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Researchers: Police Drug Tests Always Test Positive

Researchers from the biggest marijuana policy reform organization in the U.S., Marijuana Policy Project, have revealed just how easy it is for the police to make drug tests display a positive result, even when the user hasn’t consumed any drugs.  In the video, the researchers take an over the counter Tylenol PM and test it for cocaine – the results come back “positive”. Thefreethoughtproject.com reports: The group also tests the most popular chocolate in the world, Hershey’s chocolate, for marijuana, it also tests positive. Perhaps the most disturbing test was when the group put absolutely nothing into the field test kit, and they received a positive result. The implications associated with wrongfully accusing and then claiming to have evidence of an individual in possession of an illegal substance are formidable — to say the least. Most people are simply unaware of the fact that police test kits are a crapshoot. According to Forensic Resources: The director of a lab recognized by the International Association of Chiefs of Police for forensic science excellence has called field drug testing kits “totally useless” due to the possibility of false positives. In laboratory experiments, at least two brands of field testing kits have been shown to [...]