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The Marijuana Breathalyzer’s Uncertain Future

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 01/05/2016 - 08:45

The test could help reduce the number of intoxicated drivers on the road—or it could turn up too many false positives to be useful.

Mike Lynn is cau­tiously ex­cited. A 49-year-old fam­ily man who lives in the Bay Area, Lynn has been an emer­gency-room doc­tor at High­land Hos­pit­al for most of two dec­ades. His com­pany, Hound Labs Inc., has just de­veloped the tech­no­logy to pro­duce a breath­alyz­er that can de­tect marijuana, but its fu­ture is un­cer­tain.

Lynn, who has some ex­per­i­ence in­vest­ing in bi­otech com­pan­ies, is also a re­serve deputy sher­iff for Alameda County. To­geth­er these ex­per­i­ences led him to won­der if tech­no­logy might play a role in pre­vent­ing ac­ci­dents caused by drivers un­der the in­flu­ence of marijuana. No pur­it­an, Lynn also wants to make sure law-abid­ing weed smokers won’t get in trouble for the wrong reas­on.

“It doesn’t make any sense at all to ar­rest some­body that smoked last...

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