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hobbit709

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1. nothing surprising there.

Reply to RainDog (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2011, 10:49 AM

Dec 2011

Lots of tests give false positives and all of them have been used to convict someone.

Friend of mine just went through two years of BS on a false positive for meth on a hair follicle test.
Turned out that the refrigerant chemicals he worked with as a repairman gave false positives. took two years to clear his name with TX CPS.

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