Device Detects Drug Use Via Fingerprints 224
cylonlover writes "Fingerprints have been used to confirm or determine peoples' identities for over one hundred years now, but new technology is allowing them to be put to another use — drug testing. Intelligent Fingerprinting (a spin-off company affiliated with the UK's University of East Anglia) has just unveiled a prototype portable device that can detect the presence of illicit drugs or other substances in a person's system by analyzing the sweat in their fingerprints."
How about for paramedics? (Score:4, Insightful)
Get called out for somebody collapsing in the street. Press their sweaty fingers to a reader. System reads back any known medical history for that person, as well as any interesting chemicals detected by the reader.
Re:How about for paramedics? (Score:5, Insightful)
Get pulled over for a burned out tail light. You're tired and look a bit under the weather. Cop presses your sweaty fingers to the reader. You go to jail for a joint you smoked 5 days ago.
Re:How about for paramedics? (Score:5, Insightful)
What kind of dystopian hell-hole do you live in where you can be jailed for having traces of drug metabolites in your system? Even Iran isn't *that* bad...
Re:How about for paramedics? (Score:4, Insightful)
America. Home of the Free, Land of the Brave.
Re:Great Ford! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:How about for paramedics? (Score:2, Insightful)
Maybe get over that idea that you should be able to tell others what to do if it does not affect you
Barking up the wrong tree (Score:0, Insightful)
Prohibition is about one thing and one thing only: MONEY. Not very romantic, is it? But most people don't even stop to think about it. They actually believe that prohibition has its roots in morality or even conformity.
It's hardly that romantic. Prohibition exists to line the pockets of those who designed the system.
Prohibition rakes billions of dollars per year through the business of government. The more cash passing through the hands of the elite at the top of the pyramid, the better positioned they are to leverage that cash flow for personal gain.
Re:These people can go to hell (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:How about for paramedics? (Score:5, Insightful)
Pot is in your system for thirty days, the effect of the high is a few hours.
By your logic we should be able to give a driver a dui ticket for a beer he had two weeks ago.
Frankly you dont have a right to tell anyone what they do with their body, so maybe you should stfu.