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YOU CANNOT DETERMINE IMPAIRMENT FROM BLOOD THC LEVELS – “Even the Crown’s witness, Centre of Forensic Sciences toxicologist Betty Chow, agreed there are too many variables — how was the cannabis ingested, how long before driving, was the person new to the drug — making it impossible to determine if a driver was impaired based just on a blood THC level.”

Posted byDennis Reeve 3 November 20213 November 2021
Screenshot of Brady Robertson at St. Michael's Hospital (court exhibit)
https://o.canada.com/news/local-news/mandel-brady-robertson-guilty-of-impaired-driving-in-deadly-crash-but-dependent-on-charter-challenge
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