I EXPOSED THE WORLD OF DRUG DRIVING
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- *This Video is for educational purposes* Today I experienced what it would be like to get arrested for drug driving and it was a terrible experience, possibly one of the worst days of my life. We then spoke to people about what it's like after being convicted and how it's altered their lives
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This video is strictly for educational purposes only and I do not and haven't done drugs at any point. enjoy :)
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Im a medical cannabis patient and literally lost my driving license yesterday due to it being in my system. I drive for a living and have lost my job as a result.Even though medical cannabis is permitted. The judge and prosecution aint even have a clue about medical cannabis. The treatment for cannabis in this country is a joke look at others like germany canada and so on. Ukgov exports tons and tons of cannabis but still classes it as a class b drug absolute joke
So sorry to hear that bud. What a nightmare.
you must be able to fight that if it's medical cannabis
if you are on MEDCIAL cannabis like @thewatcher9323 says "you can fight it" it will be removed but if you took it without the hospital medical team "cannabis programe" and this is not a easy thing to get on the Hospital one which is the only offical one in the UK that will cover you for driving, then its bad to take it even if you need it..
I have loads of really bad pains everywhere in my body took me nearly 6 years to find out what was wrong with me, some days i can not even get out of bed without help from my wife helping, i have my bad days and good days, guess what i went for the Cannabis hospital programme and i was not ill enough to be on it !
Yes i did alot of seaching and found out Boots sells the same thing but reading into it "nope you not covered to use it and drive".. its crazy specialy when you never get the high from it Cannabis Oil..
So do not take it from anywhere that sells it unless you are in the offical hospital one...
Did you have your cancard on you ??
@@connorsherry6376 do they even work
Smoking weed and getting arrested for it after 5 days is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.
1000%
Google it - apparently it can be in your system for up to 90 days. Mental.
Don’t smoke it then
Its still in your system and affecting you, what's ridiculous about that?
@@mrlister2000 it does not affect you after around 6 hours after havining it after a day you are normal after 5 days you should not be arrested for it its a joke
Meanwhile in Canada: «Please wait 3-8 hours before driving after inhaling cannabis»
Same in ireland, the road side detection used can only pickup if you used cannabis 8h ago, no more.
I live canada and I'm always smoking weed, they have no clue.
I’m in England and I can drive with thc in my system due to my medical exemption and my private cannabis prescrip
Some countries have smarter policemen. Apparently the British and also the Polish police think that someone is still intoxicated after smoking weed the day before... Or 5 days before...
It's all to show in their stats that they aren't useless so they can say:
LOOK HOW MANY CRIMINALS WE'VE UNCOVERED!
@@Nitro365 Who told you that?
UK laws are dumb. Marijuana loses all its affects after 4-6 hours. How you going to detain someone that smoked the previous night or a couple days ago?!?!? Stupidity. I feel horrible for that fella in the golf
exactly thats like detaining someone because they went out drinking two nights ago
Uk laws are dumb, nothing new here
It's getting harder to find people who are actually over the limit and impaired so they find new ways to 'prove' impairment.
The laws are there to generate convictions and criminalise the public under the guise of safety.
Like many other laws these days.
I can't believe this video to be honest. first of all a dramatized promotion for a police department, which is weird enough in itself, then he actually goes out with them and it's obvious they tested the lad in the golf just for the sake of the video. so he gets a ban on his license thanks to Mark. and Mark gets some nice content to put sad piano music over.
@@johnlow810I’m with you there. If he really wanted to “educate” people he should have told them all to get a script so they have a statutory defence against prosecution and can tell the pigs to go swivel.
"While we are here, 7 people have been mugged, we are ignoring a missing child call. But don't you dare have a zoot at the weekend"
The police: let’s selectively enforce so we get the statistics and targets up but let’s only enforce shit that shouldn’t even be law
Drug driving causing a death can lead to life impressment. But someone who stabs someone on the street is out in 5 years 🤨
Exactly. Fifth gear did a cannabis driving test and demonstrated how much results change based on the user. One guy in the test did better stoned than sober lmao.
You wouldn’t be saying that if a drink/drug driver killed a family member. Traffic officers police the roads. If you don’t like it don’t drive simple as.
@@randomchannel5386oh shut up no one is angry about them going after drink drivers as they ACTUALLY cause crashes and heartache. They are impaired. Someone who smoked 3,2,1 days ago or even the morning isn’t. Hence why having a a prescription provides a statutory defence against prosecution. None of that for drink is there?
What utter bullshit. 4 days after a joint.
cry
According to him…
No, no, didn't you hear it's five days 😂
if you don't brush your teeth
Mark McCannabis
so funny 😂😂😂😂
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@@MarkMcCann64 do you need a vpn?
