Comme le note Lopez dans son article, plusieurs policiers prédisent qu'un nombre accru de nouveaux consommateurs prendront le volant après avoir fumé un joint si la Proposition 19 est adoptée. Le chroniqueur du Times, soit dit en passant, a consommé du cannabis dans la plus parfaite légalité, un gynécologue lui ayant prescrit l'an dernier cette drogue pour un mal de dos (vous avez bien lu). Malgré tout, il affirme ne pas être un fumeur régulier.
Quoi qu'il en soit, je cite dans le texte un extrait de la chronique de Lopez, à qui les policiers ont fait fumer une marque de marijuana appelée Train Wreck :
It didn't seem to me that I was as impaired as I would have been after a few beers or glasses of wine or if I was one of the morons who drive while texting and yakking on cellphones.
But when I finished, Sgt. Nelms said I was less confident than I had been before smoking. He had to admit I hadn't bombed on the slalom and parking challenges, wobbling only a few traffic cones.
Getting through the traffic signal was another matter. Having to process a lot of information and make a quick decision, on Train Wreck, was a challenge. I swerved radically before getting into the correct lane, and if I were a cop, I'd have pulled me over.
Tilden, meanwhile, parked like a blind man. He ended up so far from the curb after parallel parking that he would have needed a search party to find it. But he had enough Blockhead in him to think he'd done just fine.
"They both show impairment across the board," Sgt. Nelms announced after we were put through another round of field sobriety tests.