Is this weed breathalyzer for real? Don’t hold your breath.

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This post is part of our High-tech High series, which explores weed innovations, and our cultural relationship with cannabis, as legalization in several U.S. states, Canada, and Uruguay moves the market further out of the shadows.


Will you soon be blowing into a tube connected to a handheld gadget that can tell an officer or an employer whether you’ve toked in the last few hours?

That’s the vision of Hound Labs, a Bay Area company that announced Wednesday it had completed a successful clinical trial for its “world’s first” marijuana breathalyzer. The company says it will move forward with making a commercial product with a roughly $5,000 price tag, primarily aimed at police and construction companies.  Read more…

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