Driving days after using medical cannabis shouldn’t be a crime
Under Pennsylvania law, it’s legal for patients with cancer, intractable pain, PTSD, and other ailments to use medical cannabis with their doctor’s approval. But, state law has a catch-22, which makes it illegal to drive even days after impairment has worn off. Please support the House-passed version of SB 773 to fix this injustice.
Trace amounts of cannabis can stay in one’s system for as long as a week. Meanwhile, impairment typically lasts one to three hours. Yet, unlike every other medication, Pennsylvania law prohibits driving with trace amounts of cannabis in one’s system.
Please support treating medical cannabis like other medicines and doing away with this absurd catch-22. Driving while impaired would remain illegal, as it should be. But this would stop criminalizing a suffering patient on a Monday for having used medical cannabis on a Saturday.