{"id":94789,"date":"2019-08-14T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T21:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/this-startup-created-a-marijuana-breathalyzer"},"modified":"2019-08-14T14:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T21:02:25","slug":"this-startup-created-a-marijuana-breathalyzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/this-startup-created-a-marijuana-breathalyzer","title":{"rendered":"This Startup Created a Marijuana Breathalyzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-startup-created-a-marijuana-breathalyzer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If a police officer suspects you\u2019ve had too much to drink before getting behind the wheel of your car, they can use a breathalyzer to estimate your blood alcohol level on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>But if a cop thinks you\u2019re driving stoned, they currently don\u2019t have any evidence-based way to immediately confirm their suspicions \u2014 they typically have to rely on subjective roadside sobriety tests.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, Canadian startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sannteklabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SannTek Labs<\/a> says it\u2019s developed a marijuana breathalyzer \u2014 and it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/08\/13\/y-combinator-bets-on-a-startup-building-a-weed-breathalyzer-for-cops\/\">caught the eye<\/a> of top startup accelerator Y Combinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a police officer suspects you\u2019ve had too much to drink before getting behind the wheel of your car, they can use a breathalyzer to estimate your blood alcohol level on the spot. But if a cop thinks you\u2019re driving stoned, they currently don\u2019t have any evidence-based way to immediately confirm their suspicions \u2014 they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}