Doug Wilson
It feels like an “only in California” type experiment. In the run-up to voting on Proposition 19, which would legalize recreational marijuana in California, there’s been a lot of talk about whether legalization would increase the amount of people driving under the influence. So police in Los Angeles decided to see what they might be dealing with. They recruited a number of people to smoke up and drive. (On a closed course.) Among them was Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez. He wrote about his experiences for today’s paper and it’s a pretty entertaining piece–think of the paranoia alone–about cops trying to see what marijuana-impaired driving looks like. An excerpt: