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partial_accumenreply
lemmy.world

"Watch your language young fella, its a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan I can order it for you.. have it in a couple of weeks"

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NegativeInf
lemmy.world

Can't wait for the day when smelling MJ isn't probable cause to ruin your car.

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ares35reply
kbin.social

pretty sure that's the case in the places where it has already been decriminalized or legalized outright; plus, it frees the resources and manpower that departments and agencies devote to the heinous crimes of weed possession and use.

the police, on the other hand, would lose easy targets to detain, abuse, harass, beat up, or shoot, all while hiding behind the flimsiest excuse and the easiest lie of 'i smelled weed', and enjoying the benefits of qualified immunity that comes from such claims.

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Doug Hollandreply
lemmy.world

Yup, just about the easiest targets of all. Your average cop would much, much rather arrest a stoner in dreadlocks than bother with genuine bad guys.

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jonnereply
infosec.pub

They won't be able to pull over random black people because 'they smelled marijuana', and obviously every one of those was on their way to commit a crime.

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halcyoncmdrreply
lemmy.world

No they can't use that excuse, because the cops are already faking fentanyl overdoses after "smelling" it and having panic attacks because they don't actually know shit about it and believe their own propaganda.

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Doug Hollandreply
lemmy.world

Ha — I attended a neighborhood meeting several months back where a policeman spoke, and described a bust where he'd "smelled fentanyl." It's amazing how much they don't know.

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lingh0ereply
lemmy.film

It's like the Battle of Wits scene in Princess Bride.

What you do not smell is fentanyl powder.

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tekktrixreply
kbin.social

Yes and so will personal property confiscations (cash, vehicles, etc) I.e. police budget bonuses

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Dizzy Devil Duckyreply
lemm.ee

I never really heard of police/crime incidents in my hometown involving weed before or after weed became legal in Washington. So I'd assume there really hasn't been a noticable change, which is still better than the fear mongering that crime will increase upon legalizing weed.

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Doug Hollandreply
lemmy.world

In illegal times and places, getting busted for weed is/was so common it only made the news when celebrities are/were caught. Can't much speak to the here and now, but I grew up in (suffice to say) an earlier decade of the illegal era, and dope busts were incredibly common.

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southsamurai
sh.itjust.works

can we be real?

Police training is basically a diploma mill. It's a joke in most places. You've got people that barely passed high school in some cases, going to a community college with next to zero entry standards, doing this training that often contains no real legal courses.

They don't know shit about the subject matter.

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ivanafterall
kbin.social

If you consider marijuana a drug, then yeah, drug use will go up, dumbasses, that's the point.

If you consider marijuana use criminal, then yeah criminal activity will increase, dumbasses, that's the point.

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dhtseany
lemmy.ml

Yeah I'll let y'all know the next time the FOP manages to influence my opinions on basically anything. Oh they said it's bad? Then it's most likely fine and they've got ulterior motives.

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ares35reply
kbin.social

well, they do have a vested interest on keeping at least the perceived crime rate high. otherwise they lose their budgets for cosplaying special forces, or even their jobs and the 'privileges' that go along with them.

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rayyyy
kbin.social

They are more concerned that easy drug busts and overtime will go down.

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