This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on October 8, 2013.
Listen to this medical marijuana patient as he is pulled over by a Michigan State Police patrol officer.
What do you think about the traffic stop?
This article was originally published on the Marijuana Patients Organization site on October 8, 2013.
Listen to this medical marijuana patient as he is pulled over by a Michigan State Police patrol officer.
What do you think about the traffic stop?
Think that the cop was right about the search but am not really sure. He was polite if he was not in the right and the driver was kind of rude and I would not have been that forward with a cop if I was holding any or not.
I understand probable cause, but once it has been established that the driver is a legal medical marijuana patient, that probable cause goes out the window just from the smell of it, unless that cop thinks the driver is intoxicated at the time. It sounded like the cop was just going to make sure the driver didn’t have more than he was legally allowed to be carrying. I don’t see the harm in that if an officer smells marijuana in the car of the person that was pulled over. It’s funny how many people want marijuana treated like alcohol, but yet when they’re pulled over and a cop smells it, they don’t want to take a sobriety test or have the car searched.
Thats messed up he had no right to search his car only if he looked like he was driving stoned. If he only smells it than he cant search the car.