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  • The only threshold that will automatically get you a reckless driving violation in CA is over 100 mph

    Texas has no defined speed threshold

    Alabama, where I lived previously on the east coast, has no defined threshold

    The guideline for officers in CO is to consider a reckless driving ticket at 26 over the limit and above

    I could keep searching individual states but I guess my point is there are many states where 20 over is pretty much a common thing among drivers and not typically punishable with a reckless driving charge. I haven’t spent much time in the northeast, perhaps things are different there.


  • Lol no, you have to be going something like double the speed limit most places to get arrested

    You might get a ticket, but almost any judge will throw the ticket out if they write you up for going 5-10 over. Some places will write the ticket anyways in the hopes of making some extra revenue, but generally speaking it’s not a ticket that is worth writing because it’s so easy to get tossed out.


  • What part of the country are you from? IME that’s far from universal. I have gotten pulled for 20+ over in multiple states and it’s often just a warning, if I do get ticketed it’s just a ticket and that’s the end of it:

    When I had first gotten my license in CA I got pulled over while doing 105-110 in a 65 mph zone. The cop wrote it up for 99 mph, which was a simple speeding ticket without the option for traffic school. I went to court and the judge knocked it down to a <$200 ticket with traffic school so I didn’t get any points on my record.

    85 mph in a 65 is normal in a ton of states, they’d be they’d be writing up people for reckless driving in every other traffic stop if 20 over were the threshold.






  • Absolutely. There are definitely still holdouts but it represents a major change.

    Some highlights:

    • In 2021 the Director of National Intelligence issued a memo clarifying that past, or even current, marijuana use is not determinative in issuing security clearances. It may be considered a sign that someone would break protocol but that approvers should use a “whole person approach”. She said in a later interview, “We recognize, frankly, that many states have legalized or decriminalized marijuana use and wanted to be sure that we’re not disqualifying people solely for that purpose in that context.”

    • Late 2022, the Biden administration requested that the scheduling of Marijuana be reviewed with the presumptive result it will be reclassified as no longer Schedule 1

    • Early 2022 the house of reps voted through a bill officially legalizing recreational marijuana at the federal level. It lost by a few votes in the senate. It received bipartisan support.

    • Late 2022, the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee voted through a proposal explicitly prohibiting federal agencies from denying security clearances over marijuana alone. It was later squashed by a couple old guard GOP senators.