c-46 cannabis impaired driving
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Bill C-46 is an important piece of the puzzle to go along with Bill C-45, which is the legalization of cannabis. Bill C-46 does deal with impairment by cannabis, and there will be saliva-based testing.
As a member of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, I look forward to hearing the scientific evidence from legal experts, scientists, and so on as to how this roadside screening will work. I am looking forward to hearing that testimony as soon as this place can get the bill to committee.
https://openparliament.ca/bills/42-1/C-46/
---) me: that the road side test is saliva based is important , not all machines are saliva based
Here how it will work:
We must take action, and bill C-46 will enable police officers who legally stop drivers at the side of the road to ask them to provide an oral fluid sample, if they have reasonable suspicions and believe that drugs are present in a driver’s body.
A positive reading would then help establish reasonable grounds to believe that an offence had been committed. This is an important key measure in the legalization and strict regulation of cannabis.
This important bill will allow an officer who has reasonable grounds to believe that an offence has been committed to contact an “evaluating officer”. The “evaluating officer” will then conduct an evaluation of the drug use by taking a blood sample. Next, the bill will create three new offences based on specified levels of a drug in a person’s blood within two hours after driving.
Obviously, the penalties would depend on the drug type and the levels or the combination of drugs and alcohol. These offences will be considered on the basis of the levels of active ingredients in the blood, but will also be harsher and will be “hybrid offences” where a driver has a combination of alcohol and cannabis. For example, a hybrid offence will be punishable by a mandatory fine of $1,000 and the penalty will escalate, including days of imprisonment for repeat offenders.
(same link as above)
---)me: the saliva test is only used to give the police reasonable doubts that the individual is under the influence of some drug (the test at the police station will detect various drugs, like cocaine etc..)
so this would not apply in Canada:
https://420intel.com/articles/2017/09/20/massachusetts-court-roadside-drunken-driving-tests-not-valid-pot?utm_source=420+Intel+-+Marijuana+Industry+News&utm_campaign=75d9f6fff1-420+Intel&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3210cbef52-75d9f6fff1-278149605
M. Bill Blair said:
The oral fluid drug screener would detect THC, cocaine, and methamphetamine. In the future, more drugs will be able to be detected by these oral fluid drug screeners as the technology evolves.
https://openparliament.ca/bills/42-1/C-46/?singlepage=1
----) these are the two road side system that was use in a special cannabis detection project
Two oral fluid screening devices – the Securetec DrugRead and Alere DDS-2 – were selected for the pilot project. Oral fluid screening devices can detect the recent presence of several drugs, including THC from cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamines, opioids, benzodiazepines and amphetamines, PSC said in the statement.
https://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/insurance/oral-fluid-drug-screening-devices-can-successfully-used-canada-public-safety-canada-reports-1004114882/
---) this sound a lot like what Bill Blair Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada just said...I mean...it sound a LOT like what he just said!
To my knowledge securetec is not traded publicly (since it's German I check frankfurt but I have limited abilities in finding stuff in German:) also it could be owned by some other corporation
(this is a picture of the German machine)
https://www.securetec.net/en/lateral-flow-reader-drugread
here is the alere machine
https://www.alere.com/en/home/product-details/dds2-mobile-test-system.html