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yes, it has happened, but it is not illegal in all states.

legalizing marijuana would make the current drunk driving problem many times more difficult in terms of detection and enforcement.

Are you trollin' us? Aside from not being able to use the breathalyzer, why would anything else change? Our field sobriety tests test physical and mental capability such as standing on one leg, walking backwards, and reciting the alphabet backwards. And everybody knows what weed smells like.

Here is some additional data, for those interested:

Binge Drinking by State
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_alc_con_bin_dri-health-alcohol-consumption-binge-drinkers

DUI Laws by State - notice how the binge drinking states have lower fines
http://www.1800duilaws.com/forms/statesduilaws.asp

Drunk Driving Statistics - notice how the high binge drinking states do not correlate to high percentage of drunk driving fatalities
http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html

In states where people don't drink as much, there are more alcohol related fatalities! Why? Because they can neither drive nor handle their liquor! (ducks)

You took the wrong impression away from that video. Most all states have minimum fines. A minimum fine is the bare minimum that a judge can order. It isn't like a speeding ticket were you know your going to pay $90-$120 or so depending on your speed. All states have a license suspension period too. All states that I know of also have jail time that can be asigned at the discretion of the judge too. You have to also realize that you can be prosecuted to DUI even if you aren't driving. Simply putting the keys in the ignition to listen to the radio is enough in almost every states to get a charge and most likely a conviction when the cop lies and attempts to say you were too drunk to start the car.

That being said, I'm sure there are people who have slid through the cracks and didn't get punished strict enough. I know a guy who got his 15th DUI in 20 years before he lost his license permanently. But then again, he never had them when he got his 3rd DUI all the way up to his last. He also got in a lot of other trouble too like 2 years in jail total and a fine he won't be likely to be able to pay in the rest of his lifetime. But until they are paid, they hold jail over his head and tell him to report for a drug and alcohol screening randomly. BTW, 5-10 of those DUIs were on garden tractors while mowing his lawn, bicycles, and boats while fishing. He wasn't behind the wheel of a car on all of them which is probably why he didn't get long jail time before.

Nearly all states have consequences for refusing but those consequences are way less worse than a DUI conviction so unless you know you are under the limit you better refuse the tests in MA too. The advice is still valid in your state.

Check out the following website or go to the MA dmv site too if you want to see that you are wrong thinking refusing is not a good idea:

http://www.1800duilaws.com/states/ma.asp

I know people who have gone through the process and have talked to attorneys who practice in states all across the US and everyone of them say DON'T TAKE THE BREATHALYZER! It can only be used against you. Think about it this way. If you are over the limit and take the breathalyzer then now they have hard evidence to use against you in court and you probably will get convicted of the DUI end of story. A lot of states also will automatically suspend your license if you blow over the limit so your license will be suspended no matter what anyway. In MA if you refuse your license is suspended for 180 days.

So, if you are over the limit and refuse you will lose your license for 180 days but then after that you at least will be able to drive if you are not convicted of the DUI. If you do blow and are over then you will probably immediatly have your license suspended anyway PLUS if you are convicted (if you blow over the limit you probably will be convicted unless you can get them to lower the charge) you will lose your license for a year. I am not quite sure about how it works in MA but in IL the initial suspension for refusing the test is separate from the suspension after you are convicted so instead of subtracting the time you have already been without your license from the 2nd suspension you will have your license suspended for the total of the 2 suspensions (I think a first offense refusal and then conviction of DUI is 30 days plus 1 year).

The breathalyzer can only do you harm unless you know you are under the limit. Since the machines do not seem very reliable anyway I don't see why you would even want to mess with it unless you absolutely know you are under the limit in which case you probably won't be questioned about drinking anyway (except at night when they ask EVERYONE that questions). Do you understand now?

But now their only hope is to find reasonable doubt in the form of bugs in the source.

That's not true. Even if the source is 100% bug free, the assumptions they use to model the physical systems in question may be in error. Breathalyzers are good at measuring alcohol content in air, extrapolating that to alcohol content in blood is a tricky business since no two people are exactly the same.