Exhale: A Marijuana Breathalyzer Is In The Works
Break the news to your delivery guy gently: It looks like there’s a marijuana breathalyzer in the works.
CBS News is reporting that a California-based laboratory will begin clinical trials for a device that can detect marijuana impairment early next year. Hound Labs, Inc. has been working with researchers at University of California, Berkeley, to come up with a way for law enforcement officers to detect impairment from marijuana in a similar way to how they detect alcohol impairment, which can be used quickly and conveniently in a road stop.
While there are marijuana-detecting devices on the market now, they’re cumbersome and inconvenient, requiring testing of bodily fluids, like urine or blood. They also have unreliable results, with tendencies towards false positives due to benign substances or detecting use from weeks before. The new device will be able to test breath, rather than blood,...
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