Nice video mark certainly makes you think about reconsiderinv your decisions however
brush your teeth and scrub tongue and have good nights rest .do same in the morning and if u feel it in your eyes don’t drive. Same for any wild night tbh
@@Gasser24769 Think it stays in saliva even if you do the above.
I lost my drivers license on a thursday morning on my way to the goddamn gym because i smoked weed on the sunday before that. 4 Days, 3 of those i went to the gym and got a good sweat in, still showed up positive as they test for THC-COOH, because 'THC' itself only lasts for a few hours in your Saliva, but the THC-COOH can show up (depending on how much bodyfat you have) up to 14 days later. They don't test for safety on the road, they test to fill their bags with your misery.
Absolute bs mate, that you went through I mean, no way were you a danger to anyone at that point. Straight up cash grab,very very harsh.
Same exact injustice being played in italy..
When you workout you burn fat which stores THC so I believe when they blood tested you that may have been why it came up positive. The working out would have made it more influentuial in your system, i think that may only apply to heavy smokers but its a thing to be aware about. I hope the wait for your license back isnt too bad 🙏
@@MrDylanButton i did a bloodtest and with the superlow values they set i would of been 'caught' , however they let you take a saliva test and send that to the lab, it came back negative so i did not have to go to court, i did however lose my license for 15 days and had to provide a negative drugtest when i went to pick-up my license again 🥲.
Don't feel bad stupid policing ridiculous laws in place 👍
I’m a fully certified gas engineer been driving 20 years this year and got banned in April last year and lost my job and now even tho I have my license back I’m struggling to get employment my only choice now is to go self employed to carry working in my life long skilled job…….I don’t do drugs and drive I have before the drug tests but not to the point where I thought I was out of control or not sober enough to drive a more accurate test is needed
Read your comment. How you doing? Did you start up self employed?
@@stressedworried8615 thanks mate I’m in the process now I have purchased a van and have insurance I’m registering my business with house of companies this week and sorting out my public liability insurance and gas safe registration I have the van booked in for sign writing and should have my business cards and leaflets packs in 4 days so now I have to get my brand out there and start doing some networking and marketing/advertising………….I will post my business website/social media accounts when I have registered my business with house of companies……👍
I'm the same.. gas engineer, own business, mortgage etc. I went through it all in 2019 and because of covid I didn't get it back till near 2021. Awful times.. still recovering.
Good luck mate.. things will get better 💪 the system is so bent
Your storytelling, scripting and graphics are superb mark! I forget I’m watching UA-cam.. channel 4 like production levels! 🙌🏼
Thank you so much, comments like these mean the world to me and the team. Enjoy
@@MarkMcCann64Mark how much do you pay your cameraman and how much does it cost to produce videos like this ?
@@ayoubmalla843 It costs us way more to produce than we take in revenue haha, but the places UA-cam takes us and the opportunities we get is priceless. Luckily I have a full time job in Engineering, so it all works financially, and thanks to people like yourself watching, it makes it all worth while. I have an amazing team and family support, so we keep going as we enjoy every second!
@@MarkMcCann64 that is amazing Mark, keep up the good work, I am just interested as I want to start a UA-cam channel myself but have no clue or any guide what to expect from it financially and what it would cost me financially to produce videos like yours.
I passed my driving test having smoked several spliffs beforehand... I also passed my class 2 license having smoked several spliffs...
So two separate examiner's a decade apart not only saw me fit to drive but I was able to pass a closely scrutinised examination under the influence of cannabis...
I no longer smoke the stuff but at the time I was smoking it everyday from morning till night and never once had any issue whatsoever 👌👍🤔
it does change your reaction times but having said that so does old age. more importantly though not everyone can safely drive while on cannabis so even if you could that doesn't give a free pass to the idiot drivers that think they are safe but drive badly while on weed there needs to be a better way to determine fitness to drive.
@@gges1605
I 100% agree with what you've said...
There should be a "reaction" time test and an "awareness" test or something similar...
If your fully aware and have good reactions you should be safe behind the wheel of a car...
During war, pilots are often given amphetamines to keep them alert during long hours of fighting...
If you're under the influence of that stuff whilst driving then you'd loose your license...
All that really matters is if someone is safe to driver or not... There are a couple of drivers where I work that have young babies at home and they look absolutely knackered when I see them... Currently there is no test for tiredness 🤷♂️
@@FunLovingCriminal_JB Your logic is literally no different to the speed limit argument.
Why does Mr smith, who is a class 1 advanced driver, who drives at high speed regularly, still have to do 60 in a 60, as does Mrs Miggins who drives once a month, is 78 years old and doesn't have much confidence or ability?
It's a blanket rule, because otherwise they'd have to test each person seperately on a whole variety of roads to determine what speed they can safely drive on each type of road, it would then be ridiculously hard to enforce any speeding no matter how extreme.
