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It is not at all clear how existing CA DUI law --- which is very specific about measuring the influence of alcohol, but completely vague about the influence about drugs --- would have meshed with Prop 19, which spoke only of avoiding conflict with statues against "impairment".

Your question regarding whether the measure needed to explicitly lay out each and every &c &c? Yes. That is what they needed to do. This is a point Steve Yegge made, persuasively, last year (in "Have you ever legalized marijuana?"). The details killed this proposal.




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