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What Researchers are Missing in Their
Claims About How Long You Stay High or
Get Stoned
The Problem with Non-Cannabis Users Making Impairment Claims About Marijuana
Posted by:
Reginald Reefer, today at 12:00am
The Problem with Non-Cannabis Users Making Impairment
Claims!
Researchers in Australia (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-11/new-research-reveals-how-long-cannabis-
impairment-lasts/100056998) found that you can be stoned from anywhere between 3-10 hours depending on the
means and the potency of the cannabis you consume.

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Impairment is important because it will be the indicator that determine whether people can drive or not. Currently
there are no real standards for the duration of intoxication mainly because cannabis impairment di ers from person to
person.
For example, depending on your tolerance levels – a high could last you as little as an hour. Yet the prevalence of THC
would be high.
Therefore, the presence of THC does not indicate intoxication but due to the lagging nature of law reform, the “presence
of THC” could be more than enough to revoke one’s license.
Now according to these researchers, an edible can last up to 10 hours whereas smoking high potency pot could last up
to 3 hours. This information helps consumers more than it helps law enforcement however and does nothing to protect
cannabis patients from legal scrutiny.

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How does one measure impairment?
I wrote a few months back about the DRUID app (https://cannabis.net/blog/opinion/can-the-druid-app-help-protect-
cannabis-consumers-against-bogus-duiimpairment-test), which tests your response time to basic eye-motor responses.
This in my opinion is one of the more accurate means of detecting minor impairment, at least to the point where we can
see “reaction time” being a ected.
We know that THC prevalence in the blood does nothing in terms of indicating whether someone is stoned or not. This
is because THC binds to lipids and can remain in your body at detectable levels for up to a month afterwards.
Trace elements of THC can be found up to 90-days after consumption.
Another way that law enforcement measures impairment is through making the suspected driver do a few motor-skill
exercises to indicate whether they are impaired or not.
But as the DRUID founder told me – people can learn how to beat those tests with enough practice. You may be drunk
or stoned, but you can train your muscle memory to ace the test – and some drunks do just that!
Why non-stoners shouldn’t be the only ones “determining things”
Why is it that “non-consumers” are telling consumers how to consume?
This is something that I have noticed a while now – we have most of our “drug laws” created by people who have never
consumed a single “drug” in their lives.
Some may argue that you need an “objective assessment” on the nature of drugs to determine how one should and
should not consume them. The problem with this assessment is that without actually experiencing the drug itself – how
would you know how it a ects the individual?
It’s not the same to know what happens in the brain when you’re looking at it through an MRI Scan than it is to
experience the alterations within the brain. Yet, researchers believe that they “know” what it’s like.

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I ask – do these researchers that have determined that you’re stoned between 3-10 hours ever been stoned
themselves? If so, how much? Do they know how a seasoned cannabis user metabolizes cannabis or are what are their
indications for an “average consumer”?
You see, consuming cannabis is purely subjective and over time, as you increase your tolerance threshold, the e ects
will diminish.
How then can you de nitively say that “at least 3-hours” without doing tests on the person right after they smoked
weed?
We do need some standard don’t we?
This is also an important point. We do need some “standard” for intoxication. Unlike alcohol, where the blood-alcohol
level is a pretty reliable indicator of impairment – cannabis does not have the same reliability.
This is why tech solutions like the DRUID App is being explored. There are other means also currently in production to
test this because we do need a standard.
The ultimate purpose of these kinds of tests is to make the roads safer for people. We don’t want people to be driving
under the in uence of drugs mainly because they are sitting behind the wheel of a accelerating piece of metal – aka
their cars.
However, while it’s important to have a xed standard of intoxication for cannabis – we should not simply put up a
number arbitrarily.
I personally think at least 2 hours is enough time to reduce ones high if you’re smoking. I agree however that if you’re
eating edibles – you should probably just not drive at all.
How long does it take you to get sober?
Depending on the strain and the potency, I get “soberish” after about an hour and an hour and a half. Of course, I’ve
been smoking weed for more than 20-years and have a pretty good understanding about my own tolerance levels.

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It would be interesting to know – at least from a purely subjective perspective – how long it takes for you to get sober
after smoking weed?
Maybe we need some stoners to chime in? What do you think about 3-10 hours? Truth or bologna?
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