You’re standing on the side of the road, with traffic whizzing past.
The police officer who pulled you over suspects you may have smoked the reefer before departing for McDonald’s.
But she’s in a bit of a quagmire, because, really, there’s no reliable way to know for sure. Are you high? If you are high, how high are you, really? Or really did you just want those little cheeseburgers (no ketchup and extra pickles)?
So she does the most logical thing: a field sobriety test. Tried and true. Walk the line. Touch the tip your nose. Can’t do it? That’s… suspicious. Maybe a night in the clink? Some Canadian cops also have roadside saliva swabs that can be used to test for the presence of drugs, but they are useless, legally speaking (for now.)
Lucas Powers – CBC News – May 22, 2016.
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