Help! What's hemp? Got pulled over with male plant in car

birdgirl, thanks so much for all the input.....they were i believe just county police officers... i was originally pulled over for speeding while driving my brother to his basketball game, while transporting this plant. As i was getting pulled over i threw a jacket over the plant. The officer came to my window said i was speeding....gave him my license and registration....he then went back to his car. another officer arrived, walked up shined their flash lights in, saw part of the plant i guess and asked to roll the window down. he uncovered the jacket hiding the plant....i was then taken out of the car, handcuffed, frisked, and placed in the back of the squad car as they searched my car. Then two more squad cars rolled up, totaling 4. (this is somewhat of a small town by the way) They found 1 big grinder, 1 small grinder, 2 pipes, a dugout, and a hookah(not used for marijuana with the tobacco jars in the case) they said since i was legally an adult he did not have to call my parents. in the squad car after while the officer was filling out the ticket for disorderly conduct, he said now that the business is over i have a personal question. i said sure, and he said "that for my own personal interest how long i have you been growing the plant"..... so i told him about a month of vegging, then i switched to 12/12 light cycle about a week ago. he followed that by saying, "it looks really nice" he also said by smelling the big grinder he could tell that i was smoking really good stuff. and also that he was young before but the most he carried around was wraps or a pipe at most. if it goes to court, could this be used against him? also, the reason i was wondering about the hemp plant is because if they decided to file criminal charges, could it end up still being just the fine rather than a misdemeanor, because it was male and therefore not smokable?

growing a plant is illegal. wether its a male or a female dont matter in the eyes of the law. hemp and marijuana are both illegal in the US. so dont matter wether you want to claim it as hemp or pot. also since you had pipes papers and a steam roller on you they would provably discredit your hemp defense. look up the laws in the US they dont say marijuana or hemp but state cannabis in any form or part is illegal( not the exact wording but close)

also male plants are smokable just not desirable. they do contain thc they will get you high. they just aint as tasty, or produce as much as females.

if you are over the age of consent and you were drivin your dads truck then that is the reason that your parents were informed. not because of the charges on you but because it involved another persons vehicle.

now i have a couple questions
1) why are you keeping a male plant?
2) why are you riding around with all this stuff taking your little bro to his basketball game? you do realize that you could have been charged with corrupton of a minor beause of this?

i was actually getting rid of the plant.....it was only in the bloom cycle for about a week.....so it was about a foot tall, and it had the male pre flowers, so it was not technically fully developed.

So what was thier probable cause to pull you in the first place?

speeding

So you've got a plant, and plenty of paraphernalia on you and you speed? Don't you think that would be ill advised?

i wasn't even aware i was speeding, because near where i live there aren't many police officers.

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Originally Posted by Bwh1116

i wasn't even aware i was speeding, because near where i live there aren't many police officers.

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lol, that made no sence at all.

haha, yea you're right, i meant to say besides. but yea, i didn't even know i was driving fast until i noticed what i thought was a cop car following me(it was night so wasn't sure).

Bwh, I haven't had time to further respond, but frankly, your story doesn't add up. Every time you've told it, some detail is different, including the gender of the plant, which you originally said was male but which in a subsequent thread you said had a bloom cycle. I assume your more thorough explanation in post #11 above was the closest to the true sequence of events, but I can't be sure because the story has changed with every retelling.

That cop was asking you the questions "for his own personal interest" because he was trying to find out the scale of your cultivation, and he was pretending to be very friendly and conversational so you'd open up and incriminate yourself. You gave him everything he wanted, and it's no wonder they'll need to decide what further charges to file. I think you should prepare your folks at home for the fact that you may need an attorney and go ahead and come clean with the whole story to them because, now that I've read your more complete explanation, I suspect you could easily receive further charges. Don't answer any more questions, if they're asked of you, without an attorney.

You need to watch the video below several times and become very familiar with its content. And you sure as heck need not to drive with paraphernalia or weed ever again. We have a member here who likes to come on most weed and driving-related threads and berate young people for what he always terms stupidity for having made that mistake. I think it's always better to teach than to berate, so please learn from this situation and make better choices next time.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMjMPlXzdA[/YOUTUBE]

After you've watched that video at least three times, you'll want to read and learn the information at the link below till you know it all like the back of your hand. Read it over and over and take the quiz till you score 100% consistently.
Just Say 'No' to Police Searches | FlexYourRights.org

Finally, in answer to your question about using what the cop said about his own pot history against him in court, no, you cannot. For several reasons. You won't be the prosecutor, for one thing. If he did have youthful drug use in his past, that's not the legal issue at hand. It's far more likely that he said what he said--be aware that he's allowed to lie to you if it helps him obtain more evidence or information about a crime, and no, that's not entrapment--to cozy up to you, make you think he was a sympathetic former-stoner pal, and encourage you to open up and talk (and incriminate yourself).

I'll say one thing for you. You made those officers' jobs very easy for them. I wish you good luck with whatever comes out of this. You're going to need it.