I did my cat A motorbike test stoned helped so much to do it calmly lol
@@gges1605 it makes you more safe if anything
I lost my licence for 17 months after failing the roadside swab test! I hadn’t smoked for days at this point. 12 month ban for smoking and driving and another 5 months on top for having a passenger with me in the car (he was older than myself and a regular cannabis smoker himself who was aware I had smoked that week as it was with him)
Due to where i lived at the time it affected my life massively leaving me with no ways of getting to work or even to get my weekly shopping.
I agree with the system that smoking and driving is a serious and dangerous decision to make but as many have stated in these comments… nobody smokes and feels the effects 3 days later!
Theses tests still need to be in place, however, it needs to be more accurate to when the the drug was consumed before they make convictions and essentially ruin peoples lives or massively disrupt it for a period of time.
They had good intentions by creating this swab but the execution of how it works and plays part in convicting people is absolutely ridiculous.
How come they pulled you in the first place?
@@Manos-de-Piedra Simply because they noticed 2 young lads in a car. “looking suspicious” was the reasoning they used.
@@mattfrancisofficial Don't actually need any reason legally. But usually there is one.
Also the main issue isn't them enforcing it, it's people choosing to consume an illegal drug and then drive, whether that be 1 minute or 1 week later. If you want to use an illegal drug that's fine, but you can't expect sympathy when you get caught out.
Nobody forced the cannabis into you, and nobody forced you to drive either.
It's odd how weed is illegal yet the uk is the biggest producer of legal weed in the world
It's a wildly established fact that the Government isn't here for the benefit of its people. No, it's here to keep us in check, all while they line their pockets.
1:56 I hope Jane liked the joke 😂😂
i bet she didn't cus its probably true 🤣
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Can see you're putting a lot of effort into these 'investigation' videos Mark. Lots of subjects you can cover that people avoid discussing. Keep up the good work.
Mark, this is an exceptional film. WELL DONE. I spent a lifetime dealing with the consequences of poor driving and live with the horrors of what I've seen.
Don't rare this, weed does not cause crashes at all. Police are a joke
Someone (policeman) told me there are different levels of cannabis in the system which can be detected, there is an advanced test for this which is very expensive compared to the regular testing completed. This means many would, in effect, pass the test. The policeman even said it would halve the numbers of convicted drivers, which would reduce the revenue provided to the police by the government for drug driving. If this is true, it goes to show the process is commercially driven. On the other hand, it's very difficult to draw a line where the testing should and shouldn't be conducted, but it's clearly driven with a budget and return on investment in mind.
It’s just a blood test they do the limit is still rediculas lay low
Nothing to do with revenue. I serve in the largest force in the UK. Almost no officers on team have drug wipes and ONLY traffic officers have them. We regularly stop suspected drug drivers but don't have a wipe, and traffic are rarely available to bring one down. The last time I saw one being used it was a sample taken and then placed into a large box with a small computer inside it, contained within a hard plastic case, it took several minutes and confirmed the offence. Apparently this bit of kit was very expensive but is more accurate than the small plastic wipes you see here.
Oh, and money raised in fines from the police actually goes to the treasury, not the police. How the treasury then divvy it up each year is up to them. In my experience only a very small percentage of people stopped whereby they are suspected to be under the influence of drugs, actually get tested for it.
Thxs for making this video Mark, my schools been very good giving us talks and such on subjects like this but a lot of young people don’t have these necessary talks and some of my friend could do with watching this video
We love you Mark stay strong 💪, I get paranoid everyday I ride my e-scooter while high 😂
So a girl who I know was not only a dealer but also a user of heroin crack cocaine and cannabis multiple times daily. She talked her poor unsuspecting mum into letting her drive her car, insured but on a provisional. Her mother obviously didn't know about the drugs but let her use her car on the condition that she has someone besides her at all times who fits the criteria for driving with a provisional. One evening she decided to take mum's car and drive somewhere alone ( telling her mum that X person is coming with her so she is legal)). Unbeknownst to mum she had been paying someone to get in with her when she picked the car up and then dropping them off at home and driving alone with no L's. She'd been doing this for a few months but as you can guess in that lifestyle, there's a lot of animosity and she was either A... Grassed up or B an informer for the police. I say this because the evening in question she apparently passed a lot of police cars on the way to dropping her friend off and literally 100 yards after she was alone and illegal they swooped on her. She has mummies car impounded but strangely the test Mark had came up negative??? ( I guess it could be a faulty test but even then that's still bad). Makes you wonder... Also don't do drugs or drink and drive, imagine killing someone and having to live with it, never mind the hurt you are putting the family through!
