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These common drug tests lead to tens of thousands of wrongful arrests a year, experts say. One state is fighting back

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sample taken from a bag hidden in a vehicle tests positive for marijuana with a colorimetric drug test. - Ken ...

Colorado becomes first state to ban arrests solely based on field drug test results

Colorado has become the first state in the nation to prohibit arrests based solely on colorimetric drug tests, also known as ...

Colorado passes first-in-the-nation law, banning arrest based solely on common drug tests

Colorado has become the first state to pass a law banning an arrest based solely on a colorimetric drug test, a common tool ...
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State Sen. Weiner bill would limit police use of some drug tests over accuracy concerns

SAN FRANCISCO – State Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, introduced a bill on Tuesday that would prohibit law enforcement from making arrests or filing charges based only on certain field tests ...
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This field drug test confused bird poop for cocaine. It has led to thousands of arrests, anyway

Law enforcement across the country is using a roadside drug test that is mistaking common foods and even bird poop for ...

'I don't do cocaine' | Commerce City woman's legal battle over false drug test echoes in landmark law

Colorado became the first state to restrict police use of colorimetric drug tests due to high false positive rates following ...
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These common drug tests lead to tens of thousands of wrongful arrests a year, experts say. One state is fighting back

Bird poop scraped off a man’s car appeared on a drug test as cocaine. A toddler’s ashes registered as methamphetamine or ecstasy. And a great-grandmother’s medicine tested positive for cocaine – ...