Vancouver lawyer Paul Doroshenko has added to his extensive collection of alcohol-detection devices by acquiring a Dräger DrugTest 5000, as the federal government gives the go-ahead for the pot-testing device.
Doroshenko’s firm, Acumen Law Corp., has had the operating manual for the German device for a year and acquired a model six weeks ago to test its reliability.
Doroshenko has since determined the device’s procedure, unlike roadside alcohol breathalyzers, is lengthy and intrusive.
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“I figured out a problem valve in it could increase the reading by mistake,” Doroshenko said. “And the valve would jam, an officer could assume that’s a refusal (when no reading was recorded).
“That was the death knell of that machine.”
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