You probably grassed on her just like you did now putting her buissness all over youtube comments 😂
On a serious note people who drive round selling drugs on a provisional licence are not hard to catch it's not a conspiracy it's inevitable 😂😂😂😂
@@zacrushton2399 You could be right , but considering she died in 2019 maybe not eh!
@@zacrushton2399 Oh and the fact every other dealer I knew would panic if the police pulled up on their drive but she said " Don't worry they haven't come to bust me" then proceeded to go outside lean in the passenger window and have a nice chat with the filth for a few minutes, and the fact she was boasting about how she got to use the gym in the local nick and they brought her magazines also doesn't sit right with me! And my dad was the biggest dealer in my local area in the mid to late 80's before it all backfired, I suppose I'm grassing him up? (He died in the early 200's broke and outcast from all his posh mates he was supplying and helping out financially until they all got dragged into the nick when he was bust, every one of them apart from a few, what they termed 'wrong uns' dropped him straight in it. Also it's strange how the photos of his parties that contained the pc and wpc that used to visit were lost! We need the police because who does your elderly mother called when she's mugged but they're all in it together. Don't believe me if you like but the wives cousin is a traffic bobby and when he was applying he dropped his own mother in it for no road tax. Oh and he also performed a citizens arrest. He was bullied at school too. Maybe not all of em where but I reckon it's in the 80 percent arena!
Mark this series of vidoes you are bring out are so important to the community and hopefully will get through to those who think they know it all to learn its not that easy. Keep up the good work
I hope so too, thanks Pal. I think so many people don’t know, I had no idea
This is exactly what youtube has always needed Mark. Proper automotive consumer journalism.
Your recent videos have been superb, and they're getting better.
I've always found you entertaining, but I think you've found your calling.
Well done. From a fellow journalist.
this is ridiculous of the U.K. it's inhumane to say the least, 5 days after consumption, you're putting him through all of this...
It completely does happen, had it happen to me and I hadn't smoked in 2days..
Big thanks to mark for shining some light on this, it's absolutely ridiculous.
this is the most insane thing I have ever seen getting arrested when you're completely sober but just because you're still testing positive wtf
This happened to me, just finshed a joint in my car, just to be stopped and tested, failed the drug test, failed the blood test, passed the visual sorioty test in the cells, had a doctor come in for a medical, he passed me, but it was in the courts hands, In court I was looking at a 3 year ban, luckily they made a mistake with the statements and the way they cautioned me etc and it got dropped.
Safe to say i haven't smoked weed in 3 years now. That was my wake up call wasn't worth it, loosing your license effects everything.
Your ‘investigative journalism’ videos are simply fantastic! Well done to the whole team!
Mark's videos are very good and informative. The Police deserve a lot more respect from the public.
When my mate got caught, he went to the station, got his bloods took, got too back to his car and was told he was okay to drive (2 hours after being caught)
This occurred to me as well. So they arrest you for driving after smoking three days ago, take bloods and then release you within 24hrs while you’re presumably still over their arbitrary limit, free to drive again??
Bloods get sent off to the lab. This takes a long time due to lab submission times and a backlog of samples to be tested. I know of cases where it has taken 3 months for a blood sample to be tested. No doubt you would complain if the police said "You can't drive until the lab results are back, might be 1 week, but in reality more likely to be 3 months"... "Even though we can't prove you're guilty now, you still can't drive until then".
The evidence isn't there to charge you there and then, even then until convicted you aren't banned from driving. Thus even drink drivers once arrested and charged, and once sobered up and then released from custody, can continue driving (they can't legally be charged whilst drunk, so kept in a cell until sober).
It would be a huge breach of your rights for them to send off bloods to the lab and then tell you, that you aren't allowed to drive for likely months until the results are back. There is no conclusive evidence of the offence at that time as they're awaiting lab results.
I don't smoke, drink or use any kind of illegal drug, but getting convicted over some chemical test that finds a trace of whatever in your system that you may have used 5 days prior is absolute bs, especially if you don't exhibit ANY signs of intoxication. I'm all for getting obvious intoxicated drivers off the roads, but it has to be accomplished in a realistic manner.
I find it more questionable that you obviously don't have much respect for road safety.... you're condoning people smoking illegal drugs then driving x amount of time later, when the drug is still present in their body. The obvious and most sensible answer here is either "Don't smoke weed" or "Don't drive after smoking weed". Ultimately the first one is still illegal so to do both and expect sympathy is ridiculous.
I’m 30 years young and still hoping for the day to see this plant not be taken so seriously.
Treat it the same as alcohol at least.
This was such an educational video and a video I believe that people needed to see. You will and have saved lives because people will watch this and think twice before deiving in a car drunk or on drugs.
