APNewsBreak: Police seek help on drugged driving

if senators and congressman, agree to support a law that requires them to be drug tested before every session of congress and with a penalty of failure life imprisonment with no parole or pardons. Time that these officials fall under the rule of law, in fact we need something like ucmj for elected officials.

How about Cell phone use??? To hell with drinking and driving until you can get cell phone use under control. Commercial drivers will get a $2700 fine and their company an $11,000 fine. Todays authorities dont have a "pair of vegetables" to take on this MAJOR safety problem. Cell phones are the new whiskey when driving and much more widespread and dangerous.

My only question would be is if a person is not showing any outward signs of intoxication what would give a police officer probable cause to initiate a test? An accident? Driving imporperly? Or maybe just an never ending need to fill the municipal or state coffers....No one wants impaired drivers on the road but conducting a witch hunt to achieve those ends smacks of Nazi Germany not America.

The study is linking illegal drug use with over the counter meds, too.
Now I can't drive on cough syrup?
How about mandating cell phones cannot dial or text while in motion?
You need to talk, you have to pull over. How many children would be saved by that?

If there was a Testicle or any Ovaries left in this Nation, we would drop what we are doing and march on Washington and have all these loonies committed to an Insane Asylum -- Maybe make Washington DC an Insane Asylum -- Fence it off with Guards around it and then build us a new Capital. -- They could just stay there and pretend to be still in charge, while we the People went about running a Constitutional and Elected Government.

Why is their answer to everything to throw federal money at it?

How about approaching the problem by the other end and encourage big pharma to quit drugging the heck out of us? Each drug comes with side effects, which are treated with another drug which comes with side effects, etc., etc.

Amen brother...randomly drug and alcohol test every senator and congressman before they perform or inmost of their cases before they shirk their duties and mouth off on CNN like they are all for taking action. These ineffective Morons serving right now must be High how else could you be so self-centered and righteous and get nothing done except ruining the nations' eccomomy in an attempt to get re-elected. They must think we are all wasted and don't care that they are wothless...Wrong-O gang wait til lNovember and you ae snt packing and have to submit to a drug test for your next job application...better stop smokin' the evil weed now....my apologies to the few exceptional people in Congress andd the Senate that actually care you know who you are!

What kind of kickback are these senators getting from the prison industy??

What do these senators propose to do against the rising scourge of senators?

33% of drivers in NY are on drugs? Schumer and bloomberg are 100% ripped. Another progressive, socialist idea to spend more tax $$$$$

How about this new law. --If a cop breaks the law, they get 2x the sentence. If a elected official gets busted they do 3x the sentence. Lets keep them honest.

what a nonsense.

Our aim is to ruin you Antihistamine Popping Fiends lives as effectively as we did those who enjoy a glass of wine with dinner -- We need to fund a Massive Federalized Program to fight this scourge -- Shouldn't cost but another 500 Billion or so --- Remember "Friends don't let Friends Drive at all"

Oh goodie, more tax dollars spent!

more useless government attempt at control. Actually these two wanted their 15 mins of fame, they got it. Lets move on to something worthwhile, like possibly enforcing laws they already have, or better yet remove ineffective ones.

Everybody repeat after me - - @#$% you David Pryor.
What is it with Senators, when they get to Washington, they all turn into some NAZI version of Caligula? -- How about we fund this by opening up a Brothel where Senator's Wives ply their trade?

Pryor wants to create federal grants so police can participate in programs that require up to 200 hours of instruction to detect drugged driving.

The training would be held in hotel conference centers, with participants receiving rooms, lodging, and premium pay for the time spent in training. Training would be given by companies owned by retired federal employees, who will form their companies with Homeland Security Grants, and will employ friends and family members of legislators.

Those with training contracts will also manufacture the equipment used for testing, and the federal government will specify which equipment is approved for use. It will be manufactured in China, under strict quality controls, and departments will be mandated to pay qualified manufacturer's representatives to check and calibrate the equipment semi-annually.

So what happens to the people who have prescriptions. Are they banned from driving?

This feeds a racket.

Texting is equally as bad but since it doesn't feed their coffers it doesn't get near the attention. These double standards hold back our country, and add to the ever increasing police state we're becoming.

I was rearen-ded and got whiplash from a driver eating some sort of snack cake on way to work. Except he got off cleaner than a whistle compared to what most even first-time DUI drivers face.

How many police officers are stripped of their driving privileges and lose their job because they drive around eating all day with potential to be distracted. How about virtually zero.