METH IS HARD
Posted on 10/05/2007 5:36:44 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
A local company thinks it's found a way to help fight meth.
CDEX Inc. has developed a device which can instantly detect trace amounts of the drug.
Right now it's being tested in Greenlee County, northeast of Tucson.
"When you pull the trigger, UV light comes out of the lamps," says Wade Poteet, the principal scientist behind the scanner.
In an instant the scanner knows if a substance is meth or not. It detects traces of the drug down to one tenth of one millionth of a gram on clothes, skin, and other surfaces.
The sheriff's department showed us how it works on real meth seized as evidence.
"Just point and shoot. Keep it simple," Sexton says....."
(Excerpt) Read more at kvoa.com ...
I was never good with meth.
Oh great. So the dollar bill I got in exchange at the grocery now tags me as a meth dealer?
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METH IS HARD
It puts you under “suspicion”.
And just what they needed, another “gun”.
Meanwhile don’t you think about carrying guns around. Makes their job “more dangerous”.
I sometimes wonder about the priorities of the tassle-loafered a$$holes in our government(s).
Bing for later!
FBI Calls Drug "Detection" Device "A Fraud" (March 1996)
As was reported in the February issue of NewsBriefs, the Quadro Tracker is a small, 3.5-ounce black box with an antenna ("Drug 'Detection' Device Marketed to Schools; Secret Technology Creates Skepticism," NewsBriefs, February 1996). It comes with a number of "insertion cards" that its developers say will detect marijuana, gunpowder, and cocaine. Quadro Corporation Vice President Malcolm Roe, who is an electrical engineer, said the Quadro Tracker works by sensing the unique wavelengths produced by the molecules in controlled substances or gunpowder. "When scanning people, the QRS 3000 will recognize the existence of illicit drugs whether they are on or in a person, or even in the bloodstream," an advertisement for the Tracker claimed. The company said the Tracker works through magnetism, and therefore needs no batteries. The unit's technology has not been patented because the company does not want to reveal how the drug detection cards work.Scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico and the FBI Engineering Research Facility in Quantico, Virginia tested the Tracker, but found it was nothing more than an empty black box with a transistor radio antenna attached. When they opened the gunpowder, marijuana, and cocaine cards, they only found a sheet of white paper coated with plastic and human sweat. The paper is similar to that used in candy wrappers.
(note I make no claims about the site I am referring to here, I just remember the general fraud that was carried out and didn't even recall WHEN it happened).
Next they’ll scan you and seize your car if positive.
The RIAA won a civil suit today when they showed that it was likely that a woman downloaded 22 ongs and did thousands of dollars of damage with each infraction.
How they got her name, address, and the details of her downloads remains a mystery because those who decry the wiretapping of foreign based terrorists communicating with agents in America on disposable cellphones are protected from wiretaps so you’d think that there would be better security concerns over those who are just surfing the WWW.
Oh wait the DCMA came to us courtesy of the Hollywood White House in the 1990s.
"What are those powdered flakes on your donut? I'm going to have to take that..."
I remember that one!
My thoughts exactly.
You nailed it brother.
Yep. First thing I thought about too. Our money is so dirty that you could probably detect any kinds of stuff on the bills in your pocket if you really wanted to.
It made me think of Elmer Fudd and the video scanner he used to go hunting with and the Coyote’s acme rocket that was programmed with a picture of the target.
Such mirth.
If your money is dirty, surrender it to the proper authorities who will gladly accept it “no questions asked”.
And the sooner the better. Judge Bottomfeeders daughter wants a CD player in her Pantera.
one tenth of one millionth of a gram on clothes, skin, and other surfaces.
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What about currency?
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