Michigan Just Legalized Roadside Drug Tests—Is This A Good Thing?

A newly implemented law in Michigan allows State Police to ask to swab drivers' mouths to determine if they've been using drugs.

Officers who are "trained as drug recognition experts" collect oral fluid if they suspected a driver is impaired. Police use a portable device designed to detect if a driver has certain drugs in his or her system — including marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin, opiates and cocaine. 

But could this law just be another way for police--whom critics are calling to defund and outright abolish--to unlawfully profile Black drivers? Is this new law an overreach of state powers that grants police further breadth to detain and arrest