Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) has begun a review of the state’s drug-driving laws – but it’s not due to be completed until the end of 2024.
Responding to an enquiry on behalf of TMR minister Mark Bailey, general manager (land transport safety and regulation) Andrew Mahon said the review will examine best practice approaches across the world as well as the latest research.
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Great to see that at least they are willing to look at it. The one thing that is totally missing in Mahon’s logic is the link with benzos, opiates and anticonvulsants, where his statement: “XXX can also interact with other medications, impairing the metabolism of other drugs or causing cumulative effects such as sedation. There are also differences in the impairing effects of XXX based on length of use, quantity and an individual’s own metabolism.”
So let’s take them off the market as well…or not…