S64 partner Jordan Wellington was interviewed for a National Public Radio story regarding the complexities of cannabis impairment detection and DUI policy. Listen to the full story below.
“It’s an incredibly complicated situation because you don’t have your objective standard,” says Jordan Wellington, managing partner at Strategies 64, a consulting firm that focuses on cannabis policy. “Police officers are human beings who are doing their best every day. But no human being that performs their job a thousand times does it right a thousand times.”
He says finding a tool to reliably capture someone’s level of impairment is a good goal, but educating the public is far more important.
“If people wouldn’t get on the road when they’re impacted and unable to drive a car, we wouldn’t be as worried about how to assess them,” Wellington says. “The assessment is because people are doing the wrong thing in the first place.”
