Here’s What They’ll Make You Do

How to recognize the tests and procedures of a false cannabis field sobriety test.

Here’s some of the parlor games that, police are claiming, determines if a person is too stoned to drive safely. Hopefully a little knowledge will reduce your anxiety if you end up in an unwarranted stop and test scenario. Stay cool and wary so you avoid going into false confinement.

Leg Lift

Lift one leg, while keeping the sole of the foot parallel with the ground, while keeping the arms flat to your side (so they can’t be used for balance,) hold this position for 30 or more seconds, while counting the seconds off aloud.

Heel To Toe Walk

Renee Emery-Wolfe was a Michigan MS patient. She had to use medical cannabis in order to be able to heel-to-toe walk without her walker. Somehow police think  a person who is high can’t do the same. This is still mostly a balance test carried over from alcohol sobriety tests. I don’t know how extremely stoned you have to be to not be able to do this routine that sober people can even have trouble with due to health or weight issues.

Pick a direction, in full view of the cop’s dash cam, place one foot forward after the other with the forward foot’s heel landing in contact with the toes of the other foot. Do this while counting the steps off out loud. Some may think you must simulate a tight rope walk but it doesn’t have to  be done that way. This is just about demonstrating the ability to place your feet in heel to toe contact. If you walk it like a tight rope then it becomes a moving stress position that anyone can fail even completely sober.

Eye Games

Different when administered daytime or nighttime, this test comes without demonstration and comes off as very arbitrary. You will be told that it is a way to see if your eyes track and easily go into the uncomfortable position of crossed eyes. How running your corneas to each extreme of up down side to side is relevant to driving vision is questionable. Maybe they want you to get a detached retina. This is mostly an attempt to get blood to pool in eyeball vessels by stretching and compressing them.  Then they claim you have red eyes from pot.

Checking Your Pulse

This last ditch effort usually fails to produce the high heart rate they desire to justify their DUI accusation. Or maybe your heart rate is too low now. It is a stress test not an impairment test. Cops are not medically trained to make the medical assertions that get innocent drivers busted and taken to jail.

Do not go from one test to a new one unless the officer audibly tells you if you passed. There is no reason for the officer not to be able to articulate his assessment of your pot sobriety test. They don’t require secrecy to administer a sobriety test for drunkenness, don’t tolerate this cannabis double standard.

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