Burnt marijuana smell not proof of drug: Canadian court says

[smok3y]

"How can you say you're in possession of something that doesn't exist"

Just another faggot ass cop lookin for some brownie points, but ended up with egg on his face..lol

smok3y Reviewed by smok3y on 02-22-2008. Burnt marijuana smell not proof of drug: Canadian court says A Saskatchewan appeal's court upheld a decision that the smell of burnt marijuana is not evidence of illegal drug possession since by definition the proof has gone up in smoke. Burnt marijuana smell not proof of drug: Canadian court says OTTAWA (AFP) - A Saskatchewan appeal's court upheld a decision that the smell of burnt marijuana is not evidence of illegal drug possession since by definition the proof has gone up in smoke, it said Wednesday. "The smell of burnt marijuana does Rating: 5

[Psycho4Bud]

Reminds me of Dudley Do-Right of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show.

Paul Lynde hammed it up on an episode of the "60's TV comedy show F Troop as Sergeant Ramsden RCMP, the "Singing Mountie", saying "We always get our man!". I have both seasons of that show on DVD's.

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Have a good one!:jointsmile:

[dragonrider]

If these guys are the Mounties, who are the Mounters?

[zebracakes]

I seen this episode of south park where the mounties couldnt ride horses. So they rode sheep.
Imagine if you got a phone call or seen someone? "Yes, I am a mounty mounted on a sheep"

[Markass]

Well, it works in the favor of all of us pot smokers, so yea! But if you think about it, it's totally stupid. Of course smelling pot smoke is grounds for believing there is pot present. It's a lawyerly trick, and I'm amazed the court went for it. It might have worked this time, but don't count on using it in the future for your own defense, and don't try it with soemone with any amount of common sense, like your mama.

Yeah, I bet that's what all sorts of cops are thinking once they smell it, and then don't find anything after initiating a search.

[dragonrider]

Yeah, I bet that's what all sorts of cops are thinking once they smell it, and then don't find anything after initiating a search.

Do you think that happens very often?

Look, I don't want to see anyone get busted for weed. I think it should be legal across the board. But it is illegal, so it's fair game for cops to go after it. I am also all for making police keep within their strct legal limits when it coms to search and siezure. But my main objection to this is that it is a stupid defense that goes completely against common sense.

The whole idea that smelling pot smoke doesn't prove that there is any more pot is asinine. Probable cause doesn't require proof --- probable cause relies on more of a common sense approach and is what allows police to go and find the proof. It seems like common sense to me that if you smell pot smoke, then there was pot there recently, and there might still be pot there. The idea that the smoke indicates they smoked it all and there is nothing left is moronic.

This whole thing is going to prove moot anyway. All the cop had to do was to say he smelled pot instead of pot smoke ,and the defense goes right out the window. Did you smell pot or pot smoke? My training doesn't distinguish --- I smelled a smell that I have been trained indicates pot, so I searched and found pot.

The other approach to defeating this would be to bring a canine unit that actually could smell the weed, and not just the smoke.

The case in this article had to do with weed, so we all root for the pot smoker. But I think it is alarming to think that these kinds of restrictions that go against common sense might be applied in other kinds of cases where the stakes are a lot higher and most of us would want the guy to be caught. We don't necessarily want the murderers, rapists, and thieves getting away on these kinds of technicalities.

[8182KSKUSH]

We don't necessarily want the murderers, rapists, and thieves getting away on these kinds of technicalities.

Yeah don't worry, luckily this happened in Canada, and I think that says all that needs to be said!

[Psycho4Bud]

Yeah, I bet that's what all sorts of cops are thinking once they smell it, and then don't find anything after initiating a search.

In the states they'd just bring in the p.s.p.'s (pot smellin' puppies).

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Alright, I gotta clear up two stupid Canadian stereotypes.


1. Mounties don't wear those stupid red uniforms, they are ceremonial. Our cops look pretty much like American cops.

2. We don't say "aboot". We say about! Nor do we have that stupid-ass accent American's portray us as having, that's a very limited dialect from a small region of the Maritimes.

3. Our beer is better.

[Reefer Rogue]

Cananda has marijuana man

This case is groundbreaking imo, think how many people will quote it and perhaps get their evidence thrown out in court due to this. Well, hopefully.