Another Traffic Freebie

Another effort to hamstring police proposed in Springfield:

• (via the 016/017 Police Scanner X/Twitter feed - no working link available) - State senator Rachel Ventura (IL-43), who represents many parts of Bollingbrook, Romeoville, Lockport, Joliet among others, has proposed a bill that
  
  
   "Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Removes the requirement that cannabis within any area of a motor vehicle must be in an odor-proof container. Provides that if a motor vehicle is driven or occupied by an individual 21 years of age or over, a law enforcement officer may not stop or detain the motor vehicle or its driver nor inspect or search the motor vehicle, the contents of the motor vehicle, or the operator or passenger of the motor vehicle solely based on the odor of burnt or raw cannabis."
  
  
  This is akin to allowing people to drive with open alcohol.
  

Seeing as how you can't drive more than a block without smelling weed emanating from parked cars, cars on streets, cars on the highway, trucks and bicycles, it's not difficult to say that driving while high is a very big issue. We'd estimate that nearly 10% of drivers are high as kites and a friend over at MAIU claims that personal injury / fatal accidents involve weed over 60% of the time, surpassing even alcohol the past few years.

But hey, keep the police from enforcing the law.