New Handheld Drug Test Uses Electrodes and Saliva to Sniff Out Cocaine in Five Minutes

Great. With child-leashes, RFID chips, GPS locator, spy software for PC and phone, and now this, I can ensure my kids are in complete slavery until they're 18, and can legally escape my "parenting".

Keep up the good work. After all, this is the only way to ensure they don't get abducted and killed next time they smile at a stranger.

Just remember that big Pharma spends billions each year! Big pharma wants you taking their drugs, not naturally occurring ones that mankind has used for millennia (which in often cases such as pot are safer with less side effects – just read your next prescription pamphlet).

Nowhere in the United States Constitution does it allow our politicians to have you arrested and put you in prison if you prefer Pot instead of Booze. Dear President Obama: please stand up to the Liquor Corporations and the corrupt politicians who support them. End the Drug War on Americans who prefer Pot instead of Alcohol. Appoint Judges who are not corrupted by the Liquor Corporations and Pharmaceutical Corporations. Support Freedom for Americans. Support Freedom from the Liquor Drug Monopoly.

Whatever happened to the freedom to choose for yourself? If you buy land, why can't you do/grow what you want as long as its not hurting or bothering anyone? If I choose to self medicate, why is that a crime? I should be able (as well as everyone else in this country) to choose what I think is best for me! It's MY body, not yours. It's legal for me to make my own alcohol for my own personal consumption. I can grow tobacco for cigarettes as well. What’s the freaking deal? IS this a free country or not?!?!?! Either I can make my own decisions without being persecuted or I can't...make up your mind America.

@ Siromar

Maybe you don't care if you kids get run over by a drunk or a junkie high off crystal meth, but other people do.

If cops can use this to get drunks and junkies off the road, then that's good for EVERYONE. Nobody says you have to use the product if you don't want to. Nobody really cares if you think this is another form of "control" against you...it's for people who want it to ensure their kids aren't on drugs or cops needing to find out how drunk or if someone is truly under the influence of drugs.

@ Siromar - Clearly you are a child, rather than a parent. Adults realize, from having been kids themselves, that while teenagers believe they understand the world and their actions, they are woefully naive and need limitation.

This is why every adult in your life has told you that someday you will agree with all of that controlling that your parents do and that you hate. You know that they are telling you the truth, because EVERY adult tells you this - and adults are not clever enough to create a conspiracy that tight.

Just like one day you realized that girls were not only lame cuddie-wads of grossness, but hot and good for kissing, you will one day realize that your parents love for you can be measured by the limitations that they put on you as a child.

If you disagree now, wait 15 years, and you won't disagree.

@ ThisNameisTaken -

What you do to your body directly affects society as a whole. You have no right to rob society of your beneficial actions through self destruction or commiting negative actions. We, as humanity, a community, your family, etc have invested years of time and money in you since you were born. You have a civic duty to repay that debt (for the first two decades of life) and for the continuing freedoms, liberties, and privaledges you enjoy.

In other words, if you smoke yourself into imbecility at the age of 25, who is going to replay the cost of feeding, clothing, sheltering, and educating you? No, you have the responsibility to repay society through being a productive member of society (paying taxes, taking care of aging parents - or passing it on by raising your own children well). You are not an island, whole unto yourself. It is not YOUR body - we (humanity) paid for it.

How many thousands of years passed before man was even granted (and only in the most developed of nations) the rights of life (not to be killed without cause), liberty (not the be a slave), and the pursuit (not necessarly attainment) of happiness/property? But now, a mere few hundreds of years later, you want to pretend that you are so entitled that you can do whatever you want to with yourself, reguardless of its cost to others? There is a reason we send selfishness like that to prison - because it is cheaper and better for humanity to remove such anti-social behavior before it spreads.

Your arguement on the legality of booze is truely only a good arguement for prohibition, not for the legalization of any other intoxicant.

This is not a free country - it is a country with freedoms - most of which are very exspensive. Ask a soldier about that cost.

If this device helps parents raise socially productive children, schools to identify students in need of rehabilitation, police to identify and remove dangers to society, and employers to screen out employees with production lowering habits - then it will undoubtably help make the world a better place.

@Oakspar77777

Invested in us?!? That's laughable... You're right, we will be left with all of your generations debt to repay...

Most of our recent presidents have smoked marijuana, are they not productive citizens? Everything you are spouting is taken directly from inaccurate propaganda.

Prohibition does not work. It creates a black market, which fuels criminal organizations.

For the last 10 years studies have shown that kids can get drugs easier than alcohol and tobacco. That gas station attendant will card your child, but will a drug dealer?

About your comment on setting limitations... Back in high school, I always loved the sheltered goody goody girls. They were the biggest whores, they were just really good at hiding it, probably because of practice with their Nazi-like parents.

I can't wait until you older people, who are stuck in your ways and won't listen to science and facts, die off.

By the way I will be getting of work at 5:00 pm(9-5er). I plan to go home and unwind with a nice bong rip. By the time I wake up I will be 100% and ready for work.

@Oakspar77777

Of course you call me a child. That way you can dismiss everything I say as you do with your own children. You could've just summarized your argument by "it is because I say so." and saved us both a few minutes.

Not only am I an adult, I most likely have more experience with children than you do. Your attitude has nothing to do with protecting children. And the social norms that you seem to hold so dear are neither infallible nor unchangeable. Even your very idea of a "minor" is a very recent phenomenon that did not exist just a century ago.

Children are part of the human race, and what is dangerous to them is dangerous to adults as well. Your brand of protection is designed to relief you from the burden of actually teaching them. Why get into the complexities of social interactions, when you can simply order them never to talk to strangers. Why risk dealing with their mistakes (which are an important part of growing up) when you can simply monitor their every move and ensuring they don't deviate from your preconceived plan for them.

What Gen X produced is a socially inept, apathetic, disinterested adults. The relation between parents and children have never been so antagonistic. This is not the 50s rigid family structure (where kids were actually much more free), but distant working parents who realize military control over their offspring is the only way they can maintain the self-centered lifestyle we have come to enjoy.

But hey, maybe I'll see the light in 15 years.

@Oakspar77777
120 years ago, you could be a pothead, and nobody would care; they don't have to take care of you, and neither did their tax money go to government taking care of you. That is as it should be; society is not a collective as you seem to think. I am an individual, and if I want to trash my body and life with heroin, I should be allowed to. Despite your beliefs, it is MY body, I have the right to do whatever the hell I want to do with it. If I succeed in life, good for me. If I don't, its my own damn problem; I'm not asking for societal handouts.

Also, as an aside, pot is much less dangerous and addictive than both tobacco and alcohol.