Can You Drive After One Drink In Arizona?

Alcohol is a fun, semi-cheap, and legal way to enjoy your nights. Whether with friends out at a local bar, or sipping on a glass of Bourbon to wind the night down, many people across Arizona have healthy relationships with the intoxicant.

Alcohol does impair you though. Your thought process, motor skills, and more are dumbed down, and that makes driving an impossibility.

The Legal Limit

The "Legal Limit" refers to the amount of alcohol in your blood, more commonly referred to as your Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC). Every state has a slightly different limit, but for Arizona, the number is 0.08%. Being tested for this BAC while behind the wheel of a vehicle will immediately land you a DUI.

Since alcohol tolerance differs from person to person, there's a very real possibility that you do not feel impaired at all, even with a BAC over the legal limit, but regardless, being caught driving with a BAC at 0.08% or above is going to get you in trouble.

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"No Tolerance" State

Wile there is a legal limit in Arizona, we're also what's considered a "no tolerance state", meaning even if you are under the legal limit, if you show any sign of impairment whatsoever, you can be arrested and booked for a DUI.

This also qualifies for Marijuana use in state, even if you have a medical license. Regardless of the substance and your tolerance for it, driving impaired is not only illegal, it's incredibly dangerous, and you should do everything in your power to ensure you don't do it. Call a friend, Uber, or whatever you have to to get home safe.

[Aaron Black Law]