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Witness warns Ohio bill on drugged driving relies on flawed toxicology and could hinder convictions
Summary
At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Senate Bill 55, Ed Wood of DUID Victim Voices testified that proposed per se and inference levels for THC and other drug tests are scientifically unsound and risk convicting the innocent while exonerating the impaired.
Senate Bill 55 was the first item at the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting and drew opposition testimony from Ed Wood of DUID Victim Voices, who said the bill’s proposed toxicology thresholds for drugged driving are not supported by the science.
Wood told the committee that "urine testing is useless to prove drug impairment" and that neither urine nor simple blood thresholds for THC reliably indicate impairment. He said several provisions in the bill — including a 5 nanogram per whole blood per se level and proposed inference bands — would be ineffective and could produce both wrongful convictions and wrongful…
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