EDITORIAL: Bill would help get more drugged drivers off the road |
There are several accurate ways for police to determine whether someone has been breaking the law by driving under the influence of alcohol.
It’s easy to identify alcohol as a source of intoxication, and mobile breath-analyzers and blood draws can accurately pinpoint the amount of alcohol in a driver’s system at the time of arrest.
But it’s nowhere nearly as easy for police to specifically measure a driver’s level of impairment or intoxication based on drugs, or even to identify the specific drug the driver was using.
With an ever-changing number of synthetic drugs and with people getting high on household products in addition to more traditional substances, New York’s laws haven’t kept up.
If police can’t identify the........