Mam and dad lost there son to someone who was drink driving, I lost my only brother at my age of 11, it ripped me apart i went from a nice child to a messed up kid, back then in the 1970s it was hard to understand Mental Health, looking back i was a child with so much crap going inside my head that the person i really was is gone i was "dead" and did not want to know if i was right even if i was 100% wrong.
Teen life was so screwed up, hated everything but before that i loved everything in and out of school, school tests i would get 100% and was called a swat looking back i would miss off the date or the title just to get 99% and not be called a swat lol.
I found myself trying to find these people but to no joy "which" i am very happy for because back then not sure what i would have done, and you know when you get that thing in your head "wtf you doing" in my head it was your family just lost there Son they going to lose there only son if you go ahead with this, i walked away from this bad idea and never tried to find them ever again..
The truth to this story is they killed more than one person that day, they also killed me i was 11 year old kid i am now in my late 50s, and i still have mental health problems that effect my everyday life, kind of living in abody thats not me 40yrs of hell...
Think Twice before drink driving/drugs yous would hate it if it was your family members, believe its a nightmare you can never wake up from.. they say time heals thats bullshit not when someone is taking from your life from drink/drugs, i would welcome a stronger sentence when someone dies from drink/drug driving, a 1year ban for been caught doing so without harm to others is getting off light in my eyes, even if you lose everything job etc....
Just think about no one knows whats around the next corner in life it could be you just killed someone without know it was going to happen, i NEVER drink and drive tbh i never drink because of the fear i could give another family...
There is much better ways to have fun, then to drink/drugs with good friends... enjoy your full life its too short to start with..
really sorry to hear that mate but the point thats being argued is that the effects wear off maybe 8hrs after use. 3 days or more and you do not feel any effects at all. still being charged after 1 or 2 weeks is mental. I get your point of view but only if the argument was that its fine to smoke and then immediately get in the car. hope you understand and sorry again i send my condolences
Having worked in technology and worked in the prison service doing various projects, in which the police were very difficult to work with and having the majority of my friends from school joining the force, the perception that is portrayed is absolutely unbelievable, no one seems to understand that these guys are going into situations everyday where they have no idea of the individuals involved or what they are walking into, i think its an absolute disgrace that people don't understand that they are here to keep the public safe, it's not meant to be a nice experience if the police are called, if they are coming to deal with something its for a reason, they habe no idea what they are walking into and people need to understand that. In my opinion it should be an offence to film or post anything in any situation that they deal with as no one knows the circumstances, we need to have more respect for the job they do. No one talks about the long-term effects of their job and career as to PTSD, its only ever discussed about military services, it must effect the retired staff from the the services aswell the police, fire brigade and paramedics. Surely.
I find that the THC tests are not accurate in the sense that THC is stored in the fatty cells of your body . That being said you will show a positive even when you have not had it in a long while and that’s not fair to some people who use it properly ie not while driving. In like alcohol after a short while it’s metabolized and won’t show up . And if that’s the case they deem it because it’s in your system and even after time it’s not affecting you so if that’s the case you should not take tynol or anything because that alters your state according to the government.
This HAS been the case for years, just many people are not smart enough to realise it.
ANY drug, legal or not, can have consequences later down the line should you be involved in a collision, especially if it results in a serious injury or is fatal. The real deluded ones are the people who think it's acceptable to drive around dosed up on codeine or some other drug, and when they crash after falling asleep at the wheel go "It's not my fault, I'm taking medication". Of course it's your fault.
You put the legal drug into your system, and you then made the decision to drive. In the same way that a drink driver makes the decision to drink and then get in their car and drive. People nowadays take no accountability for their own actions, make excuses and blame everything on everyone else.
That's interesting. I got hit and hospitalised by a person with cocane in their system, and they didn't get their licence taken away they got a 6 month driving ban and a curfew
Jump on a motorcycle give ya self the maddest adrenaline rush ever and don't ever sweat nothing thinking your guilty will put your self in a guilty mind state 😂
Ive been done by a roadside drugs test here in Australia. Im 100% not proud of it at all. I was in a truck asleep woke up to get going and police were in the parking bay waiting for me. I hated them at the time but so happy it happened. Yes i lost everything i owned because i lost my licence for 15 months but it was a changing point in my life. Im now clean for 2 and abit years. I learnt my lesson but unfortunately some people never do.
If they were waiting for you I take it they must of already knew you’d been smoking it?
Being handcuffed in this instance is completely overkill
No it isn't.
Do you know that person? No.
Do you know they don't have a knife in their pocket, and are waiting for the ideal moment to stab you with it?
Do you know they aren't going to do a runner the second you even remotely take your eye off them?
Do you know they aren't going to quickly put their hand in their pockets, and discard other illegal drugs, or weapons, whilst you aren't looking at them?
Usually they cuff to the rear, the front is more comfortable but gives the person in them more ability....
