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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
I personally prefer Police focusing on the behaviour of the drivers to determine probable cause - particularly with the legalization of cannabis. Someone with cannabis in their system (even above the government limits) may not actually be impaired due to the body’s slow processing of the substance. However, with recent legislation, the federal government has officially removed the need for probable cause to pull over a driver and test them. This wouldn’t be as problematic if cannabis behaved in the body similar to alcohol and was processed at a linear rate but it doesn’t. This could lead to an entire group of people (particularly medical marijuana users) getting criminal records and damaging their careers and reputations without even being impaired.
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Actually, they still need probable cause to pull you over, that hasn’t changed.
Checkstops already created an exception, and are still the only exception, but the police cannot pull an individual driver over without cause. This law also doesn’t require mandatory sample for drugs, only the alcohol test is mandatory
There is a pretty comprehensive write up on the justice.gc.ca website that would be helpful for most people to get proper info..