“If you feel different, you drive different. Drive high, get a DUI.”

That’s the theme of an effort by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to help local law enforcement be highly visible from now through Labor Day as they crack down on those taking the risk to drive impaired.

Even in states such as Ohio where (despite lawmakers’ best efforts to subvert the voters’ will) adult-use cannabis is legal for recreational use, it is still illegal to drive under the influence. It doesn’t matter what substance is to blame.

But, according to West Virginia’s Governor’s Highway Safety Program, many drivers do not believe getting high affects their abilities in the same way as alcohol.

As the NHTSA notes, it is illegal EVERYWHERE to drive under the i

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