This report has been compiled pursuant to a joint effort by The Walsh Group and The American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Substance Abuse and funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to examine the feasibility of uniform per se (or zero tolerance) legislation for the offense of Driving Under the Influence of Drugs (DUID). The purpose of this report is threefold: 1. To summarize aspects of the current DUID laws for all 50 states and the District of Columbia; 2. To identify the contestable issues that might arise in a discussion of implementing per se laws for DUID in the individual states; 3. To provide anecdotal information, where possible, depicting the States' usage of Drug Recognition Experts and Evaluations in the investigation and prosecution of DUID.
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