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oftenwrong on Jan 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: American justice system ignores science in the pur...

Field tests for Marijuana also seem to regularly be baseless.

A couple had their house raided partially because some loose leaf tea in their rubbish bin field-tested positive as marijuana:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/12/19/...

Police using unproven "drug recognition expert" training to "detect" marijuana use via body language:

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/the-drug...

More on faulty drug testing:

https://www.cacj.org/documents/sf_crime_lab/studies__misc_ma...

wonderwonder on Jan 24, 2019 [–]

In Kansas now this is not even relevant. Police just have to claim to 'smell marijuana' and they can search a home without a warrant. The 4th amendment is being whittled down to nothing.

https://www.countable.us/articles/17230-kansas-supreme-court...

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