This crime is “zero tolerance,” you are guilty regardless of if the drug impacted your ability to drive.
Drugged Driving Defense
In addition to alcohol intoxication, the Michigan crime of “OWI” can also be proven based on the presence of a drug in your system, or a combination of drugs and alcohol at the time you were operating a motor vehicle. If the drug in question is a prescribed or over-the-counter drug, then the prosecutor must show that this drug or combination of this drug and alcohol caused your ability to operate the motor vehicle to be “substantially lessened.”
On the other hand, if the drug in question is a controlled substance, then the acronym for the drunk driving offense is OUID, which stands for operating under the influence of drugs. This crime is “zero tolerance,” meaning if the drug is present in your system while you are driving, then you are guilty regardless of if the drug impacted your ability to drive. The zero tolerance drugs are set forth in “Schedule 3" of the Michigan statutes.
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