On May 6, Canadian media–including The GrowthOp–breathlessly reported that lawyers at Acumen Law had tested the federally approved Drager DrugTest 5000, which subsequently showed false positives for opioids, cocaine and other drugs after subjects consumed benign items such as Tim Hortons’ poppyseed cake, CBD extract and a particular tea.
Vancouver lawyer Kyla Lee made headlines with allegations that 17 minutes after eating a piece of the cake, Doroshenko tested positive for opioids.
There’s a problem, though: Draeger representatives are saying the device tested by Lee and Doroshenko isn’t the same device used by Canadian law enforcement officials.
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“It’s the same device that’s used in Canada–it looks the same, it acts the same, it is the same. The difference between them is programming. Ours is the law enforcement version–it is not the workplace version. I’m not going to say how I know that, because I don’t want Draeger to know where I got it from, and because I don’t want anyone to get in trouble. But it is a law enforcement version,” she insists.
Doroshenko also declined to name the provider, noting via email that the purchase was made “from a police supplier and is police-approved for the United States,” and that acquiring the device “wasn’t easy.”
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