With legalization just around the corner, people genuinely want to know more about cannabis and its medical uses. But with information overload, it’s hard to keep up. In this column, we are taking your questions, straight to the experts who will give you the most straight-forward answer possible—while making you feel more comfortable about cannabis, your health and in some instances, the law.
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But it may seem like cannabis is being singled out since changes are being made to the impaired driving laws, including the blood drug concentration regulations, which will act as a companion to cannabis legalization. “The new saliva tester the Government has announced is not specific to illegal drugs. It can test for, among other things, opiates, benzodiazepines, methadone, and amphetamines, all of which covers a broad array of medical substances,” says Lee, who also believes that cannabis will be an experiment and if things go well with the proposed blood drug concentration limits for THC, then the government will add others specific to narcotic pain medications, and other impairing substances.
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