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A Marijuana Breathalyzer?
equities.com ^

Posted on 12/04/2014 5:37:59 AM PST by DBCJR

With marijuana legal in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington; decriminalized in 13 more states; and available by prescription in 6 more; there is a growing concern about driving and other activities while under the influence. Several companies are rushing to provide a breathalyzer to accommodate these concerns. The device is timely, since there is currently no way to verify recent marijuana use without taking spit or urine samples – a practice that would involve the collection of DNA and potentially run afoul of sections 7 and 8 of the 4th Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure.

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KEYWORDS: breathalyzer; buzzeddriving; cannabis; dopersrights; doublestandard; dui; dwi; impaireddriving; legalization; legalizeit; marijuana; pot; taxthehelloutofit; wod
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To: ConservingFreedom

“I haven’t heard that anyone has been fired for smoking tobacco. “

You are 2 years behind the times. Many are fired daily for smoking. Just one examle is all employees of the University System in Georgia are subject to being terminated if they are smokers. Many more examples nation wide, with more to come with tighter implementation of 0bamacare, as the gov’t gets more involved with everyone’s health choices.


21 posted on 12/04/2014 11:49:28 AM PST by wrench (Ebola is not a threat to the US. 0bama says so, and he would never lie..........)
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To: Vendome

Had a Five Vegas cigar in you honor


22 posted on 12/04/2014 11:53:57 AM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: KoRn

http://www.equities.com/spotlight/canadian-spotlight/west-points-marijuana-breathalyzer-test-set-to-smoke-the-competition :

“Our test is much more useful for roadside law enforcement, since a positive reading indicates drug use within the last two hours.”

While the Cannabix test does not quantify the amount of drugs in the system, as does an alcohol breathalyzer, Malhi reminds us that “…there are already 18 states in the US with strict per se laws that forbid any presence of a prohibited substance or drug in the driver’s body while in control of a vehicle.”


23 posted on 12/04/2014 11:55:59 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: Nervous Tick
portable machine that sniffs for Dorito-breath

Probably work for that but edibles or maybe even vaping -- not so well.

24 posted on 12/04/2014 12:05:16 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: DBCJR

25 posted on 12/04/2014 11:01:45 PM PST by wetphoenix
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To: ConservingFreedom

Trend: You smoke? You’re fired!
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The pee tests aren’t going away just because pot is legalized in some places.


26 posted on 12/05/2014 1:10:48 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: DBCJR
Just show them a Jim Carrey movie and see if they laugh hysterically.

-PJ

27 posted on 12/05/2014 1:17:59 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: a fool in paradise

“The pee tests aren’t going away just because pot is legalized in some places.”

The dopers thought this would be the case.

There is a reason it is called “dope”.


28 posted on 12/05/2014 1:20:58 PM PST by wrench (Ebola is not a threat to the US. 0bama says so, and he would never lie..........)
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To: wrench
“The pee tests aren’t going away just because pot is legalized in some places.”

The dopers thought this would be the case.

Says who?

29 posted on 12/05/2014 2:49:57 PM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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