Unfortunately, there is no known accurate method for testing drivers for being under the influence of cannabis. However, that did not stop Governor Rick Snyder from adopting a measure that will give Michigan State Police (MSP) the ability to begin a roadside testing pilot program in order to determine whether or not someone has been smoking marijuana. Luckily for smokers, the one-year pilot program is not going to be established throughout the entire state. Instead, police are going to choose five counties where they are going to give people saliva tests if they believe that they have been using cocaine, marijuana, or heroin.
A representative of the MSP stated that the five counties are not going to be chosen by the end of the summer, but it will be “sometime later in the year.” The new pilot program was inspired by a fatal car accident that occurred all the way in 2013 in City of Escanaba. During this accident, a tractor-trailer ran a red light and hit another vehicle in which both drivers were killed. The driver of the tractor-trailer tested positive for marijuana in his system and was thus convicted of driving a vehicle under the influence leading to someone’s death. The man received almost five and a half years in prison. Senator Rick Jones used to be a police officer and is working hard to ensure that there is nobody driving under the influence.
“This has been needed way back when I was a police officer for 31 years,” Senator Jones said in an interview. “You’ve got to have a way to test for drugs, and this is a simple saliva system — it’s a little plastic spoon with a sponge on it, you put it in a test tube and in a few minutes you know if somebody’s on cocaine, heroin, meth or marijuana.”
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