My friend and I having been arguing about if having a scale in your car can result in you getting arrested. I don't think you can unless you have weed on you.
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My friend and I having been arguing about if having a scale in your car can result in you getting arrested. I don't think you can unless you have weed on you.
Where im from you can because its drug paraphernalia.
I dunno if you have to have weed with you or not.
If you have a legitimate reason for carrying a scale in your vehicle, its not a problem. I carry a scale in my truck for weighing refrigerant cans.
If your just cruising around with a triple beam balance on the dash, thats kinda stoopid because your *ADVERTISING* to the world that something isn't quite right.
Do yourself a favor and keep all of the weed and paraphenalia out of the car. Don't put yourself in a position where somebody has to *DO* something about it.
If nothing else, I'm sure that the scale will be plenty enough reasonable cause to search your car (whether you want him or her to or not). If they find as much as a seed, your car gets impounded and could get taken away.
I don't see how a scale could be incriminating since there are now laws prohibiting possession of scales.
But to be on the safe side, if you don't absolutely need them at the place you're going, take 'em inside.
Thanks for the help everyone. I don't actually ever take it out of my house for those reasons. My friend was the one who started this post and so far it looks like I was right haha. I mean...what does an 18 year old need a scale in his car for?
my friend got busted with one, but he had quite a bit of other things on him, but he told me that its automatically intent to sell or whatever.But if you made enough of a case and it was clean I really can't imagine that you'd get in trouble.Couldn't you just say that your friend is a jeweler or something?
Not unless the scale is set and calibrated in TROY OUNCES.Quote:
Originally Posted by The51stAgent
That is the unit of measure for precious metals.
Alright here it is, if a cop finds a scale with keefe or residue ANYWHERE on it! Then it is an immedeate Felony!! U do not wanna f around with it, CLEAN IT VERY WELL before going anywhere and u dont need a reason for having one, just ask for an attorney, never Lie, but u dont EVER have to answer a cops tricky question!
Being as I work at a law office, you CAN NOT be arrested for carrying POSTAL scales in your car, it only gives the cops probable cause to search. Digital Scales however will give you a 1 way trip to jail.
well hopefully if you're carrying scales in your car they're going to be hidden...it's called the plain-sight rule...they can't see anything, they don't have probable cause...
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Originally Posted by DGo420
Weed and paraphinalia(sp?) and vehicles *DO NOT MIX*. Getting caught with either in your car will most probably get your car impounded an you a trip to jail. If you have a scale and *ANY* amount of weed willo most probably get you busted for "Posession for sale" that in most places is a FELONY.
Don't put yourself in a position where somebody has to *DO* something about it in the first place. What you do in the privacy of *YOUR* own home, is nobody else's business. Anything you do in public is subject to scruteny.
I don't think you can get arrested just for having some scales (or else they wouldn't be legal to sell) but it is definitely an easy way of getting your car thoroughly searched.
You can get arrested even if you are innocent. Any questions?
As long as you clean your scale before taking it anywhere it won't be a problem. Scales are not only used for drugs and you never have to tell a cop why you have a scale as it doesn't really matter. Scales are perfectly legal as long as they're clean. Although if you get searched and they find a scale, they are going to search the rest of the vehicle like madmen if you allow them.
Here's a question: How?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepper
I don't even own any scales, digital or otherwise. But you're telling me that if I were to buy some digital scales, even if it were still in the box, that I could be arrested for carrying paraphernalia? How is it then that I can buy bongs and glass pipes from pro-cannabis events, and even wave them around in front of the police, yet I can't be touched because of the TOBACCO pipe that I'm carrying around? They know damn well I won't be putting tobacco in it, but they have no power to stop me from doing something I haven't even done yet. The same principle would apply to scales. I'd be using them to weigh tobacco. (Yeah, right.) But still, who are they to tell me I'm lying... especially in light of the fact that I have NO illegal substances on me?
Having scales in the commission of a crime, like dealing, would bring separate paraphernalia charges... but, unless you've already been charged with something, I don't see a person ever being arrested JUST for carrying around clean scales. Maybe hassled to no end, but still free to leave at the end of it all.