A county sheriff in Arizona is now field-testing a CDEX METH GUN, which is a $500 device that can spot even tiny quantities of methamphetamine residue on clothing and other surfaces using ultraviolet light. The gun goes into production later this year. Future improvements will detect other drugs, according to the company. Every evangelical church should have one!
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Comments:
I resent the broad brush you're using to paint "Every evangelical church" in a bad light because of Ted Haggard.
"The next step is to convince the courts of the science behind the detection. That way the justice system will accept it like it already does with radar guns."
I wonder if this company will learn to make sure their source code is open in light of the court battles won by victims of faulty breathalizers?
Also, nothing in the article says it can differientiate between "incidental" amounts accumulated by walking through air laced with it (ie you neighbor in your apartment complex might be making meth) and amount confirming that the person is a user/dealer
I resent the broad brush you're using to paint 'Every evangelical church'
LOL! That's a joke right?
I can just see Bob Ross as an evangelical leader trying to paint with nothing more narrow than a common shop broom... Better reinforce the 'ol easel before attempting the knockety-knock-clean-the-brush thing with that - nevermind finding a terpentine can big enough to dip it in...
Give me a break. You bring this on yourselves.
In contrast, I find the 'broad brush' quite a humorous strategy to point out the hypocrite nature of those on the frontline of morale crusades. Him who's without sin use the first Meth Gun.
Hey, all I'm sayin' is "trust -- but verify"...
... with a meth gun.
Mike Elgan
I beg to differ on this claim that all evangelical etc Christians are against certain natural substances. Okay, meth is disgusting stuff that is horrific in its effects to humans. But the point is this: The current war on drugs is ineffective and leads to massive abuses against individual freedom and rights.
Secondly, when it comes to natural herbs like cannabis/hemp/marijuana, there are quite a few Christians who have not fallen into the lie of the war on drugs advocates. Here is proof:
http://christiansforcannabis.com/e107/news.php
" ABC News reports that a Christian woman who examined research on marijuana found "no evidence to back up the horrible things she had heard about the drug." A Bible study on the topic turned up nothing negative, so "she began to wonder why some religious leaders seemed to favor stiff penalties for marijuana users." She even decided to try smoking pot.
According to ABC, the woman, who is 35 and a mother of five, then decided to launch a "Christians for Cannabis" Web site, and to begin a grass roots campaign aimed at encouraging legislators, religious leaders and newspapers to rally for an end to the marijuana prohibition. The mission of Christians for Cannabis is "to provide encouragement, support and prayer for the [Christian cannabis user] subculture as a whole and those that work on its behalf."
ABC notes that while Christians for Cannabis is a bit unusual, it is not the only religious group advocating an end to the war on drugs. The Presbyterian Church (USA), the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and the Progressive Jewish Alliance are among the groups that have "lent their support to a call by the National Coalition for Effective Drug Policies to redirect efforts to curtail drug use. These organizations all make clear that their opposition to current drug policy is based not on support for drug use, but out of a belief that the war on drugs has done more harm than good and that it is essentially immoral."
This can be found at: http://www.crosswalk.com/1143874/
I am amazed at the lack of real concern about the implications of this device. I believe that "probable cause" to search is where the legal implications and constitutional sticky points come in regarding this. Not to worry we Americans will be more than willing to give up another civil right if the government tells us that people who use drugs are terrorists. After all if you have nothing to hide, what is the problem? The problem is, one day we might discover that we all have something or another to hide and that something could be used against us by mistake or by abuse of power.
America, put down your charge cards, stop self medicating with the latest gadget and wake up It is just a matter of time before the "i-thought gun" is released and if our thoughts are not in line with the corporate-political structure..
whats the point? its not that hard to tell if someone is tweakin hard. and what difference does it make? more people in prison? more people put on the stand when they obviously need some help?
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