THE efficiency of a high-tech drug-testing machine unveiled in Britain was amply proven when the government minister showing it off tested positive for cannabis.

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However, the politicians were keen to stress that such was the power of the device, positive results could easily come from so-called "cross contamination", for example by touching cash or a door handle previously handled by a drugs user.

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Police explained later that while a positive test could not be used as evidence in court, it could help police to target people to search or question.

What they didn't tell the minister is they took all the funding and spent it on a massive party with huge amounts of confiscated drugs, and then spent 10 minutes creating a simple machine that always returns a positive - thereby giving police the go ahead to interrogate innocent people whenever they like.

Full article.

them f***ers.

^^^ for not inviting you to the party? :P

any deterence on taking drugs is a good thing.

I totally agree. But it seems like they've gone too far with this one. I'd be bloody annoyed if I was stopped at an airport and taken to a room for "questioning" after some over-sensitive machine has detected that my cousin's friend's brother's former-roommate handled something illegal.

I see your Schwarz is as big as mine...

... now let's see how you handle it.

any deterence on taking drugs is a good thing

do you drink alcohol or smoke ciggarettes?

^tehy're legal d*******

just because something's illegal, doesn't make it a bad idea.
i'd say any unbiased, factual education on drugs is a good thing.

they're still drugs fukhead
just because they're legal doesnt mean they're any less harmfull.
when was the last time you head someone die from cancer due to smoking weed..

cigarettes are more harmfull than weed.
im not promoting either just pointing out that your argument is s***house

yay another drugs thread on qgl! why dont you all jsut realise that you can't really change anyone elses opinion, and stop trying to!

Marijuana - You don't know what it'll do to you!! Omg runnn


Hahahahhaah yeah I do. The Government assumes people don't have anything but the compulsory education it gives them.

cigarettes are more harmfull than weed.

wrong.

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http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/01_29_04uk.cfm

Interesting reading.
If they de-criminalise it then i'll be visiting home for a while.
:)