smelling pot

[Strider]

Saysha sez:

There IS a plant out there that does smell like fresh cut (not smoke) bud! I’ve smelled it too, in the car, out walking etc. but after investigating thoroughly, found nada. Usually in the spring, like it’s a stage of development of a common plant.

I believe I may know what plant you are talking about. A while ago my mom decided she did not want a lawn in front of our house anymore so she decided to put a bunch of plants and trees and large rocks out there instead. Looks really cool. But in the winter and spring there is a certain plant that gives off a certain odor some of you might recognise. The plant is called “Society Garlic” and my friends and I think it smells almost exactly like weed. Like Saysha said, it does not smell like the smoke, but rather smells like I have a weed plant growing in my front yard. Off teh top of my head I can not give a detailed description of the plant but IIRC it has small stems with purple flowers on it when it blooms. I think these flowers are what smells.

Here’s a funny little story to go along with this. My brother is a Police Officer and so has a lot of friends that are POs and they come by the house often. The first time a bunch of them came over they smelled the Society Garlic and they thought we had a weed plantation in our front yard. It was kind funny explaining that to them.

-N

[vanilla]

This in today’s paper:
Under a new ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court, if you happen to be in the company of someone who is smoking-even if you don’t Know them and didn’t partake yourself-police can search you and your car.
The courts action came just 2 months after the Ohio Department of Public Safety decided that people who buy a legal substance (beer) must sign away some of their rights inorder to buy five or more kegs at one time.
The policy calls for beer distributors to fax the statement to the public Safety Dept. which then notifies police about the date, time and location of the upcoming event.
Police can search the party, unannounced, and look for underage drinkers.

In the last decade or so, technology imposed new threats by giving law enforcement new tools, such as Carnivore, the software used by the FBI.
When placed at an Internet service provider, CArnivore allows police to scan all e-mail for messages associated with the target of a criminal probe.

[Myron_Van_Horowitzski]

We were camping a couple of weeks ago and started smelling something familiar (well, sorta familiar; it’s been a while). Turned out to be from a campfire across the way. (They weren’t smoking anything I could see)

Later, we put some wood on our own fire that smelled “that” way. It was quaking aspen (what we call “popple” up here) and it was slightly green.

Regarding the OP (“How can you prove they didn’t”) I suppose you can prove it by them not finding anything.

As Myron opens another can o’ worms…

[CnoteChris]

I’m coming back way late here, but it seems important to me to point out something that’s been making the news around here lately.

Don’t get on me for not following the previous posts, because I haven’t read them yet. I will when I post.

Allright then.

To continue on my intial rant in response to the O.P… In my fine dual-city of Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN., there has apparently been a major public safety issue with people jay-walking.

HUGE PROBLEM!

Minneapolis decides the only way to tackle this public safety issue is to strengthen and re-inforce the crosswalk laws. Basically, as far as I can tell- No one yet has been able to explain it clearly to the public yet, whenever you spot someone crossing the street, you need to stop your car and wait for them to cross.

Great idea!! Except… They’ve decided that people can’t quite figure out when people have crossed the path of the car and need to stop until each and every pedestrian has cleared the cross-walk area. Huh? If a person in a car is turing right, they, under this new inforcement policy, could never move. Your stuck until the entire intersection is clear to move.

Good move Minneapolis!!!

But, it gets even better!!

St. Paul has decided they’re not going along with Minneapolis’ idea. They’ve decided to ticket the jay-walker instead. They now have cops standing at cross-walks, and in spots on the side of the street, waiting for people to cross and then ticket them. I saw a news report where they showed a woman crossing the street at a crosswalk, a cop is patiently waiting for her to get to the other side. Once she made it, the cop pointed out that she crossed when the light said, “DO NOT WALK”.

She could face a $1,000.00 fine and 90 days in jail.

No lie, totally true. Pretty fucking scary.

[neutron_star]

Sheesh. Is this country turning into Singapore or what? Good thing the lady wasn’t chewing gum or spitting on the sidewalk when she was busted.

[waterj2]

Here in Massachusetts (OK, well, I’m in New York at the moment, but I live in Mass.), there is a limit of one keg per car per customer.

I swear I would end up in jail within seven minutes of being in St. Paul. In Boston, there is a $1 fine for jaywalking that is never enforced. People just run across streets whenever and wherever they think they can get way with it. Plus pedestrians always have the right of way, even while jaywalking.

[Donovan]

as a little addendum to this conversation, I’d like to add the most disturbing thing I’ve seen come out of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court this year:
They upheld a conviction on a cocaine bust. The cocaine was found in an underwear drawer of the defendant after cops forced their way into the apartment of the defendant because ‘they smelled pot’…
The fucked up part of this story is that the cops tore apart the place and found cocaine, but no pot was found.
The warrantless search was deemed legal because the smell of pot was ‘probable cause’.

[Flymaster]

*Originally posted by waterj2 *
**Here in Massachusetts (OK, well, I’m in New York at the moment, but I live in Mass.), there is a limit of one keg per car per customer.

I swear I would end up in jail within seven minutes of being in St. Paul. In Boston, there is a $1 fine for jaywalking that is never enforced. People just run across streets whenever and wherever they think they can get way with it. Plus pedestrians always have the right of way, even while jaywalking. **

Waterj: Ever see the guy jogging across the street in front of moving cars in front of the Union? That’s me

But seriously…there’s a fine for Jaywalking in Boston? I never knew that. Hell, I do it all the time. The cars’ll stop. And if they don’t, they should have.

[capacitor]

Whip out the Lysol® to eliminate that fresh car/bud smell if you have a problem. BTW, smoking a blunt and driving is still illegal.

[zenith]

I suspect that the smell of Lysol would give them reason to be suspicious and they would still search your car. My daughter had an open bottle of Old Spice in her car when she was stopped and they breathalized her because of the smell.