I agree with MikeHz (I always read that as Hertz) with this one. If a person isn't socialized enough to live among civil society, and transgresses a law, he should be punished by a set time of removal.
It depends on the law, some laws are only there because they were lobbied by a bunch of bureaucratic fucks.
You can find plenty of examples of that by state-by-state legislation. Pot, abortion, buttfucking, the DUI skirmish that resulted in .08 from highway funding- courtesy of MADD.
People love to argue that DUI law as safety to the citizenry, I think its nonsense in a country that has equal gun homicides to drunk driving deaths.
...and the special case of THC-DUI, which in some cases includes zero tolerance, meaning if
any is found in your blood, you're DUI per se (legally so, regardless of whether you are
actually DUI.) This is important, because in most states, you can have THC in your system--well over the stated limits, typically between two and five nanograms per milliliter--and not be measurably impaired
at all. We defeated a 5mg bill in Colorado last year, and the same asshole is coming back this year, with bigger and bolder lies than last year. It took a major effort to get it tossed at around 8:30pm of a
morning hearing, and
we don't get paid to fight it. Those assholes get paid, and they pull every trick in the book to try to get these things railroaded through, which they eventually do, such as the bill that made it "illegal" to grow in most counties (by zoning it out), even though the constitution clearly states that patients have a right to grow for themselves.