Originally Posted By: Ducked
Originally Posted By: Shannow
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/n...24f15bd82961f8a
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Of the more than 33,619 motorists tested by police last year, more than 720 of them were found to have drugs in their system.
This is in stark contrast to one in 208 motorists caught driving over the alcohol limit.
"We began drug testing motorists in 2007 after a study showed high marijuana use in fatal accidents,'' Mr Hartley said. "It was a bit of a wake-up call and we have been increasing testing every year.''
Police are changing too, with less people driving after drinking, moving to morning testing to catch those driving after a binge night.
"Have drugs in their system" and being over a statutory limit for alcohol don't seem, on the face of it, comparable cases, assuming the alcohol limit is based on impairment.
Cannabis, for example, is extremely persistent in the body and its metabolites may be detectable in urine a month after last use, when there may no longer be any demonstrable impairment.
I agree...
That's why the roadside drug tests are cheek swabs (just like the one pictured in the article that I linked to). Not a urine test, and a positive swab doesn't initiate a urine/blood test either. Active cannibis, opiates, coke, and meth.
They are a PITA, as there's about a 15min turnaround, and you have to sit there for that and wait.
At work, we have random D and A. 0.02% BAC and a cheek swab.
Local mines do cheek swabs for the miners, and urine tests for the office workers...that's pretty telling.