Scientists Unveil Weed Breathalyzer

[indagroove]

Scientists Unveil Weed Breathalyzer, Launching Debate Over Next Steps

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/05/7578...breathalyzer-launching-debate-over-next-steps

 

[MedFaced]

Assholes.

 

[AgentPothead]

The remaining steps, he says, include testing the prototype and correlating the device's output to the driver's level of impairment.
So they made a device that can detect THC, which is like 20% of the problem. Now they just have to quantify the amounts, which is the other 80%. Then they have to somehow tie those metrics to how "stoned" a person is. Which is gonna vary a lot depending on who they test.

 

[Guest]

Looks like hope for the future.

 

[Guest]

Assholes.

Thanks for putting on display how ignorant of the big picture you are for us adults in the real world.

 

[GOT_BUD?]

I have zero concern over this. I've been followed by police several times while stoned. I've interacted with them in a professional capacity while blazed out of my mind.

When you look at me, it screams "undercover cop". Or so I've been told. Nope. Big 'ole stoner who knows how to look the part and how to act when I'm high.

 

[MedFaced]

Thanks for putting on display how ignorant of the big picture you are for us adults in the real world.

Wtf are you talking about, son. It doesn’t do anything to measure impairment. Did you bother to read it, or just form an opinion and post?

 

[armedoldhippy]

Wtf are you talking about, son. It doesn’t do anything to measure impairment. Did you bother to read it, or just form an opinion and post?

it will take years to figure out impairment, and that will be different according to how much you smoke, or how often you take edibles/dose size etc. i wish it WAS as cut and dried as with alcohol. the lack of standards is one of the really big concerns lots of folks have with legalization. but fuck, even with alcohol it is an arbitrary setting that is not always accurate. if they fall back on only detecting THC in your system (which can be found for up to 90 days), then it aint worth a fuck. what pisses cops off is that you can be shitfaced on weed but still pass their "balance on one foot/touch your nose/etc " tests used on drinkers. i'm not sure they will EVER find a suitable solution...

 

[troutman]

If you have the right to remain silent. Maybe you have the right to not blow.

Keeping you mouth shut is the way forward. If the police force you to talk with threats they violated your rights.

Record everything and post it on YouTube.

 

[Slashemup]

The marvels of corporate technology making our lives so easy not.

 

[armedoldhippy]

If you have the right to remain silent. Maybe you have the right to not blow.

Keeping you mouth shut is the way forward. If the police force you to talk with threats they violated your rights.

Record everything and post it on YouTube.

the law here is that you may not refuse the test. if you DO refuse, they automatically suspend your license etc. plus, they have the option of getting a warrant & doing a mandatory blood draw at a hospital. so, breathe or bleed, your choice.

 

[Chevy cHaze]

I'm not afraid of a scientifically sound method to measure if you're blazed becomes available to LEO, I'm worried about the fact that comp will offer half baked solutions to governments under pressure to "regulate" who will then deploy them wether they're ready for market or not.
Like the piss tests we had in Europe which showed positive weeks after last consumption based on the amount of THC metabolites in your urine which said ZERO about potential impairment but gave them the right to take your license and make you undergo a pricey psychological assessment and up to 3 additional piss test you had to pay for over the course of a full year to steer you back on the path of the ""right path".
I am disgusted by things like that.

Fucking Gestapo.
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[Ahabicus]

yea... but think about all the people who got "impaired" because they had a blood test and pot was just there... regardless of their intoxication.