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A complete international and domestic Travel Service for STUDENTS & STAFF operated in association with Jetset Tours Australia's Largest travel organisation Ground Floor Union Building University of Queensland Ph: 370 8056 370 9486 •~l\/«|IVIIIMll%fwn« ^ m DRUGNUViriG Queensland Leads The World Queensland's government Enzyme Multiplied Immuno Medical Officer Dr. D.G. Earlier this month the Government Medical Officerassa y Technique and Wilson stated during a caused some minor ripples in the establishment employed enzymes as drug seminar in Brisbane in the media when he announced at a seminar staged by the specific antibodies which first week of this month Queensland branch of the Australian Crime would produce reactions that Queensland should have which would isolate the drug Prevention Council that this state would be operating in the sample. If it is there. equipment for the chemical the world's first dope detection unit for "drug analysis of blood and urine He added that the par drive" motorists in July. ticular enzyme (which was samples of suspected "drug unidentified) was released in drivers" by July. What he did not say and what the press failed to uncover was that neither the GMO nor the Govern the U.S. on April 15 and What he failed to say was would probably arrive in that the crucial chemical ment Chemicals Laboratories has come into contact Queensland in May. that would enable the de with the equipment that is necessary for the That is, he was hoping tection of marijuana in the detection. to get the reagent in May. body fluids of the driver was CALVIN NOACK talked with the GMO and the He said the new test that not released in the United Dr. Wilson had been so States where it is manufac Director of the chemical labs and filed this report: positive about was "not the tured till April 15 and has complete answer". He hoped to get the test working but stressed the experimental nature of the new addition to the enzyme drug detec I SBt THAT/- tion technique. "There's no guarantee vouije mm that the test will work. We ARREST.' have to try it out to see its value. •Then the GMO has to decide whether the new tests can be used in the Queensland context." This attitude contrasted markedly with the one held by the GMO (Dr. WUson) who said that the method could detect cannabis in less than a millilitre of blood or urine taken from a volun teer who had smoked a single joint. Further in this rather ricketty innovation Wilson siad that there would not be any set levels of canna- not reached our shores yet. during the normal course of of drug detection was known binoid compounds present Wilson also neglected to pohce road patrol activity. as EMIT, and referred me to per measure of blood in the S^y that the new chemical After talking about the the Chemical Laboratories for manner that there is in was still in its experimental need to prevent drivers under further advice about the tech alcohol detection. (The stage. !Nor is anything known riie influence of drugs taking nical side of it. maxunum level of alcohol at this point in time about to the road and causing some In conversation with the present m the blood stream its efficacy in the prxtical times fatal accidents Wilson director Mr. John Yule I Queensland road situation said that the . "system" learned that EMIT stands for (continued page 60) TIME OFF April 19th, 1979 order informed the deputy THE RUSSIAN SOLUTION bail at Southport Magistrates speaker that during the TO DISSENT Court last Monday on a Mount Isans are the state's counting of the last ballot charge of pub lie drunkenness. number one nosepickers. A the honourable member for Last weekend's news He failed to appear. couple of local doctors there St. George was referred to as report concerning the current agrml that the incidence of 'Jockstrap Neil." enquiry by the Queensland nose picking was far higher After being ruled out of Police Department's Internal in the Isa, Australia's copper order followed by much Investigation Branch into capital, than anywhere dse giggling and smut the member police involvement m a stolen m the state. for Hunter persisted saying car racket, came as no The high incidence of that his remark was offensive surprise to one former Bris- nasal excavation by digital only because the honourable baneite. manipulation was attributed member "is sensitive to the Almost ten years ago this to the low humidity ui the slightest swing". person undertook a public city and unmediate area. According to Malcohn interest research study into Other reasons were the Mackerras' electoral car thefts and unearthed high sulphur content in the pendulum a two percent evidence incriminating air as a result of the MIM swing will put the seat in several members of the con mining activities and the NUTTY Labor's hands. stabulary. high pollen count from the However the mformation vegetation there. The U.S. underground LIES, LIES AND MORE was never released, because telephone hero California's LIES he was forced to leave the John Draper is really in it state followmg intimidation this time.