Focus should not be on pot after West Palm crash

After carefully reading your recent article, I once again scratched my head and wondered, what’s wrong with our legislators? A driver who caused a fatal accident has his blood tested, and it showed that he had morphine in his blood, in addition to a strong sedative, midazolam, and oh by the way, he also tested positive for marijuana. So, based upon that analysis, we are now going to have a brand new law created that is going to focus exclusively on the marijuana aspect of the tragedy.

Instead of examining how someone obtained the morphine ... or finding out how that driver also got a prescription for midazolam, we take the politically easy road and go after the marijuana connection.

In the article, it specifically mentioned that the driver had run a red light. If our elected legislators had done even five minutes of due diligence before they knee-jerk reacted, they would immediately discover that no driver, ever, ever, ran a red light while being high simply on marijuana. It just doesn’t happen. A driver may get a ticket for going too slow approaching a red light, but he would never consider running a red light. Whatever tragically caused this driver to go through the red light, it wasn’t the marijuana.

Let’s try to use some common sense when it comes to making new laws that will just further complicate our already overburdened judicial process.

Walter Hollander, Fort Lauderdale