Republicans Offer Amendments to Increase Safety on Our Roadways
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Due to the increased frequency of wrong way driving incidents and traffic fatalities, we have a responsibility to our residents to take action and increase safety along our roadways.
On Monday, my House Republican colleagues offered two amendments aimed at reducing the number of impaired drivers under the influence of cannabis on our state roads. The first would allow law enforcement officers to stop an individual who is smoking marijuana, the second would have let them pull over an individual seen smoking marijuana with children under the age of 18 in the vehicle. Unfortunately, neither passed.
If we truly want to reduce the number of dangerous situations happening on our roadways, cracking down on the number of impaired drivers would have been a common-sense step in the right direction.
