Police to test you for drugs before you can enter a bar!

The Itemiser, drug tester!

Yesterday the BBC News website reported that Pub-goers to be tested for drugs.

Pub-goers in Aberdeen are facing a drugs test before entering bars as part of a crackdown by Grampian Police.

Officers in the force will be the first in Scotland to use an Itemiser - a device which can detect traces of drugs from hand swabs in a matter of seconds.

The test is voluntary, but customers will be refused entry if they do not take part. They could be searched and even arrested if traces are found.

The device was trialled by the police force in the area earlier this year.

The Itemiser allows police officers or door staff to swab customers hands as they enter a pub or club. It can tell almost instantly if drugs are present - including cocaine, cannabis, heroin and ecstasy.

Some Ecstasy Pills!

The device can show three possible results: green, amber or red.

Customers who get a green reading are allowed entry to the pub, those who get amber are given a drug information pack and those who get red could be searched by police. If drugs are found on that person they could be arrested and a report could be sent to the procurator fiscal.

Police said the device deters unwanted drug dealers.

Some Cocaine
Some Lines of Cocaine!

OK, We understand the concept of "detering unwanted drug dealers", but what about the wanted drug dealers.

Now we here at NTS are not saying that drugs are good, or bad, but we do believe in freedom. And Aberdeen is not that far away from Sterling, where Willian Wallace defeated the English, then he got tortured to death, but shouted FREEDOM before he died. In the movie at least.

We have also been to Aberdeen, it is a cold and normally wet town on the East coast of Scotland, some of the city is beautiful, and some of it is depressed, like most big towns/cities it has it's rich and it has it's poor areas.

Now people are not allowed to smoke in bars, they have to go outside for a cigarette, which sucks when it's cold or raining, which it does quite a lot in Scotland. (We used to live there).

In our experience of bars and clubs, which is extensive, most allow certian "dealers" in, that way they can control the quality of drugs taken by their customers. There is nothing worse than a drug addict dying on the premises, trust us, we know. You spend hours explaining why you let drug dealers into your club, and then the police raid you every week or so, which is bad for business.

People will always take drugs in clubs, it's a fact.

They say that the test is voluntary,but if you refuse the test, will the police start watching you, to see if you are a drug dealer or taker. And how long before it becomes compulsary?

Bar owners in the UK are already struggling, as the amount of beer sold has fallen dramaticaly in the last few months. Thanks to the global economy.

And it will not stay in Aberdeen, soon it will be world wide drugs test outside bars, clubs and soon restaurants, cafe's, libraries, your place of work, then soon every building you ever enter will test you for drugs.

Soon it will be 1984, for real.

Britian already has more CCTV cameras per person than anywhere in the world, so big brother is really watching you, listening to you and now testing you for drugs, and we are pretty sure that the test takes a sample of your DNA for goverment records.

We are moving to another planet!

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