Medical Testing Question....

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14. But this does lead to the pssibility of an arcane method of checking for illicit drugs

Don't they now have smell machines - machines that can detect odors and analyze them? Yes, they do - or will soon!

These Machines Will Be Able to Detect Smells Your Own Nose Cannot
We're getting closer to the day when your smartphone knows you have a cold before you do
By Randy Rieland
smithsonian.com
January 30, 2013


To mimic smelling, tiny sensors would be integrated into smartphones or other mobile devices and, as a breathalyzer can determine alcohol levels, they would gather data from the smell of your breath by detecting chemicals that humans wouldn’t perceive and send it to a computer in your doctor’s office. The thinking is that eventually this would be a core component of home health care–the ability to “smell” diseases remotely, such as liver or kidney ailments, asthma or diabetes.

Or on a more basic level, as IBM’s Hendrik Hamann put it: “Your phone might know you have a cold before you do.”

IBM is also working with health care organizations to equip patient and operating rooms with sensors that can help address one of the biggest problems hospitals face today–how do you keep them hygienic? Hundreds of sensors will basically sniff for cleanliness, identifying the chemical compounds that create odors, some of which are undetectable by humans. The staff can say they cleaned a room; the sensors will know if and when they did.
More: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-machines-will-be-able-to-detect-smells-your-own-nose-cannot-8790482/?no-ist

So what if they make a machine that can detect illicit drugs and set it loose to wander around your workplace, a school, public sidewalks or transportation? And if it detects a smell it doesn't like, it alerts the authorities - or takes a picture like a red light camera - and sets them after the emitter of the smell?

Talk about Big Brother intruding everywhere!

Only slightly