Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – University of Texas-Dallas researchers may have solved a problem for Texas law enforcement.
Researchers at UTD Have developed a possible tool for law enforcement to use during assessments of driver impairment — the new study focused on THC, and involves the creation of a sensor that uses saliva to determine a subject’s level of the psychoactive component of pot in their system, and can do so within a minute.
Earlier this year, a new Texas law allowing farmers to grow hemp sparked the dismissal of hundreds of low level marijuana offenses.
Prosecutors state-wide said it was because they “could not definitively distinguish between marijuana and hemp without a laboratory analysis.”
The study is published in Nature Scientific Reports.
(Photo: Dr. Shalini Prasad (front), interim department head of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, holds the THC biosensor her team developed. In back, from left, are electrical engineering PhD student Devangsingh Sankhala, research engineer Paul Rice and biomedical engineering PhD student Vikram Narayanan Dhamu.)
(Copyright 2019 WBAP/KLIF 24/7 News. This report contains material from UTD)
