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    Raineyb1013Monique Judge
    3/18/17 10:00am

    According to the Times, the machine only looks for the active THC that is responsible for the high, and not the inactive THC compounds that can stay in a person’s system for weeks. This means that someone who legally smoked marijuana a few days prior would have nothing to worry about.

    I’m not buying it. These people use a field drug kit that will test positive for drugs on baking soda but I’m supposed to trust their machine can tell the difference between the THC that was recently smoked versus that which remains in one’s system?

    Not bloody likely!

    https://www.propublica.org/article/common-roadside-drug-test-routinely-produces-false-positives

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      TypicalBayAreaFanRaineyb1013
      3/19/17 1:15pm

      I smoke weed every day. I will have THC in my system for at least the next two weeks if I were to stop right now. I’m extremely skeptical an officer would believe me and let me walk than cuff me and have the system sort it out. Which you know, costs me a lot of money and even more time.

      But it’s all in the name of public safety right? Right?

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    Not Enough Day DrinkingMonique Judge
    3/18/17 12:13am

    This means that someone who legally smoked marijuana a few days prior would have nothing to worry about.

    Color me skeptical...

    Also several of those drugs listed are legal with prescriptions. For example, adderall is amphetamine sulfate, which would get flagged, but people on adderall are probably the most attentive drivers on the road! So now if you get pulled over, tested, fail because of your legal prescription, you have to go through the hassle of proving yourself innocent while a cop is going through the process of arresting you.  

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      BurnerBurnsBrightNot Enough Day Drinking
      3/18/17 3:44pm

      Marijuana also falls into this category since it’s licensed for medical use.

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    JadaGMonique Judge
    3/18/17 9:28am

    This shouldn’t even be a thing. Yes, people can be intoxicated, but I doubt you’d see someone on a full high of cocaine driving a car (well at least down south I’ve never seen or heard about it) I know some of those drugs can be given in a prescription so you should carry your prescription around or your legal drug container for proof? This just seems very fishy.

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    Meyer Lansky SqarrsMonique Judge
    3/18/17 12:47am

    So, how unreliable are they?

    I’m going to go way out on a limb and guess: Fucking very.

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    OneHeadLightMonique Judge
    3/18/17 9:15am

    Please remove the apostrophe in ‘driver’s’. I can’t go on with my life until you do.

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