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With marijuana legalization one big step closer to becoming a reality in Canada, a Vancouver company says it has developed a prototype device for catching drug-impaired drivers.
Canada's next prime minister Justin Trudeau has promised to legalize and regulate marijuana for recreational use, and that's raised concerns about a possible increase in the number of impaired drivers on the road.
Cannabix Technologies president Kal Malhi says recent studies have found that THC — whether smoked or ingested — was expelled through the lungs over a two-hour period.
The challenge is putting the technology in a handheld device that can be used by police as a reliable roadside test.
Malhi says his company has been working on a new device for a year and a half that looks and works much like an alcohol breathalyzer — using technology known as high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry....
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