Both [blood and urine] can provide evidence that you’ve been using marijuana — so if possession or use is illegal, then the police might have a case. But if you’re in one of the 29 states that, along with Washington D.C., allow some of kind of pot use, then it’s impairment while driving they’re after….

Both [blood and urine] can provide evidence that you’ve been using marijuana — so if possession or use is illegal, then the police might have a case. But if you’re in one of the 29 states that, along with Washington D.C., allow some of kind of pot use, then it’s impairment while driving they’re after.

The company will also target employers wanting to use the device to measure whether workers are impaired on the job instead of whether employees may have smoked (legally) days or weeks earlier but are not impaired at work. -Read Full Article

Con este nuevo e innovador invento los departamentos de policía tendrán en sus manos una nueva herramienta para detectar cuando una persona esté realmente bajo la influencia de la droga. -Read Full Article

“No one wants drivers detained or wrongfully arrested because residual THC was detected days or even weeks after use. That’s the fundamental flaw of current detection methods that rely on tests of bodily fluids such as saliva, blood, and urine – methods that cannot isolate recent use because they detect THC long after the window…

Testing breath is the only way to determine recent marijuana use, and to correlate the resulting measurement with impairment. Hound Labs CEO, Dr. Mike Lynn, explains why this is crucial for both safety and fairness.

Dr. Mike Lynn, CEO and Co-Founder of Hound Labs, talks about the THC concentration in today’s marijuana products versus the THC content in the past, and the risks this poses.

“Unlike the Potalyzer, The Hound uses breath, not saliva, to detect THC in the system.” Read More

Inverse Covers The Marijuana Breathalyzer Development Race “We want this to work,” she said. “We want to make sure the wrong people aren’t wrongfully arrested.” Read More

Hound Labs CEO, Dr. Mike Lynn, explains why mixing marijuana and alcohol is so dangerous, and then questions of common sense behind the choice to drive high.