How The New Marijuana Breathalyzers Work
New technology will allow officers to test for marijuana on someone’s breath, and could save lives.
One version of the pot breathalyzer is being developed by a chemist at the University of California Berkely. Matt Francis has been working on the project for the last 18 months. “We had to develop some new chemistry that can actually be done. It was not obvious when we started that we could tag this.” The technology would allow officers to be able to detect marijuana on someone’s breath and determine if they had smoked it recently.
Mike Lynn, the CEO of Hound Labs has also been working on a similar product for a long time. “We have tremendous interest from not only law enforcement, employers who are struggling with this problem, but also the cannabis industry who knows you can’t be driving stoned. Everybody really accepts that.” Lynn believes the breathalyzer will actually...
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