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Originally Posted by Tcoat
The weed ticket is irrelevant to the speeding. It is as if he received a ticket for tinted windows or no front plate after being caught. You are placing far more importance on it then there is. The "if" statement is a clarification of the requirements and as such is not false.
The only way the weed would have factored in is if he had been charged with impaired.
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It's much closer to an open container/bottle charge than a tinted window or front plate violation. It factors in precisely because the guy was going 160+ mph on public roads.
I'll put it this way. If a guy arrived to a track day with a bag of weed or alcohol in his cupholder, I absolutely would not run in the same group or session as him. It may not have been proven that he's high or drunk, but certainly the risk is there and moreover there is circumstantial evidence that he is or is intending to be. And that's just with a track day in a controlled setting! The danger is much higher with some random guy deciding he wants to go 160+ on public roads.