Can Driving After Smoking Marijuana Get You a DUI?

Could you be prosecuted for a DUI even if you have no alcohol in your system? If you’re using marijuana, even legally with medically prescribed marijuana, and you get behind the wheel you might. This was the case in this Arizona ruling for a “Pot DUI”. Soon, there may be a pot test just like there are currently breathalyzers for alcohol.

There’s currently a breathalyzer being developed by researchers at Washington State University that will test drivers for having marijuana in their system. While four states currently allow the use of mariuana as a recreational drug and many others allow the …read more