At least for now, lawmakers in Maine can't get behind a bill that would have made it possible to be arrested for OUI based on your THC levels. According to the Portland Press Herald, the Criminal Justice and Safety Committee voted to reject the bill after deciding that the science wasn't convincing enough to penalize people so harshly.

Proponents of the bill wanted to enact a THC legal limit, similar to that of alcohol consumption. If a driver or operator was found to be over the legal THC limit, they would be subjected to the same OUI consequences as someone found to be over the legal limit for alcohol. At the center of the dispute however, was the science. Some scientific data suggests that THC affects everyone differently and could linger in some people's system longer than others, leaving a test for THC inaccurate.

Maine lawmakers were additionally reluctant to pass the bill because of Maine's already lenient marijuana laws in place. Had the bill passed, Maine would have become the 18th state in the country to enact a law setting a THC limit.

What do you think? Should Maine set standards based on THC science? Or does the science need to become more accurate before a law is put into place?

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