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

[Bwh1116]

alright so i got pulled over with a male marijuana plant in the car. is a male marijuana plant considered hemp? The police searched my car and found my pipes and shit, and gave me a fine for disorderly conduct and didn't even mention the plant on the ticket. they called my parents later though and said they would decide if they were going to make criminal charges.....but they did not know it was a male plant. any help or info would be great. this just happened like 3 hours ago.

Bwh1116 Reviewed by Bwh1116 on 12-28-2007. Help! What's hemp? Got pulled over with male plant in car alright so i got pulled over with a male marijuana plant in the car. is a male marijuana plant considered hemp? The police searched my car and found my pipes and shit, and gave me a fine for disorderly conduct and didn't even mention the plant on the ticket. they called my parents later though and said they would decide if they were going to make criminal charges.....but they did not know it was a male plant. any help or info would be great. this just happened like 3 hours ago. Rating: 5

[birdgirl73]

A fine for disorderly conduct? Because you were being disorderly, I gather? Did they mention possession/intent to cultivate/distribute or list paraphernalia on the ticket, too?

Little hint in order to let your threads live healthy ongoing lives here, particularly since this is now an adults-only site. I wish more people would learn this. Leave references to parents out if you possibly can. Nothing calls into question your maturity more quickly, even if you're past the age of majority.

[Bwh1116]

i'm 18, it's just that i guess they called because they weren't sure what they were gonna do. all the ticket said was paraphernalia and residue in the pipes

[birdgirl73]

You didn't answer my question about disorderly conduct. That will factor into whether criminal charges might be filed.

[Bwh1116]

oh sorry, no i wasn't actually, i was being polite and trying to help out with what i could to tell them where my pipes where when they were searching the car.

[Psycho4Bud]

If your an adult why did they call your parents?

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

[Bwh1116]

That's what i don't get, they said i was free to go after writing up the tickets, but when i got home i wasn't even going to say anything until my mom said the cops called, which was why i was like wtf?

[birdgirl73]

So what'd they base that disorderly conduct charge on? It sounds like you might have had a couple of officers who weren't familiar with the codes they were enforcing. I also wonder if that's why they had to tell you they weren't sure if they'd file criminal charges or not--because they weren't sure themselves if they had more charges to bring against you. Were you by any chance in a small town or in a rural area? Were they police officers, sheriff's deputies, constables, or highway patrolmen? I'm just curious about what level of officers they might have been and what the circumstances were.

Sounds like you simply got a misdemeanor citation and nothing more. They'll submit the report to their supervisors, who'll review it and help them decide what their next steps need to be if there are other charges to be brought against you. No one can tell you you won't receive further charges, but what I do know is that officers tell young people like you hat very same thing on every shift they work and they mostly do it to put a scare into you and nothing more. Most cops recognize that kids and cannabis are a routine, non-dangerous combination. They have bigger fish to fry and bigger cases to spend their time pursuing and going to court about. I suspect that unless they're the most small-town, provincial cops and this is a unique type of experience for them, you won't hear anything further. Can't guarantee that, though. No one can.

Why the question about hemp? Did they identify your plant as a hemp plant? Cannabis and hemp are the same thing, in case you didn't know. Hemp is the common name for cannabis sativa, but the stems and fibers that form hemp aren't the plant parts that people smoke and don't contain the THC content that the buds with trichomes do. So if you had a male plant, yes, you had yourself some hemp there in your planter.

You'll want to be extra careful between now and the time you pay that fine and that ticket case is closed. By that I mean don't carry any more paraphernalia or weed in the car with you and don't get stopped again or charged with anything. You don't need any additional trouble while this case is pending.

[domluvz2toke]

i think that might actually be illegal to call your parents about it lol. cause when i got caught the cop said i had to call my parents cuz some of the privacy laws we still actually have prevent them from distributing info. n the only reason i had to get in touch with them is cause i was in my pops truck lol they made me break my bong n my scale n my steam roller n rip my papers up and squish my roaches. what a mess that was and than they made me clean it up!!!

[birdgirl73]

No, they can call parents perfectly legally, but that's why P4B asked his question and why I urged you earlier to leave that part out on posts here. They generally don't call parents unless kids are under 18 and are wanting to let the parents know what their minor kids are up to.

Not sure what privacy laws you're referring to, Domluvz. If you can find me those laws relating to police encounters with minor teens or adult children still living at home with parents, I'd like to see them. You'll have a lot easier time finding information about the concept of attorney-client privilege or about medical privacy. If you're charged with a crime or a misdemeanor by public servants, that's public information, whether you want it to be or not.