Does marijuana impair your ability to drive a car?

Does marijuana impair your ability to drive a car?

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I'm probably one of the few people in the country that should have the right and does have the right to drive using medical cannabis. I get no euphoric effect. I ran a furniture business at the time, this was in the 70s. When we were putting the protocol together, Robert Randall, as brilliant as he and Alice O'Leary were, they go, “Well, we've got to deal with this, because you drive”. So they put in the protocol that I'm able to operate dangerous machinery as long as I'm not intoxicated, because I get no intoxication. So that's the way it was approved. So now, if and when I get pulled over, which does happen at times, the policemen first, I explain everything, that it's legal. I mean, I've had guns pulled on me by a cop. After they understand it's legal, they go, “Well, you can't drive with this”. And I pull out a copy of my protocol, which I always keep with me, and I go “Read this”. And they read it and I go, “Am I intoxicated to you?” And they go, “No.” That's why I drive. Driving to me is just like any other natural act. It doesn't affect me in any way. Therefore I'm able to drive. I know there are states now passing laws saying that if something happens and they do a blood test on you and you have metabolites in your system that you're impaired, and that's not true. That's why I've come public, showing me driving and smoking. Because it's not true that someone that smoked a joint a week before, two weeks before, whatever, is impaired. That's like saying, “Well, gosh. You had a glass of champagne two weeks ago, you're drunk.” I don't know how they're getting away with these laws. How they're putting them on the books, because it's ridiculous. If anybody pulls me in any state, I've got Steptoe and Johnson as a law firm, in DC, pro bono. I will sue them. It's my medicine, it's in my body provided by the federal government and federal law supersedes state law in this country. I'm a federal patient and I have a federal right to smoke and drive, and I do.