should drink driving or drugs at any level be against the law?

Well, I have no problem with a zero tolerance on alcohol or drug use when driving. It makes it very, very simple legally. Any response at all from a breath test, arrested. I cannot see why anyone should be worried about that; if you want to drive why on earth should anyone tolerate you doing it after you've had something which impairs you in any way?

It strikes me as idiocy anyway; if you drive presumably you need your car. If you need your car why on earth would you do anything which would risk you losing that car either by accident or the loss of your driving licence? People are stupid.

The people who change the laws are called politicians. These people are voted in at elections.

If you think the crying today of I am being hard done by, from the cigarette industry over plain packaging here in Australia is loud, could you imagine the fuss a law as your proposing would cause.

Not only would you have the entertainment and alcohol industry up in arms, but the very people who voted you in would turn on you in an instant. Forget your own career, your politely party may not even survive the attack from the community. Remember, the majority of society would not be in favor of such a law.

It would be politely suicide.

nicely that's great if a kin member of mine is killed via a inebriated driving force, the guy who did that's going to likely be lifeless to boot so because it is okay! whether that's no longer ok is it? i'd truly the guy wasn't using around risking lives interior the 1st place. It won't deter people, every person is risking their own lives first via drink using, so why will the possibility of a loss of life penalty then be a deterrent? The inebriated driving force assumes wrongly that he won't crash, so the plan is deeply incorrect. BTW alcohol is consumer-friendly to reason a extensive style of injuries, people in touch in injuries fail breath exams at a plenty bigger fee than different drivers examined. asserting that throughout the time of a crash between a inebriated and a sober driving force there's a 50% possibility that the sober driving force led to that's a fallacy, that's plenty extra probable to be the inebriated driving force.

I don't think you can really do 0 (Zero) alcohol in the system for driving because numerous cough medicines and other medicinal products have alcohol in them.

You would lose your licence for having a lemsip before driving, a little harsh really.

If the police developed a way to determine how a minute amount of alcohol was in the system then it may be fairer, but I wouldn't want to be put up in front of the court because I had a Lemsip before going to work!!

If someone drinks 9 pints a day they my feel ok but it all depends on the alchohol level in their system.

That is why most countries have a % in blood law.

I prefer someone to have a pint and drive than those who chat / text on their phones whilst driving.

There is the odd person out there who can drive perfectly fine after drinking. But he is the exception to the rule. Normally your drunk driver is a loaded weapon waiting to kill a family. Of course it should be illegal.

Never drink and drive just smoke and flyy, remember that.

any amount should be legal. its up to all the squares to dodge u