Teri Moore
Policy Analyst, Editor, Reason Foundation
Teri P. Moore is a policy analyst and editor at Reason Foundation.
Moore served two years in the Peace Corps in Africa before settling on a career in law enforcement as a military police officer in the U.S. Army and then as a patrol officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. As a police officer, she worked narcotics and was a certified Drug Recognition Expert Instructor.
Moore is author of The Secular Homeschooler, a book about teaching kids independence, critical thinking and character.
She has a B.A. in English from The Evergreen State College.
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Massachusetts’ Legislation for Marijuana-Impaired Driving Needs Some Work
Some of the state's recommendations have little or no connection to driving impaired by THC.
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California’s Contractor Law Manages to Be Bad for Workers, Customers and Companies
California risks killing off the new economy by dragging it back to an obsolete approach to work that fits poorly with today’s technology-based jobs.
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Is a Device to Detect Marijuana Impairment by Tracking Eye Movement in Virtual Reality Possible?
Such a device could determine whether a driver who has used marijuana is currently under the psychoactive influence of the drug.
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Marijuana Legalization Can Help Solve the Opioid Problem
Marijuana legalization is chipping away at the social and personal harms of dangerous drug use more effectively and vastly less expensively than the failed War on Drugs.
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How Illicit Drug Policies Undermine Good Police Work, or ‘The Toothpaste Effect’
For narcotics units, success is not measured in crime but in kilos.
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How Do Police Officers Determine Marijuana Impairment in Drivers?
Now that several states have legalized medical and recreational marijuana, police have to come up with a strategy for determining when drivers under the influence of marijuana are impaired.