Friday, June 17, 2005

Super efficient drug-testing machine tags politician

The efficiency of a high-tech drug-testing machine unveiled in Britain was amply proven yesterday when the government minister showing it off tested positive for cannabis.

However, the politicians were keen to stress that such was the power of the device, positive results could easily come from so-called "cross contamination," for example by touching cash or a door handle previously handled by a drugs user.

So what's the point?

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