What data do you have to support those statements? For the most part, the laws we have that restrict or require behavior in our cars do have the desired effect. For example DUI laws have lowered the incidence of drunk driving. Seatbelt and child safety laws have very high compliance rates. I think it's too early to say how efficacious our cell-phone bans will be, but the sales of hands-free devices like bluetooth headsets and expensive in-dash communications systems indicate to me that people are becoming more aware of the dangers of driving while using a phone. There's every reason to believe fewer people would drive high if we enforced DUID laws more rigorously.

If anyone was at the Judiciary meeting, was there any discussion of making driving high a DWAI and not a DUID? That would mean first-offenders with clean driving records would not lose their license automatically, and if no one was hurt there would be no felony.