Driving While Stoned: New Breathalyzer Device Sniffs Out Marijuana

A Gallup survey from March 2015 revealed that 18.9 million Americans, ages 12 and over, used marijuana within the month prior to the survey. Already four states—Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Alaska—and the District of Columbia have passed measures legalizing marijuana, and an additional 14 states have decriminalized some amounts of possession of the substance.

“At the same time that marijuana use is growing dramatically, law enforcement has been impeded by the lack of tools to help identify stoned drivers and get them off the road,” according to the company Hound Labs.  

Now, the company is claiming they’ve created a technology capable of detecting THC (tetrahyedrocannabinol) levels below 500 pg in a breathalyzer test.

According U.S. News & World Report, the technology will be tested early next year in clinical trials.

“Measuring marijuana is not a simple extension of the technology in current alcohol breathalyzers,” according to Hound Labs. “The...

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