That's absolutely crazy that the UK will take your license when you smoked cannabis last week! wow!
Ive been smoking weed and drive (not at the same time) for a good while, how am i only just now hearing avout this?? Thats absolutely ridiculous..
i stopped smoking weed because of this after 16 years of fairly heavy daily use, I really miss it but i don't want to lose my license, i would never drive stone but the test detects it days after last use even a week sometimes
That is the stupidest rule I've ever heard and I don't even smoke, but you got people running on the street doing cocaine and N2O while driving and no one is bothered
dude waited 3 days to drive 😂
i smoke and be like “yeah it’s been 10 minutes i should be good”
lol, i need a smoke just to drive on our roads !! 🤣🤣
@@Milldog2023😂😂
If you've a prescription you're fine to drive, but banned without one. Nonsense limits in place, way too low.
@@Milldog2023 potholes are so bad here in hawaii fr
i hit one this one time in my Ranger and that shit kicked me sideways i had to full countersteer to not crash
If you ever get pulled claim you swallowed some weed as soon as you pulled over cos you panicked. It will make any drug test they do inaccurate. You will get a false positive and get it thrown out in court 😂 its called post consumption, google it 😂
The only thing this video shows is the ridiculous tests for cannabis.
Hi mate, whether you agree with it or not that’s the rule so at least now this way people have a chance to make that decision with the information they need. It’s not my business to tell people to take drugs or not tell drugs, but at least now you have a fair chance of realising that if you do and drive there might be a problem. So many people are getting in trouble without knowing.
“Is the casual smoke you have with your friends worth the mates rlly worth changing your life forever” maybe just maybe the way they test is flawed and the laws in place might be a little bit messed up
Scientist said the Covid jab is ok aswell 🤣🤣🤣
Im currently 2 years into a 3 year ban i smoke a joint in the evening and own a small business it has literally cost me thousands
I knew Mark was a Stoner! 😂
Bigger Kronic than Snoop Dogg!
It was quite fun for me to hear about the consequences as I’ve been convicted of driving under the influence (thc). I’m from Denmark, and here the consequences are harder. Here we are tested per thousand in our body, and unfortunately I was 0.004% above the maximum allowed limit. It cost me a fine of 3500 British pounds (30.000,- dkk) and a 3 year driving ban. If we have any other licenses for example bus license, all of our licenses are suspended in one. I am only allowed to ride a bicycle even though I took a scooter license when I was 16. If I were to get nicked for the same thing again, the next ban will be 5 years and an even bigger fine.
Think I learned my lesson 😅
thought police arrest you if you re post someones tweet and they're "offended",
police arrest christian preachers,
and police arrest people who protest against hamas
how does this work for people with prescriptions for canabis
CBD is legal to drive on.
@@toejarmn2762he doesn’t mean cbd.. and the prescription provides a statutory defence against prosecution therefore it’s reasonable to refuse road side test and be on your way. If they arrest you then you have a nice compensation claim.
My brother gets weed prescribed.
They only get banned no drugs charge
@@leenevin8451 they don’t get banned at all they have a statutory defence meaning as long as they haven’t shown themselves to be impaired they can continue on their way without even doing the wipe (high court ruled).
It’s so crazy I remember being 16 and drunk underage drinking and I still never drove drunk and I always called someone to pick me up I haven’t drank in over 15 years
This feels more like coincidental arrests, if someone drove erratically 5 days after smoking it would be for other reasons like distraction (eg got important call, dropped cigarette on lap, argument in the car), then from those stops a % of people will have drugs in their system, but the drug is not the cause & so it's wrong to use a test that goes outside the period the drug can noticeably affect a person for!
Surely at this point Mark has to be the best UA-camr in England? His topic of videos and the quality of them is truly unmatched. No BS just videos on real life topics/issues/scenarios! Quality video again by Mark!
the police "we dont have enough time for this crime" also the police..
Late April fools haha 👍you had me at the start 😂
Anyone who agrees to a request to sit in the back of a police car after being pulled over MUST be on drugs.
Makes no difference... they don't have to get you to sit in the back to do anything, it's just easier.
Not getting in the back of the car won't stop any test or process they are going to do....
@@thefiestaguy8831 Easier for them, yes. It's confined and manipulative. They chose to pull you over, let them stand in the cold.
We need this in the states. Anyone who is under the influence of drugs on the streets. Make everything have some technology where you have to do something where your vehicle can detect if your sober or not. Kind of like the dui drivers blow thing but for everything. .
Riding my motorbike around London, you have no idea how many cars I pass next to, while filtering, drivers smoke joints with opened window.
every available storage location got me
cannabis doesnt affect your driving ability, absolutely ridiculous
Californias driving g statistics since legalising weed crashed and fatality have dropped too a lowest to back in 70s
When I got arrested for this the police let me drive home straight after being at the station 🤨
For fairly obvious reasons....
