Drug Test Kits Used By Police Count Everything as a Drug...Even Chocolate bars

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According to the national litigation and public policy organization, the Innocence Project, at any given time there are an estimated 40,000 to 100,000 innocent people currently locked in a cage in U.S. prisons.

Couple this staggering number with the number of people locked up for non-violent drug possession and the United States looks more like the Gulag of the 1930’s than the Land of the Free.

But how can so many innocent people be locked up, how does the state present evidence, that it doesn’t have, to get a conviction? Well, the folks at the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the U.S., Marijuana Policy Project, made a short video that explains just how easy it is for police to turn an entirely innocent person into a criminal.

During the short video, the researchers demonstrate how easy it is for police to generate a false positive during a field test for drugs.


Read more at Researchers Expose Police Field Drug Test Kits - They Test Positive to Just About Everything

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

This is a clear indication that the fabrication of evidence by police is widespread.

 

[Katzndogz]

If the person has used marijuana, it's not a false positive. There is no way to make pot into something harmless.

 

[woolster22]

If the person has used marijuana, it's not a false positive. There is no way to make pot into something harmless.

And there is no marijuana test equivalent to a breathalyzer. Testing positive for smoking weed in the last few days should never serve as a conviction for driving high.

 

[Katzndogz]

If pot is in their system they are high.

 

[The Professor]

If the person has used marijuana, it's not a false positive. There is no way to make pot into something harmless.

And there is no marijuana test equivalent to a breathalyzer. Testing positive for smoking weed in the last few days should never serve as a conviction for driving high.

You are correct. Further, even a failed breathalyzer test does not necessarily prove a person guilty of DUI.

“A Breathalyzer presumes the entire volume of air being measured is from the driver's lungs. It is therefore susceptible to falsely elevated measurements from any alcohol trapped in the mouth or esophagus. Alcohol may be retained in dental work, such as bridges or caps, and may remain in the esophagus after vomiting or due to any sort of gastric reflux disorder. Mouthwash, breath mints and other products may also contain alcohol and cause an erroneous BAC reading.

“It is important to note that alcohol is not instantaneously absorbed into the blood, so BAC results can sometimes be refuted with a "rising BAC" defense. A test that is delayed up to an hour after the initial stop may indicate intoxication, even though the alcohol had not been sufficiently absorbed at the time of driving to cause impairment. This argument works both ways, depending on the delay between the driver's last drink and the administration of the test (since an impaired driver can sober up while waiting to take the test).

Passed a Breathalyzer Test? It Won't Always Get You Out of a DUI - FindLaw

 

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If the person has used marijuana, it's not a false positive. There is no way to make pot into something harmless.

Yes but these drug tests pull positives from everything. They arent trying make pot into something harmless, they're making harmless things into harmful drugs

 

[jon_berzerk]

Drug Test Kits Used By Police Count Everything as a Drug...Even Chocolate bars

yes even the chocolate bars laced with cocaine

--LOL

 

[JoeMoma]

This should be common sense. If a drug test is not reliable because too many substances result in false positives, then the drug test should not be used. Either it works or it does not.

 

[Godboy]

If pot is in their system they are high.

Um, no. The high is gone in a couple hours, but the THC stores in your fat cells for a month.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

If pot is in their system they are high.

Not true.
THC is detectable up to 30 days after use.

 

[Two Thumbs]

According to the national litigation and public policy organization, the Innocence Project, at any given time there are an estimated 40,000 to 100,000 innocent people currently locked in a cage in U.S. prisons.

Couple this staggering number with the number of people locked up for non-violent drug possession and the United States looks more like the Gulag of the 1930’s than the Land of the Free.

But how can so many innocent people be locked up, how does the state present evidence, that it doesn’t have, to get a conviction? Well, the folks at the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the U.S., Marijuana Policy Project, made a short video that explains just how easy it is for police to turn an entirely innocent person into a criminal.

During the short video, the researchers demonstrate how easy it is for police to generate a false positive during a field test for drugs.


Read more at Researchers Expose Police Field Drug Test Kits - They Test Positive to Just About Everything

my company uses that and no one got arrested.

and it's easy to get another test, before or during your trial.

 

[J.E.D]

According to the national litigation and public policy organization, the Innocence Project, at any given time there are an estimated 40,000 to 100,000 innocent people currently locked in a cage in U.S. prisons.

Couple this staggering number with the number of people locked up for non-violent drug possession and the United States looks more like the Gulag of the 1930’s than the Land of the Free.

But how can so many innocent people be locked up, how does the state present evidence, that it doesn’t have, to get a conviction? Well, the folks at the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the U.S., Marijuana Policy Project, made a short video that explains just how easy it is for police to turn an entirely innocent person into a criminal.

During the short video, the researchers demonstrate how easy it is for police to generate a false positive during a field test for drugs.


Read more at Researchers Expose Police Field Drug Test Kits - They Test Positive to Just About Everything

my company uses that and no one got arrested.

and it's easy to get another test, before or during your trial.

There would be no trial if a person's arrest wasn't based upon a faulty test.

Hilarious, right?

 

[Moonglow]

If pot is in their system they are high.

Where is the dumb button!!??

 

[baileyn45]

I can remember when radar guns first came out. I have a cousin who is a local police officer, he showed me how accurate it was one day by pointing it at my garage. It was doing 43 mph. He laughed and said he knew something was up when a car drove by him on a city street at what appeared to be a reasonable speed and the gun said 115 mph. Much of the technology used is wanting. I took a breathalizer test for fun once, same cousin, 10 minutes after using Listerine I was just under the legal limit.

 

[HenryBHough]

If there mandatory drug tests for would-be gun purchasers the entire liberal contingent would be precisely as defenseless as they wish you to be.

 

[HenryBHough]

Years ago I saw a radar based speeding charge thrown out when the defense lawyer jingled a keychain for the radar and it showed it to be careering at the judge at 75 MPH despite never having left the lawyer's hand. Surely they've been improved by now....haven't they?

 

[Jarlaxle]

If pot is in their system they are high.

If you knew ten times as much as you know, you might know one-tenth as much as you think you know.

 

[pwjohn]

If pot is in their system they are high.

nonsense

 

[pwjohn]

If pot is in their system they are high.

If you knew ten times as much as you know, you might know one-tenth as much as you think you know.

she actually believes all that propaganda pimped out by the war on drugs people.