{"id":531,"date":"2020-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baronedefensefirm.lawblogger.net\/blog\/will-i-get-a-dui-if-i-drive-high\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:40:07","slug":"will-i-get-a-dui-if-i-drive-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/will-i-get-a-dui-if-i-drive-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Will I Get a DUI if I Drive High?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado was one of the first States to legalize the use of marijuana. Michigan has now followed suit and has legalized both the use of medical as well as recreational marijuana. However, in Michigan and all other states, driving under the influence of marijuana remains illegal.\u00a0 If you are caught driving high in Michigan, you can be charged with operating while intoxicated (OWI), Michigan\u2019s version of driving under the influence (DUI).<\/p>\n<p>The types of PSA, public service announcements long since popular in Colorado, have not yet made it to Michigan. According to the ad campaign in Colorado, here\u2019s what you can do in Colorado while high: grill a steak; play ball; install a TV. Here\u2019s what you can\u2019t do while high in Colorado: drive to get the propane you forgot; drive to see the pros play ball; drive to the store to buy a new TV.<\/p>\n<p>The problem in Michigan is that there is no set standard for knowing when a person is driving high. Because of this, Michigan has considered, but so far rejected, legislation that would create standards for determining when a driver is impaired by their use of pot, such as the creation of a legal limit. This is no easy task, partly because, unlike alcohol, many drivers who are under the influence of pot are still safe on the road.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/will-i-get-a-dui-if-i-drive-high\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Will I Get a DUI if I Drive High?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado was one of the first States to legalize the use of marijuana. Michigan has now followed suit and has legalized both the use of medical as well as recreational marijuana. However, in Michigan and all other states, driving under the influence of marijuana remains illegal.\u00a0 If you are caught driving high in Michigan, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-owi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will I Get a DUI if I Drive High? | Blog | Barone Defense Firm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many drivers across Michigan wonder, will I get a DUI if I drive high? Read more here and contact an experienced defense attorney today to learn the answer.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/will-i-get-a-dui-if-i-drive-high\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Will I Get a DUI if I Drive High? | Blog | Barone Defense Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Many drivers across Michigan wonder, will I get a DUI if I drive high? Read more here and contact an experienced defense attorney today to learn the answer.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Patrick Barone\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Will I Get a DUI if I Drive High? | Blog | Barone Defense Firm","description":"Many drivers across Michigan wonder, will I get a DUI if I drive high? Read more here and contact an experienced defense attorney today to learn the answer.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/will-i-get-a-dui-if-i-drive-high\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Will I Get a DUI if I Drive High? | Blog | Barone Defense Firm","twitter_description":"Many drivers across Michigan wonder, will I get a DUI if I drive high? Read more here and contact an experienced defense attorney today to learn the answer.","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Patrick Barone","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/will-i-get-a-dui-if-i-drive-high\/","url":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/will-i-get-a-dui-if-i-drive-high\/","name":"Will I Get a DUI if I Drive High? | Blog | Barone Defense Firm","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-04-29T04:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2022-10-04T17:40:07+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/da00f897e195cfccca02fe556b53136f"},"description":"Many drivers across Michigan wonder, will I get a DUI if I drive high? Read more here and contact an experienced defense attorney today to learn the answer.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/will-i-get-a-dui-if-i-drive-high\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/will-i-get-a-dui-if-i-drive-high\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/will-i-get-a-dui-if-i-drive-high\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Will I Get a DUI if I Drive High?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/","name":"Michigan Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Michigan Criminal Defense Attorney \u2014 Barone Defense Firm","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/da00f897e195cfccca02fe556b53136f","name":"Patrick Barone","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/72accf40078879330cdb7caae27be7ad00db64cb0555444fefa6e1a762116037?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/72accf40078879330cdb7caae27be7ad00db64cb0555444fefa6e1a762116037?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Patrick Barone"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}