On 2018-10-18 4:20 PM, notbob wrote:
> On 10/18/2018 8:08 AM, wrote:
>
>> Have they perfected a good method for catching stoned drivers in
>> Colorado?
>
> CO hasn't even "perfected" a method of dealing with drunk drivers.Â* I
> recently (five yrs ago) read (Denver Post) of a lady who had KILLLED 3
> ppl and she had yet to be jailed fer longer than a month.Â* Apparently,
> booze gets a pass.


That's another of my pet peeves about drinking and driving punishment.
They are sometimes harder on people who blow over the limit than they
are on those who cause accidents and fatalities. There was a case up
here of a serial drunk driver. He had been convicted for blowing over
the limit more than a dozen times, so he got a couple years in jail. He
had not crashed and had not killed or hurt anyone, just drove over the
limit.

Around the same time there was a local woman who crashed her car,
killing her friend. She got 6 months of house arrest. WTF? We have laws
about BAC because we want to prevent worst case scenarios, and this was
one of those worst case scenarios.



>
> Cannabis, nada.Â* Too much revenue coming in.Â*
>
> nb

On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:02:31 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2018-10-18 4:20 PM, notbob wrote:
>> On 10/18/2018 8:08 AM, wrote:
>>
>>> Have they perfected a good method for catching stoned drivers in
>>> Colorado?
>>
>> CO hasn't even "perfected" a method of dealing with drunk drivers.* I
>> recently (five yrs ago) read (Denver Post) of a lady who had KILLLED 3
>> ppl and she had yet to be jailed fer longer than a month.* Apparently,
>> booze gets a pass.
>
>
>That's another of my pet peeves

Oh no, not another one!

On 10/18/2018 3:02 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

> That's another of my pet peeves about drinking and driving punishment.

Yeah, I've got enough of my own.

Notice how the fines keep getting stiffer/higher and yet pols keep
making it easier to get booze?

CA did NOT stop me from drinking/driving, but CO did. Wanna guess why?

CA returns yer drivers license in one year. CO returns yer driver
license in 30 days .....BUT, CO requires you call in, every morning, to
see if you are required, by law, to pee in a cup on that particular day.
That goes on fer one year! I hadda take an acquaintance down to be
tested fer part of that 30 days. I have not drank/drove, since.

nb