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Ohio has a per se drugged driving law enacted for cannabis, cannabis metabolites, and other controlled substances.

Under Ohio's law, motorists with detectable levels of THC in the blood above 2 ng/ml or detectable levels of THC-COOH in the urine above 15 ng/ml are guilty of DUID. (Ohio Revised Code Annotated Section 4511.19, Amended by Senate Bill 8)

Penalty:

  • If violated, a mandatory jail term of three consecutive days (seventy-two consecutive hours.) The court may sentence an offender to both an intervention program and a jail term. The court may impose a jail term in addition to the three-day mandatory jail term or intervention program. However, in no case shall the cumulative jail term imposed for the offense exceed six months.
  • The court may suspend the execution of the three-day jail term under this division if the court, in lieu of that suspended term, places the offender under a community control sanction and requires the offender to attend, for three consecutive days, a drivers' intervention program.
  • License may be suspended from a definite period of six months to three years.

Ohio's law took effect in August 2006.

Every state has DUID (driving under the influence of drugs) legislation on the books. These laws fall into three distinct categories: Effect-Based DUID Laws, Per Se DUID Laws, "Zero Tolerance" Per Se Laws. For more information see NORML's report on Drugged Driving(DUID).



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