What are DUID (zero tolerance) per ‘se Laws?
Drugged Driving: Michigan Supreme Court Upholds State DUID Law — Now You Don’t Even Have to Be High to Get Busted 6/23/06 If you smoke a joint Friday night and drive to work bright-eyed and bushy-tailed Monday morning in Michigan, you can be arrested, charged, and convicted as a drugged driver because inactive chemical traces of THC, or metabolites, remain in your bloodstream. The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that motorists can be convicted of Driving Under the Influence of Drugs (DUID) even if they are not under the influence of drugs. According to the Supreme Court opinion in the consolidated cases Derror v. Michigan and Kurts v. Michigan authored by Justice Maura Corrigan, actual innocence of driving while impaired is “irrelevant.” In both cases, authorities charged the defendants under the Michigan DUID law based on the presence of cannabis metabolites, an inert byproduct of the body’s breakdown of THC, in their blood. The presence of metabolites does not indicate impairm
