In most legal states, police are using saliva and blood analysis to police stoned driving. As it stands, none of the testing methods that police are using out in the field to bust people for driving under the influence of marijuana are actually effective in gauging impairment. Cannabis advocates have long since argued that using breath detection to determine marijuana impairment should be avoided because it does not determine whether an individual is under the influence of drugs. After all, the firm would never persuade a group of investors to pour money into the device if it was not almost guaranteed to become the solution to the nation’s stoned driving conundrum. But because of the way marijuana metabolizes in the body, these methods do not produce accurate results.
Although many companies have tried and failed throughout the years to create a legitimate roadside detection method for gauging marijuana impairment, a recent multi-million dollar investment in Breathalyzer technology could be an indication that an effective test is on the horizon.
According to a report from Business Insider, Silicon Valley’s Benchmark Capital, the venture capital firm that took early chances on Uber, Snap and Dropbox, has thrown more than $8 million at Oakland-based startup Hound Labs to get its new marijuana Breathalyzer off the ground.
Hound Labs made headlines back in 2014 when the company revealed that it had...
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