The blood test is sent off to the lab, it's not uncommon for lab submissions to take up to 3 months to be tested, depending on the number of submissions.
They can't legally say "Well mr smith, we've sent off the blood to the lab, we don't know yet whether the offence has occurred or not because we're waiting on the evidence from the lab... but in the meantime you can't drive for the next 1 week or up to 3 months until the results are back, because you might have been over the limit". "We're not going to charge you to court before we stop you driving, we're going to do it right now... "
That's why courts exists. Even drink drivers who are charged at the police station, once sobered can leave custody and continue driving. You HAVE to remember they are NOT GUILTY of the offence until convicted in a court, thus they can enjoy the same privileges as they did until convicted.
In the same way that until you are charged and found guilty at court, you are innocent. That's how law works... it's quite simple really.
"My names Mark McCann, and I was arrested for drug driving"
*video ends*
If you watch fifth gear they did a n experiment drug driver drunk driver and sober driver and the weed driver passed with flying colours better than other drivers
You're a good man Mark, and you've done some real cool shit too.
My mate left the pub after 20 odd pints and he did smoke weed but not that night, he crashed into a tree and died his autopsy stated that drug driving was the corse they didn’t mention alcohol, the reason why they didn’t mention the alcohol is because alcohol has an income for the government and weed don’t
LOL...not too often you are allowed a camera crew to document such good times! 🤣
12hrs would be acceptable but not 5 days, that's a police cash grab wrecking lives.
What happened with that guy who tried scamming you and then started threatening your family? Is there another video coming on it or did it get too serious?
Great Video Mark a really good watch and eye opener 👍👍
Great awareness Mark, amazing how many people don’t realise who long they stay in your system. Not worth the risk and your livelihood
The police van, the home of a Brummie 😂😂
Basically an Uber
@@MarkMcCann64 😂😂😂
I used the same excuse as you, id had a bong like an hour before 😂😂😂😂
Try having it 30 years ago when they beat you mercilessly and you spend almost 5 years in prison for a crime you didnt commit If you have a problem, if nobody can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire, the A-Team.
This happened to me
I smoked in the evening. The next day I drove around 3pm. Was arrested and drug swiped back to station blood taken and band for a year. But at the time I wasn’t high. Shit law. They say I was above the specified limit. Bunch of bollocks. That was 4 years ago. Now I don’t smoked 4 months in 😅😂
This was very interesting to watch, i thought the test from the side of the road will only yest positive for weed with in 12 hours of smoking, to find out its actually up to a week is a scary thought
Yes mate, and I had no idea, it is just so unknown i feel, so hopefully a bit of info will help
Its fake cus you have a mic
Oral swab wouldn’t give a positive for anything after 24-48hrs max. 48 would be extreme
Iv taken coke in my youth, and after a few days, it's out your system, but you will feel ten times the impairment than from a slpiff five days prior nonsensical
I thought the van was gonna set a lap time with you in the back😂
It shows its not related to the effects on the systems, its about making sure its an illegal drug is crushed into the ground.
ITS 4 POINT OFFENCE TO REFUSE THE SWAB. DEMAND A FIELD SOBRIETY TEST. CHECK MAGISTRATES COURT SENTENCING GUIDELINES. KNOW YOUR FIGHTS
There is no such thing as a "Field sobriety test" in the UK.
The test is done via saliva sample and can also be done via blood.
The first bloke who got arrested, I don’t really understand why it’s necessary to put him in handcuffs? He isn’t a direct threat. He has been compliant the whole way. He has just been bad for himself for taking bad decisions a day or two before.
What happens if you’re a medical patient like thousands of people in the UK?
alcohol is a hard drug , cannabis is medical , but they always punish the wrong people the hardest
Excellent video. Unfortunately the people that should be taking notice won't.
we can only try mate, hopefully will help some people keep their licenses
Ruining people's lives for smoking cannabis is a sad joke, even just after a joint, under the influence, you can drive fine, it doesn't induce you to drive faster or take more risks like alcohol, or cocaine. I despatched in bikes for 5 years in London, stoned every day, zero bad accidents. I don't ride bikes after 1 pint, even though I am under the limit, as that does affect you
Not everyone is the same though lots of people are seriously impaired after a joint so either nobody gets to drive or everyone impaired or not does that's the problem. Totally agree that the test is wrong as it isn't checking fitness to drive just for presence of drugs
Your logic is extremely flawed.
"It didn't affect me" so it won't affect anyone else then?
Flawed in the same way that Mr Smith who is an alcoholic can drink 10 pints before he starts to feel tipsy, but Mrs Thompson who rarely drinks might feel tipsy after 4 or 5 pints.
