Cannabis is legal and more openly used around the nation: Can you detect and articulate its impairment?
Today’s forms (including edibles, flower, and concentrates) have a much higher level of THC than in the past. With more cannabis of a stronger variety available, officers greatly benefit from green lab training to help recognize its presence in motor vehicle operators.
Training Objectives include:
- In-depth discussion about Cannabis and its different forms, legal status, and legislative history.
- A suggested “enhanced” SFST Protocol for detecting cannabis impairment roadside as well as cannabis-impaired driving investigation techniques including:
- Field Sobriety Techniques and exercises
- Behaviors commonly observed in people impaired by cannabis
- Investigation and documentation suggestions for best practices
- Chemical testing issues in drug-impaired driving investigations
- Building a cannabis-impaired driving court case.
- Case Law updates
- Hands-on Green Lab with Volunteers Cannabis Consumers
- In compliance with state marijuana possession laws, we present a “green” lab designed for officers to practice impairment detection skills on volunteers dosed with known amounts of cannabis and alcohol. This will provide the attendees with a gauge of the reliability of their detection skills. The lab is run by civilian instructors.
Attendees are not exposed to marijuana (or any drug) during training.
*There are limited seats available for each class*
** This class is a controlled environment for officers to evaluate actual cannabis dosed impaired volunteers**
A limited number of OBSERVER-ONLY seats are also available. This will include the training session in the morning, watching the others perform the SFSTs, and hearing their conclusions. This fee is $300. (NOT covered by OCP)
