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Australia: Cannabis saliva testing ‘not about impairment’

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 04/22/2015 - 08:00

Medical-cannabis campaigners have slammed the increasing use of roadside saliva testing by police on the north coast and across the state to fight illegal drug use, saying the devices used are inaccurate and having negative impacts.

With just over a week to go before the 23rd annual cannabis-law reform Mardi Grass festival and rally at Nimbin, the state government is being urged to re-look its saliva-testing program, which the cannabis-law-reform lobby says unfairly targets medical and recreational cannabis users and has ‘nothing to do with (driving) impairment’.

MPs and medical cannabis experts will attend the event, where some will look at the experience in the US (in which almost half its states have legalised medical cannabis), and where the issue of how to deal with saliva testing and the legal medical/recreational use of cannabis is being grappled with.

In the past few months police have conducted numerous saliva-testing operations around...

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