While drug tests can tell if a person recently consumed cannabis, there’s currently no way of measuring whether or no a person is high, something that’s becoming increasingly important as more and more U.S. states legalize the drug.
But that may be changing.
Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and ElectraTect, one of the university’s startups, are testing a promising “cannabinoid fuel cell.” They believe that further testing will provide key understandings on marijuana breathalyzers, facilitating their existence at some point in the future. The findings were published in the journal Organics.
Researchers explain that the device they’re working on is able to spot THC and measure its concentration in a solution, unlike previous efforts that measure THC in blood, urine and saliva. While bodily fluids will show traces of the drug after its use, these results are not indicative of current impairment,
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