{"data":{"id":"us-ca/veh-312","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"VEH § 312","heading":"","body":"The term “drug” means any substance or combination of substances, other than alcohol, which could so affect the nervous system, brain, or muscles of a person as to impair, to an appreciable degree, his ability to drive a vehicle in the manner that an ordinarily prudent and cautious man, in full possession of his faculties, using reasonable care, would drive a similar vehicle under like conditions.","path":["Vehicle Code - VEH","DIVISION 1. WORDS AND PHRASES DEFINED [100. - 681.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"7da00b32a8580c75e266c5edc6fc041a254d5f4b61c17199a43e38ee312333cb","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/veh-311","next":"us-ca/veh-312.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}