by Eli Stone
reprinted from The Mountain Jackpot, Teller County, Co.

Dear Senator and member of the The Colorado Senate Committee on State, Veterans and Military Affairs:

• In 2010, 600 of Colorado’s 3.7 million drivers were involved in a fatal crash. Of those… 600, 42 tested positive for active THC or inactive THC metabolites. Of those 42, 10 were also drunk, 3 more were drinking, 9 had additional drugs, leaving 20 THC drivers with only active or inactive THC in their blood at the time of the accident.

• The average fatal crash rate for Colorado drivers is 600/3.7M = 16.2 per 100k drivers. The fatal crash rate of pot smokers is 42/400k = 10.5 per 100k pot smokers. We can conclude that Colorado pot smokers are 35% less likely to be involved in a fatal crash than the average Colorado driver.

• Congress is considering offering ALL baby boomers a FREE hepatitus test…it is epidemic and many do not know they have it. The costs of one law suit for a mandated test being the cause of a blood carried disease would far out weigh the costs to Coloradoans to DUPLICATE evidence taking of some kind of a roadside behavior that impairs driving, i.e. already enough laws on the books to cover punishment for impairment on ALL drugs.

According to the federal government, Colorado had 612,000 pot smokers in 2010, with 400,000 of these smoking at least once per month. Since THC metabolites are detectable for at least 30 days, any of these drivers will test positive after an accident.

See the complete article with links to source material at the Canna Wes facebook notes page.

Please send your letter to the Committee members emails:

steve.king.senate@state.co.us, james.kerr.house@state.co.us, don.coram.house@state.co.us, randy.baumgardner.house@state.co.us, edward.casso.house@state.co.us, crisanta.duran.house@state.co.us, larry.liston.house@state.co.us, nancy.todd.house@state.co.us, mark.waller.house@state.co.us, lois.court.house@state.co.us