Photos by Brittne Lunniss

ABSTRACT:

After two drinks, do you think you could accurately guess your blood alcohol content? Do you think just under 0.08% is safe to drive?

In Washington, State Senator John Lovick, a former Washington State Patrol Trooper and Snohomish County Sheriff, has been arguing for years that it’s not. Session after session, he’s introduced bills to lower the legal blood alcohol limit from 0.08% to 0.05%, and session after session, the bill has languished in committee.

We here at The Stranger realized that we didn’t have an informed opinion on his bills, because we didn’t know how different 0.05 and 0.08 would feel, or how many drinks it would take for us to get there.

So we devised a semi-scientific experiment using 10 subjects, too much alcohol, and Mario Kart 6

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