@@gges1605 yes, you are right, it does affect people differently, so how on earth can we have an effective test ? currently, you can loose everything if you walk by a cloud of smoke from someone else's joint, as the test is Boolean, likewise a level test is useless as I had a big tolerance smoking 10g a day, but could perform perfectly driving cars and riding fast bikes, fast
@@thefiestaguy8831 there was no logic, it was a statement of observations. In my later answer to the other comment I tried to start a bit, but it is very complex, due to tolerance. As I said, you can fail the current test without ever having smoked the stuff
@@Al_is_XXX You would be surprised at how much it effects your reaction times and overall judgement but like any drug if your taking it daily you get used to it and your body adjusts somewhat to its effects. I have no idea what the answer is unless they introduce a field sobriety test that could show fitness to drive until the law changes just don't drive if you know your over limit its that simple if you choose to have a joint leave car at home
“Yes I’ve committed crimes in the bedroom” 💀
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This has two meanings
@@User8383-x - this is a family channel. Do not even go there 😂
Lock him up! 😂
@@MarkMcCann64Officer Jane needs to charge you for going over the limit on this channel😂😂😂
agree with the copper saying about driving drunk or heavily on drugs is dangerous to others, yes, but to even suggest weed in your system 5 days after smoking it would affect your driving is TOTAL, and utter bollocks.
Just revenue generating and the pigs dont care whose life they ruin. Its been proven there's absolutley no impairment after 8 hours even though it can be detected in your system for up to 3 weeks but if they put a limit on it they are basically saying its OK to take it. Decriminalise it or even better make it legal then put some proper sensible limits on place like other countries have. The tax and vat they could generate on weed in this country would be enormous.
Don't do it so you don't end up funding the police as you claim about the revenue generated.
Devil's advocate here: The current tests for weed are flawed, they test for metabolites which are a signature that you've had it in your system, which is a retrospective affair. It's not an indicator of intoxication. As seen with Alex, you can be completely sober and safe to drive but because your body still has metabolites present you're classed as being intoxicated.
I don't condone drug driving, but having been convicted days after smoking I can comfortably say that it's not as clear cut as "you have x in your system which means you're y". Cocaine users avoid detection after around 3 days but cannabis can be detected for up to 14 days in your blood, there's no way in hell that you're intoxicated or impaired after a 14 day cool off.
Not in Washington state they'll take your blood and measure it in if anything is over 5 ng you're screwed. Ask me how I know and if you ever want to know what 5 ng of weed is. Picture 1 g now divide that by 100
Divide that by 100 now divide that again by 100 its bull
Spot on
No doubt when weed is eventually legalized, they'll change how they test for it too. It wont be a 'THC detection', but rather detecting a certain quantity in your system just the same as alcohol currently is.
100% agree. A spliff on the night will not leave you intoxicated the next day. Regular users can smoke all day and you’d never know they’ve smoked anything. I know from experience.
@@24alexash Well, we currently have legal weed and it's used as a defence in court. I don't know the conviction rates on medicinal (legal) vs recreational (illegal), but the fact that people do indeed get their case thrown out on that premise is a bit unsettling to me. The effects of a legal and an illegal spliff are no different, yet the courts give allowances to those who've gone the legal route.
They're testing for usage not impairment which are two totally different things, there's not a doctor or scientist alive that would claim anyone is impaired days after smoking weed.
Usage is also illegal.
@@dvs21ano it’s not.
@epicmealtimefan93 yes it is. It is a class B drug. Possession is a criminal offence.
@@dvs21a You could have a medical precription for it, so no.
@@dvs21a A swab test is no indication of possession
Imagine a regime that punishes people for being under the influence of something they're clearly not under the influence of.
Yeah being in the system means nothing the effects would go after a few hours
At first I heard “I’m gonna test you for cat piss”
I head cat piss
In Germany we would ask: " Does that Police Cabin even have TüV ?!"
I was suprised that there was no seatbelt and other safety for the arrested person.
drink driving is a diffent ball game to smoing and driving. the police are deluded to think that your unfit to drive 3 days after having one smoke! the law is driving whilst under the influence ie the effects of the drug or drink. you are not under the influence 3 days after having a smoke.
I would put a big bet on not one RTA involving a stoned driver out of any random selection of rta stats.
This country is a joke
It's not the police you want to moan at... it's the lawmakers. They're doing the job they're asked to do. The law is passed and they're asked to enforce it. People complain when they don't do their job, then people like you complain when they do their job, so which is it? Can't have it both ways. Either you want it enforced or not, it can't be enforced only when it suits you and not enforced when it doesn't suit you.
Just last week a guy I grew up with was driving drunk and hit a motorcycle killing two people. NEVER drink and drive people!!
Valid point of course. Not entirely relevant here though.