Can you get arrested for having a scale in your car?

[Mississippi Steve]

yea dude you'd be screwed, best way to go is leave it at home, or find a really good spot in your car where no one would ever look, secret compartment?

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.

[akimbo1013]

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.

[Pepper]

You can get arrested even if you are innocent. Any questions?

[swanman8907]

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.

[Mr. Clandestine]

You can get arrested even if you are innocent. Any questions?

Here's a question: How?

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.