Republicans Offer Amendments to Increase Safety on Our Roadways

Current Connecticut law does not permit a law enforcement officer from pulling over a vehicle where a driver is seen smoking marijuana or if the induvial is smoking marijuana with children in the car.

Earlier this week, my Republican colleagues offered two amendments to address the increase in wrong way driving incidents and highway fatalities, by granting police officers the authority to make those marijuana-related traffic stops. Unfortunately, neither passed.

If we are serious about increasing safety on our roadways, giving our law enforcement officers the tools to reduce the number of impaired drivers would have been a common-sense step in that direction.