A press conference was held for many police officers, showing them the results of many of their Field Drug Tests, and just how likely it is that a false positive would be the result of the test, whether or not the person tested had toxins in their systems. A sad realization for many officers was that 70% of the testing devices gave false positives. The study that the results came from was titled “False Positives Equal False Justice” written by a forensics expert in collaboration with other FBI scientists and narcotics detectives and officers. The conclusions drawn by the study and those that are lucky enough to be aware of it are that this drug testing policy for officers to commence a drug test in every situation they deem it necessary (most often a traffic stop) was in fact violating every American’s constitutional rights. Police, lawyers, judges, the courtroom were using these tests as definitive evidence, even in cases where a person had paid for their own lab work to be done. They were using these pieces of “evidence” to prosecute and convict millions of individuals, primarily for breaking laws associated with anti-marijuana regulations.

There is actually a Supreme Court ruling in standing at this time that says clearly that the courtroom cannot use as admissible evidence an inaccurate/nonspecific test  meaning that all of these people were charged and convicted without any proof that marijuana was ever actually present, whether on their person, or in their system.