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

[JoeMoma]

 

[whitehall]

You could have seen it coming. The pot head left is now concerned about a hershey bar testing positive for marijuana. Field tests don't result in conviction, they only justify reasonable cause for arrest. It's blood tests that ultimately result in conviction in DUI alcohol and DUI marijuana.

 

[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.

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

Hilarious, right?

Get falsely arrested - sue the cops and the system, then laugh your way to the bank.

this would happen, a lot, if these test were actually bad.