What I read
In the article "Cocaine breathalyser 'one step closer'" (2018), researchers in US have developed a low-cost chip that can detect cocaine in minutes. This chip can tell that if a person has used drug by analyzing substances extracted from blood, breath, urine. This chip is also cheap to produce and have the sensor to detect cocaine then will scatter the light. In future, researchers hope that this chip can detect marijuana.
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My response
Nowadays, the number of drugs is increasing all the time. However, we cannot solve this problem for a long time. I think that if we can produce this low-cost chip and provide it to every area in country, the number of drug usage will be decreasing. Because the drug user will be afraid of getting caught up.
I also think that this chip will solve some school's problems such as student using drugs. Because of its cheap price, this chip can be access to every space. The police or inspector can easily investigate the drug user.
This chip can be the thing that can develop or improve the system of investigating drugs. Because, for example, in Thailand there are many drugs sellers and drug users, so if we can provide this chip to many area , police can easily inspect the drug users.
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My question
Do you think that this chip can make a big change to community?
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I think it's useful to be able to measure the content of drugs in the blood, but for very different reasons to Bee's. The facts from looking at drug use before criminalization and after legalization suggest an interesting correlation: that making drugs illegal actually increases use. We see this in the sad history of China's experience with opium in the 19th century. It was only after foolish emperors made opium illegal that its use skyrocketed and caused massive social problems for China. When it had been legal, use was low and the social problems were low.
ReplyDeleteAnd as the movie The Godfather accurately shows, it was making the drug alcohol illegal in the US in the 1930s that enabled the mafia families to become powerful and corrupt the US legal system. Exactly the same has happened with making other drugs illegal, as we see in the US, in THailand, and elsewhere. Decades of solid facts show that making the personal decisions of adults criminal does not reduce drug use and only benefits mafia scum and corrupt officials, which I think is why corrupt officials and mafia scum want the drugs such as marijuana and yaa baa to be illegal - they don't want competition from respectable providers, and they don't care about the social harms caused by the morally bad laws.
Finally, the experience of Portugal, which decriminalised having all drugs, including heroin, for personal use in 2201 has had only positive social benefits, including reduced drug use. The only people who have been hurt by making all drugs non-criminal in Portugal are mafia groups and corrupt law officers. Personally, I don't think we should worry about hurting corrupt officials or mafia groups.
On the other hand, its use as a device for quickly checking whether a driver has been using a drug is an excellent idea. Using drugs and driving, as Thailand's massive Songkran road toll shows, is a major cause of drug harm to others, although that's mainly from alcohol more than from any other popular drug that people like to use.
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