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by kevinpet 3831 days ago
> the Office has conducted “thousands” of field tests and the only false positive results of which he is aware are the results at issue in this case.

I'd imagine most cops know what marijuana smells like and use the field test to back up their correct observations. I imagine they do very little testing of other random things to see what causes a false positive. We need better statistical education for the legal profession.