State of Iowa v. Erik Milton Childs

WATERMAN, Justice.

In this appeal, the defendant asks us to overturn State v. Comried, which interpreted Iowa Code section 321J.2(1)(e) (2001) (operating while intoxicated (OWI) statute) to ban driving a motor vehicle with any detectible amount of a prohibited drug in one’s body, regardless of whether the ability to drive was impaired. 693 N.W.2d 773, 778 (Iowa 2005). This defendant was stopped for driving over the cen-terline and admitted to smoking half of a joint and being under the influence of marijuana. A drug screen detected a nonim-pairing metabolite of marijuana in his urine. He filed…