This video clip was made when a punk rocker in California created a lather, recently. He was pulled over for "driving while weird", and subsequently arrested for possession of a soap bottle full of what police identified as GHB, or the "Date Rape Drug".
The company that made the soap, Dr. Bronners, came to the punker's rescue and did a little research. What came out in the wash is fascinating. Turns out any soap that is TRULY soap, and not detergent, will show a false positive when tested for GHB using the cheap and non-standardized field tests used by police nationwide. And any soap that has detergent (synthetic soap) will not show a positive.
So, this clip is great for two reasons: we have a small organic company and counterculture oddball teaming up to take on the police and the cheap tests they use to arrest and possibly convict countless people, and we have cheap drug tests that can be used to tell if a soap is really a soap. We also get to learn another way we can reduce our dependence on petroleum! At least they work for something!
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