Sorry stoners, we can see your stash on your prints

Seems like this is an easy way for cops to slap on a few extra charges.

"Well you see Judge, we were just looking for prints to see who stole the computer, but it turns out, there were drugs all over the prints, and they belong to this fellow here."

Just because you have weed residue doesn't mean they can do anything, your not in "possession" of any weed, so they can't really do anything.

Guess I'll be wearing Latex gloves a lot more...

i thought everyone wears surgical gloves when pacakaging their drugs...I know i do!!!!!

what an invasion of privacy

How will they ever prove the traces came from touching the illegal substance directly not just touching something that someone else had touched with an illegal substance?

Didn't I read American dollar bills have the highest traces of cocaine of any nation? So getting change from McDonald's could totally lead to felony charges for drug possession?

Sound sketchy.

Damn good point damneargenius

I think this is ridiculous, I mean how far will the goverments go to prosecute people who dabble with the fun stuffs while hardend criminals by and large escape free?

It seems to me that the war on drugs (or however your country terms it) is focusing on the wrong things. Forget the little people and go after the big ones, if you have to at all. Personally I'm for de-criminalisation of all possession and use.

Oh snap. I should cut down on the cannabis then.

1984

Things are gonna get crazier and crazier.

We need a revolution before it can even begin to get better. Scary folks are in control.

LOCK DOWN
**********************
control

is what it's all about

gotcha!

brave new world and 1984 combined. scary scary world we live in now isnt it?

If you aren't doing anything wrong, who cares.

If you're getting fingerprinted, it's really the weed in your pocket that you should worry about- not the pot under your fingernails. Besides, this technology could also give one more piece of evidence in the prosecution of people suspected of gun crimes-- or so my CSI reasoning tells me. I can see it now-- "Grissom, we found traces of gunpowder in his fingerprints!"

You see Crashboy, it is not about doing wrong things. It is more about the government's constant hammering at the constitution. This here may fall under invasion of privacy.

I'd compare this to the universal I.D. that they [the government and congress] are trying to impose. People say if your not doing anything wrong, why worry? Well a good reason to worry is that not everyone likes to carry around identification as if they were a robot in a facility. By not carrying the I.D. you could be placed in holding cells until they can identify you. This great nation is being turned into a police state if ordinary citizens must be branded with numbers and letters

Having one billionth of a gram of drugs on your finger prints isn't a crime. It's not something the DA can charge you with.

This is just another thing cops can show to a judge in order to obtain a warrant to search your house. Or to try and prove you touched the bag of drugs they found on your friend. Things like that.

More power to em ... anything that they can use to remove, potheads, crackwhores and other junkies out of circulation the better.

Busted!!

Nice to see the war of drugs is going so well. Now if I could just smoke the fingerprints that would be a better invention.

too bad this test will have as big of an impact as a lie detector test has in court.

hey big brother, you watchin? ok good i dont want any personal liberties or anything, thanks for completely finding every way to track down my every action so i cant live as a free, unadulterated, american citizen anymore.

Dave's not here man.

i smoke marijuana on a regular basis. i am not hiding this fact from anyone.

How long of a time range can they detect things? I mean I haven't smoked weed or built a bomb in months, but could they still trace it?

Maybe this is a chance for them to legalize weed, tax the crap out of it, and treat it like it were alcohol.

Wow,

SFPD smoke pot with perps.... not worried in the least mang...

Good thing I'm a robot. I don't have to worry about prints. I can get away with murder...

...and I have...