Three times over the legal limit for cocaine?!

[VincentHanna]

Awful story:

Mother and daughter burned to death after cocaine-using driver watching TikTok crashed into them on school run

Luke Flanagan was three times the legal limit for cocaine when he smashed into Emma van der Avoird's Peugeot as she was taking her daughter Khiana to school.

news.sky.com

Luke Flanagan was three times the legal limit for cocaine when he smashed into Emma van der Avoird's Peugeot as she was taking her daughter Khiana to school.

But help me out GD

Cocaine is a class A drug. How can there be a "legal limit" that you can be over? Very confused.

 

[MrRockliffe]

3x0=0 no?

 

[peterwalkley]

From the power of google: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/drug-driving

10 micrograms per litre.

 

[Freakbro]

Awful story:

Mother and daughter burned to death after cocaine-using driver watching TikTok crashed into them on school run

Luke Flanagan was three times the legal limit for cocaine when he smashed into Emma van der Avoird's Peugeot as she was taking her daughter Khiana to school.

news.sky.com

Luke Flanagan was three times the legal limit for cocaine when he smashed into Emma van der Avoird's Peugeot as she was taking her daughter Khiana to school.

But help me out GD

Cocaine is a class A drug. How can there be a "legal limit" that you can be over? Very confused.

That did seem odd, though it seems the answer is

Apart from very small amounts, which are deemed as ‘accidental exposure’ illegal drugs are still illegal, so the quantities that are ‘allowed’ to be found in your blood are very low. Either way, get caught with any illegal drugs in your system and you will attract the attention of the police regardless of the quantities involved.

 

[Richard - London]

"five years and seven months in prison." what a ******* joke.

 

[VincentHanna]

So basically, cocaine use in so rife that lots of people were likely showing trace amounts in their bloodstream when being tested - So they had to set a limit to ensure convictions actually happened?

Horrible drug IMO. Turns people in to absolute ***** and usually much more aggressive.

 

[plasmahal]

Cocaine is a class A drug. How can there be a "legal limit" that you can be over? Very confused.

Not confusing, you made the common mistake of believing the media. As in post #3, a quick search tells you the law is based on an acceptable limit that allows for a solid conviction. simples.

 

[adidan]

Cocaine is a class A drug. How can there be a "legal limit" that you can be over? Very confused.

Traces found in the toilets of the HoP suggests there's a legal limit we're not privy to.

Best ask Gove to clear up any confusion I guess.

 

[Junglist]

Isn't there trace cocaine on a certain, not quite insignificant, percentage of all paper money?

 

[Chris Wilson]

Isn't there trace cocaine on a certain, not quite insignificant, percentage of all paper money?

Probably but whether that's changed with the dreadful plastic notes I don't know and I ain't licking the contents of my wallet to find out

 

[Junglist]

Probably but whether that's changed with the dreadful plastic notes I don't know and I ain't licking the contents of my wallet to find out

Not even for science?

 

[rumple9]

Probably so you don't get arrested driving back from the dentist

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Poppy seeds can trigger a positive, for obvious reasons
Ie don't eat poppy seeded bread

Probably but whether that's changed with the dreadful plastic notes I don't know and I ain't licking the contents of my wallet to find out

Lol colour me surprised you hate the progress of the new notes.

 

[VincentHanna]

Poppy seeds can trigger a positive, for obvious reasons
Ie don't eat poppy seeded bread

For opium, not cocaine

 

[Freakbro]

Isn't there trace cocaine on a certain, not quite insignificant, percentage of all paper money?

Contaminated currency - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Forensic scientists have said that around 80% of all British banknotes contain traces of drugs.[

 

[Haggisman]

Poppy seeds can trigger a positive, for obvious reasons
Ie don't eat poppy seeded bread

That's heroin isn't it?

 

[Junglist]

Contaminated currency - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

More than I thought! Seems people love the nose candy

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

That's heroin isn't it?

Whoops yep

getting my naughties mixed up

 

[Ayahuasca]

The cocaine is probably the reason he thought he could pull them out of a car that would have already been burning at a few hundred degrees Celsius.

What an absolute cretin and that sentence is a joke. He’ll be out in 2 and a bit years on “good behaviour”.

 

[Efour]

Yeah 5 years out "soon" is absolutely disgusting. I hope the father and sister somehow has a violent run in with the guy when he is out. Crazy.