Monday, March 29, 2010
DUI Law Briefly Approved
KENTUCKY....
While thinking they were dealing with another subject, the Kentucky House on Monday briefly toughened the state’s drunken driving law. Minutes later, a lawmaker filed a motion for reconsideration, sending the bill back to the House for possible future action. House Bill 265, as amended by the Senate, would prohibit possession or trafficking in “synthetic cannabinoids” — man-made drugs with high levels of THC, which gives marijuana its natural potency. However, the Senate added a section changing portions of the DUI law in which anyone with detectable levels of more than a dozen different types of drugs in their blood would be presumed guilty of DUI, unless they had a valid prescription. The bill drops the legal alcohol level from 0.18 to 0.15.
While thinking they were dealing with another subject, the Kentucky House on Monday briefly toughened the state’s drunken driving law. Minutes later, a lawmaker filed a motion for reconsideration, sending the bill back to the House for possible future action. House Bill 265, as amended by the Senate, would prohibit possession or trafficking in “synthetic cannabinoids” — man-made drugs with high levels of THC, which gives marijuana its natural potency. However, the Senate added a section changing portions of the DUI law in which anyone with detectable levels of more than a dozen different types of drugs in their blood would be presumed guilty of DUI, unless they had a valid prescription. The bill drops the legal alcohol level from 0.18 to 0.15.
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