned in this article .

propaganda analysis

EXP - explicit prohibition propaganda (explicit_propaganda)	GRP - hated group (propaganda_theme1)	MAD - madness, violence, illness (propaganda_theme2)
SOC - survival of society (propaganda_theme3)	USE - gateway, use is abuse (propaganda_theme4)	KID - children (propaganda_theme5)
WAR - demonize, war, epidemic (propaganda_theme6)	TOT - total prohibition (propaganda_theme7)	DIS - dissent opposed (propaganda_theme8)

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	drug of abuse implied / mentioned drug related [news] [concept]	illegal drugs
	propaganda drugwar propaganda [news] [concept]	propaganda theme2 propaganda theme3 propaganda theme4 propaganda theme8		•Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate? (Bruce E Levine, 2012) •Classic Modern Drug Propaganda •Themes in Chemical Prohibition •Drug War Propaganda (kindle edition)
	madness, violence, illness propaganda theme2 75% [news] [concept]	"Violence" "sweating" "impairment" "impaired" "driving under the influence"	13	•Madness Crime Violence Illness (propaganda theme 2) •drugwarfacts.org/crime.htm •drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm •Distortion 18: Cannabis and Mental Illness •No, marijuana use doesn't lower your IQ (10/2014)
	survival of society propaganda theme3 75% [news] [concept]	"public health" "the country"	2	•Survival of Society (propaganda theme 3) •The "Nation" as a Device To Create a Psychological Crowd
	use is abuse use is abuse [news] [concept]	"cannabis use" "marijuana use"	2	•Use is Abuse (propaganda theme 4) •drugwarfacts.org/addictiv.htm
	gateway, use is abuse propaganda theme4 [news] [concept]	use is abuse		•Use is Abuse, Gateway (propaganda theme 4)
	dissent opposed propaganda theme8 50% [news] [concept]	secret evidence		•Dissent Attacked (propaganda theme 8) •From Martin Luther King to Anonymous, governments target dissenters not just "bad guys" (2014)
	drug of abuse illegal drugs [news] [concept]	cannabis
	compassion club compassion club [news] [concept]	"cannabis dispensary" "dispensary"	2
	NSA/DEA/local PD - Spying and Lying Scandal secret evidence 50% [news] [concept]	"pulled over"	1	•biblehub.com/luke/12-3.htm •Routine Traffic Stop? Anonymous Tip? - DEA Manual Coaches Government Prosecutors to Lie in Court to Evade Truth about NSA Tapping Domestic Phone Content, to Bust People for Pot (2014) •Justice Dept to Notify Defendants on Surveillance (2013) •reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/u... •DEA SOD (Special Operations Division) •privacysos.org/node/1291 •Brady disclosure •Fruit of the poisonous tree •takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/201... •sjlendman.blogspot.ca/2013/09/ns... •NSA Listening to Rumrunners During Prohibition I (2014) •All Your Communications in Eternal Dragnet, Searched for Keywords (2014) •How NSA, DEA and Your Local Police Illegally Collude to use Wiretap Content, to Bust You for Pot (2014) •https://pressfreedomfoundation.org •Secret Police Search Engine for DEA/NSA/Local PD - Target: Your Real-Time Wiretap Transcripts (2014) •Secret Law (2016) •https://www.eff.org/action
	psychoactive plant plants [news] [concept]	cannabis		•erowid.org/plants/plants.shtml
	intoxicant [news] [concept]	cannabis
	medical cannabis [news] [concept]	compassion club		•medicalmarijuanaprocon.org/ •drugwarfacts.org/medicalm.htm •mapinc.org/mmj.htm •mapinc.org/find?253 •Cannabis Treats Anxiety, Depression And Activates Pathways That Regulate Emotional Behavior (2014) •The Flower (video cartoon)
	cannabis [news] [concept]	"marijuana" "cannabis" "THC" medical cannabis	9	•Cannabis: Religious and Spiritual Uses •Cannabis-Driving Studies •MAPInc.org Cannabis Link DB •medicalmarijuanaprocon.org •cannabisculture.com •Schaffer Library: Marijuana •drugwarfacts.org/marijuan.htm •mapinc.org/pot.htm •U.S. Prisons Thriving on Jim Crow Marijuana Arrests (2013)
	school [news] [concept]	"School"	2	•ssdp.org/
	aggrandizing government aggrandizement [news] [concept]	"Official" "officials"	3	•Statism: the Most Dangerous Religion (2014 video) •What is Statism? •Conservapedia: Statism •Wikipedia: Statolatry •lewrockwell.com/2014/07/thomas-d... •Bought Priesthood •Worship of the U. S. Government (2011) •Bureaucratic Thrust •Tyranny of Experts •The Threat of Authority (2012) •The Media As Enablers of Government Lies •The Statist Mindset (Jacob Hornberger, 2011) •Thinking Critically about Experts and Authority •'Scientific' evidence for FDA-approved drugs isn't so scientific, it turns out (2014) •The Intellectual Gravy Train (2015)
	mainstream (controlled) media msm [news] [concept]	mockingbird		•Mainstream Media •whowhatwhy.org/2014/04/09/media-... •archive.lewrockwell.com/orig14/a... •Michael Levine, Mainstream Media: The Drug War Shills •beforeitsnews.com/alternative/20... •Mainstream Media: The Most Significant Threat To Freedom •msm.rt.com/ •sputniknews.com/europe/20160225/...
	Mockingbird / Wurlitzer; US intel-controlled media mockingbird [news] [concept]	assoc press		•Operation Mockingbird - Mighty Wurlitzer •carlbernstein.com/magazine cia a... •US Media Conceals News (2013) •Two of the Largest American Newspapers Opine in Favor of Allowing States to Legalize Marijuana (2012) •reuters.com/article/2014/07/27/u... •https://web.archive.org/web/2013... •Propaganda 101: Operation Mockingbird Continues (2015)
	assoc press [news] [concept]	"Associated Press" "AP"	2	•carlbernstein.com/magazine cia a... •Associated Press (AP) - Mockingbird / Wurlitzer

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