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Santos and Yousefi said the sticks will be cheap and comparable to the price of regular straws and stir sticks, but they're still searching for the capital to successfully commercialize the idea.

UBC researchers have developed a seemingly ordinary stir stick capable of detecting common drink-spiking drugs potentially ...

SO WE’VE GOT WHAT IS THIS? STYROFOAM RIGHT HERE. STYROFOAM. AND THESE ARE JUST STRAW LIKE THIS. YOU KNOW, THE STIR STRAW. OH, YEAH. THIS. OKAY. WOODEN ONES. AND I JUST GLUED A FEW TOGETHER.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia say they're gearing up to start "real-world testing" of a stir stick that can detect if a drink has been spiked with drugs.