Brian Lehrer Weekend: NJ Drugged Driving, Deregulated Flying, Lehrer Award 2023
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
New Limits On New Jersey's Drugged Driving Detection Protocol (First) | What Deregulation Did to Flying (Starts at 21:53) | Celebrating Those Who've Welcomed Migrants into Our Communities (Starts at 47:03)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Brian Lehrer here, up next Brian Lehrer weekend. |
| 0:02.9 | Three of our favorite segments from the week, packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend. |
| 0:07.5 | So enjoy and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org. It's the Brain Mayor Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. The holiday |
| 0:39.3 | season always comes with lots of public service announcements to try to prevent drunken driving and the crashes that come with it right and now in the legal cannabis era there are driving while high warnings too but on on the road itself, how does a police |
| 0:54.6 | officer know if someone is driving illegally because they're stoned on weed? |
| 1:00.0 | Well the New Jersey Supreme Court recently changed how the result of a controversial |
| 1:05.2 | police method used to determine if someone is driving under the influence of marijuana |
| 1:11.3 | is used in court. |
| 1:12.9 | The methods used by what are called drug recognition experts. |
| 1:17.2 | Why are they controversial? |
| 1:18.3 | Well, the science behind these |
| 1:20.0 | has come into question by experts, judges, and civil rights advocates who say the protocol |
| 1:25.3 | could lead to an increase in unnecessary drug driving arrests and prosecutions. |
| 1:30.9 | So let's talk about it. |
| 1:31.9 | Joining us now is Jellani Gibson. He's talk about it. Joining us now is Johnny Gibson. |
| 1:33.9 | He's the lead Cannabis reporter at N.J. Cannabis Insider, |
| 1:37.8 | which is part of the Star Ledger or N.J.com. |
| 1:41.6 | If we have time, we'll also touch on his other recent reporting on apparent |
| 1:45.9 | municipal corruption in the state that's affecting applicants who want to get |
| 1:50.3 | their hands on Cannabis Shop licenses. |
| 1:53.0 | He says it may be impacting the very people, |
| 1:55.0 | New Jersey's legal weed licensing laws |
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