Las Vegas Metro Police are taking a very literal approach to training on cannabis impairment: watching people get high in real time.
Through hands-on “Green Lab” sessions, volunteers consume cannabis under controlled conditions while officers look on, then immediately run them through standardized sobriety checks. The goal is to help Metro officers better tell the difference between legal use and actual impairment behind the wheel, a judgment call that is far trickier with cannabis than with alcohol. The training push comes as Las Vegas adjusts to licensed consumption lounges and growing questions about how to keep roads safe.
As reported by FOX5 Las Vegas, Metro partnered with Planet 13 so officers could watch volunteers inhale or ingest cannabis, then attempt balance, coordination and cognition exercises. The station noted that its June 3 segment included footage of officers performing standardized field sobriety evaluations on the participants after they dosed…