Eric Baerren, News Editor of the Mt. Pleasant, Michigan Morning Sun has a strong and detailed response to the recent Michigan Supreme Court decision allowing the discovery of chemical byproducts in the blood to qualify as “impaired” driving.
Baarren takes apart the entire drug war and what it’s led to — more than I can quote here and worth reading in its entirety.
His ending…
Do they really think this was such a smart idea, that this kind of thing won’t lead to arbitrary enforcement of laws and the conviction of people who weren’t actually guilty in the first place? If so, and this is really how we’re fighting our war on drugs, I have a question:
What’s the penalty for desertion?