How do cops accuse someone who is driving high?

Question

and if they do find out they are high do they just the same penalty as a drunk driver?

Answer 1

Driving under the influence means under the influence of any substance impairing ones ability to operate a motor vehicle safely.  Field Sobriety tests are usually given regardless of what substance a person may be taken.  The results are almost always the same-even if you've taken something as simple as Tylenol PM.  If your impaired-your impaired and the tests will indicate that.

Answer 2

No its alil more sericous than driving drunk and cops just know if someone is high, they are trained to know this type of info

Answer 3

The penalties and statutes are specific state by state, so I can only tell you NYS's set-up.

There are two ways to prosecute somebody for DWI in NY.  1st is VTL 1192.3 which simply prescribes intoxicated driving - this can be estavblished by observations of the officer as to your condition (smell of an alcoholic beverage, slurred speech, low attention, loss of equilibrium, red and watery eyes, etc).  A separate section, 1192.2 specifies you're having a BAC of .08 (formerly .10).  Unsurprisingly, 1192.3 is always charged.  Both are misdemeanors in NY with equal time, but another statute elevates the crime to a felony if the defendant has prior DWI convictions in his past.

Answer 4

A DUI means (driving under the influence) but does not stop

at alcohol. <|:-})-{*

Answer 5

during a routine pull over, the cop places a box of double stuffed oreo's in plain sight of the suspected pot user and tells him NOT to touch it

If the suspect can not take his eyes off box of cookies or touches them, he is immediately arrested.

Same penalties as a drunk driver.

Answer 6

They will give you a DUI for driving high, they may call it a DWI but it's the same thing. As for how they find out if you get caught with pot they will probably give you a sobriety test. The bad thing is this, people are idiots when it comes to marijuana, first off look it's illegal when it has never caused a death but alcohol and tobacco which cause hundreds of thousands a year are legal go figure. Anyhow, even if you smoked pot two weeks ago it will show up in your system. The way the law is written if you have pot in your system  you can get a DWI. So basically two weeks after you got high you are not under the influence but in the eyes of the law can still get a DUI and are called impaired just because you have pot in  your system.

Answer 7

It is still Driving under the influence (DUI).

Also other possible charges are; Public endangerment; Abuse of a controlled substance.

Personnalt I feel drug abuse should be a capital crime.