1. Driving Under the Influence was illegal before the marijuana law and is still illegal after the marijuana law.
2. There is no evidence from the article that the driver just recently started smoking marijuana when it became legal.
Facts are stupid things.
Personally, I am not sure what I think of legalizing marijuana. On one hand, I don’t see why an adult shouldn’t be able to use it responsibly in the privacy of his home. On the other hand, you don’t want children having easier access to it
Kids started reporting several years ago that they could get pot more easily than they could get cigarettes or beer. It appears that the most effective way to keep pot out of kids' hands is to legalize it for adults - so sellers have an incentive not to sell to kids (namely, the loss of their legal adult sales).
Maybe it is because my parents smoked and drank, but I never had any problems getting cigs or alcohol. We had an unlocked liquor cabinet a open packs of cigs all over the house that I could tap into throughout high school. Pot was definitely more difficult to get. You had to have connections and seek it out, sometimes spending an entire evening doing so. Sure there were a good number of potheads, but it frankly wasn’t worth it to me as I really didn’t care for the substance enough (plus my parents saw it as no different than cocaine or heroin).