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VIEW DEADLY DRIVING BILL WITH MEMO

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This broad coalition of traffic safety advocates, criminal justice professionals, businesses and organizations was formed to urge passage of a law to close the dangerous loopholes in drugged driving.

50 MEMBERS and GROWING:

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VIEW THE 2022 CPNYDD SUPPORT LETTER

VIEW THE

2023 CPNYDD

SUPPORT LETTER

Drugged drivers threaten the lives of random and innocent roadway users every day throughout New York State.

This site is intended to educate, inform and raise awareness of the issues surrounding drugged driving in New York State.

New York's drugged driving laws are full of loopholes. Drugged drivers are frequently not being identified until after they have crashed – after they have hurt or killed someone. New York's laws do not work well to stop drugged drivers before they crash - that leaves deadly drivers free to endanger everyone.

The current laws are ineffective.

The MISSION is to bring CHANGE to SAVE LIVES

(The graphic on the next page can be downloaded and printed onto an “iron-On Transfer” sheet that can then be ironed onto a red T-shirt, if you wish).

THANK YOU

TO EVERYONE WHO CAME TO ALBANY ON JANUARY 9, 2024 TO REPRESENT ALL VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

RALLY PLAYLIST:

All 3 Parts of the January 9 Deadly Driving Rally for Change

PART 1: Comments by Suffolk DA Ray Tierney

PART 2: Sponsor, Assembly Transportation Chair Magnarelli, Sen. Addabbo,

Assembly member Brown, NASID Director, Darrin Grondel and

Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds (Drug Treatment Provider)

RALLY

# NORML’s Official position: (Nevada Testimony 4/21)

1. oppose the act of driving under the influence of any controlled substance, including cannabis,

2. oppose per se or “presence” statutes, support actual impairment (Deadly Driving Bill uses this standard)

3. support evidence-based laws, tools, other legal

efforts to discourage this behavior

4. provide law enforcement with the ability to better target these drivers and remove them from our roads.

Cannabis & Psychomotor Performance 7/2012:

Increase efforts to encourage officers to engage in drug recognition expert (DRE) or equivalent training (such as ARIDE: Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement) so that a greater number of police may be able to better identify drivers who may be operating a vehicle while influenced by cannabis

member NASID/

WCBS REPORT ON USE OF UNLISTED K-2 SPICE. (IF INGREDIENTS NOT ON THE LIST, NO CHARGES)

VIEW ITSMR COMPARISON DATA FROM 2019 tO 2020*

TO VIEW IMPAIRED DRIVING DATA BY COUNTY TAKEN FROM ITSMR*

VIEW ITSMR DRUG-RELATED FACT SHEET*

The Deadly Driving Bill does NOT create a new crime - It makes the existing law workable for the first time

The Deadly Driving Bill does NOT expand law enforcement‘s ability to stop cars

The Deadly Driving Bill does NOT impact cannabis legalization.

(It was illegal to drive while impaired by cannabis before. It still is. Alcohol DWI laws did not reinstate prohibition. Alcohol DWI can be charged on observations without a test. Drugged driving should be the same).

*ITSMR - definition of “drug-related”/Data limitations

TRUTH IN MEDICINE POLL:

NEW YORKERS SUPPORT LEGAL POT BUT 74% WORRY ABOUT HIGH DRIVERS

NY POST VIDEO OF “TRANQ” USERS

IF DRIVING - NO ARREST. NOT ON THE LIST

STATEMENTS OF

VICTIMS:

(Data from the Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research [ITSMR] Unless stated otherwise)

CP

DD

Victim statement of Henry Rivera. His son, Henry Alexander Rivera and his son’s friend, Pedro Hernandez were killed by a drugged driver.

Report on how overseas labs adjust chemistry of impairing substances to keep them “legal”, Why a “list” can never keep up

Report on the use of K-2 Spice that shows the effects of the drug. If one of these users was driving , the driver could not be arrested for drugged driving unless the exact version of K-2 ingested is on the PHL list.