Intoxication is not a scientific term. It is purely subjective. Fifteen years ago the legal standard was .1. Today it is .08. And if MAAD gets its way, it will soon be .05. There are people you know and see every single day who never get below a .15 who are more "sober" than the soccer mom who drank half a margerita before dinner last night and who wouldn't test out at .01. You can talk about horizontal gaze nystagmus and all that, but they said the same thing about .1 that they now say about .08 and that they will say about .05.
People are individuals. At .10, some people are flying high and some wouldn't even be out of the gate.
Correct, but the number is the legal standard, is it not?
It is a legal standard for operating a vehicle and for nothing else. It does not apply to any other activity and really shouldn't even be mentioned unless you are trying to set up a narrative that may or may not be true.
