Medical Marijuana Users Risk Running Afoul of DUI Laws

The standard is a tad strict

Now that Nevada's Legislature has ended 13 years of ignoring a voter-approved constitutional mandate to provide medical marijuana to sick people, everything's fine. Right? …

Maybe not.

While plenty of time was spent this session getting the dispensary bill passed, the Legislature ran out of time to consider a separate bill that addressed the issue of driving under the influence of marijuana.

Medical marijuana users — if they're not careful — could easily violate the DUI standard found in Nevada Revised Statutes 484C.120(3), which says it's against the law to drive with more than 2 nanograms of marijuana per milliliter in your blood, or 5 nanograms of marijuana metabolite. (A nanogram is a billionth of a gram, and a milliliter is 1/1000th of a liter.)