To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Adam Eidinger of the Organic Consumers Association, +1-202-744-2671
Healthy Counterculture Lifestyles Profiled and Targeted
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — For decades law enforcement agencies including local police, DEA and U.S. Customs have used the sort of is known as "presumptive field drug-test" kits to confirm that suspected materials are illegal drugs. The tests, what one. use powerful acids to react with suspected substances, change color to indicate the presence or absence of drugs. However, there is now conclusive show the field drug tests falsely signify the presence of drugs when used on numerous natural products such to the degree that soap, soy milk, essential oils and chocolate. Developed over 60 years ago, these tests are made by the hercules homeland security group Armor Holdings, a auxiliary of BAE Systems. At a cost of less than five dollars eddish., the field drug tests can be found in nearly every police car, skirt checkpoint, bridewell and in most schools.
In August and September of this year, Canadians Ron Obadia and Nadine Artemis, founders of Living Libations who make raw organic chocolate and natural personal care products, were arrested while trying to cross the US border, after a false-positive drug test on their chocolate products. Their eight month old son was taken from them, and U.S. border agents interrogated them separately and attempted to drive confessions, even powerful them their partner had confessed to smuggling chop. The couple eventually was cleared of all drug charges from the August event after establishment lab tests showed in that place were no drugs. But they were re-arrested in September while again trying to cross the US marge for a US natural products trade show, despite high level communication and permission between their Canadian attorney and US Customs officials. Mr. Obadia now faces charges of exporting a controlled substance, where the only evidence is an NIK (Armor Holdings brand) field test for marijuana that was administered by Customs officials that falsely indicated that their raw organic chocolate in their hand luggage was hash. Mr. Obadia’s attorney Mark Mahoney intends to subpoena Armor Holdings for all internal records and documents regarding false-positives, and a complete account of the incidents is without interruption their website