• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    10 months ago

    Just because it’s legal to have doesn’t mean it’s legal to consume while driving so I’m kinda conflicted on this one. Smelling weed alone shouldn’t be justification. Smelling burning weed, on the other hand…

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      10 months ago

      Cops claim they smell weed so they can search your car, and you cant argue they didnt have probable cause since they can’t record a smell.

      If i get pulled over and there is blood dripping from my trunk, that is valid probable cause, andbthe dashcam footage will capture it. Cops can just claim they smelled weed and search you and you are now Sol

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Cops use “smell of marijuana” and “smell of burning marijuana” literally everyday to profile people and give themselves excuses to pull over and search minorities.

    • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Its easier for illegal seizure when they can blanket cover their ass that there is some underlying thing that allowed them to be able to take whatever they wanted like when you’re randomly driving to go and purchase a vehicle from somebody and you happen to have all of that funds in cash but the police can seize it take it from you and you can’t even contest it took far later and some how its my responsibility to prove the money isn’t illicit

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      I don’t like even smelling burning weed being okay. Then I can drive my stoner friends around all the time and they can smoke in my car.