What do you guys and gals think.

Seems like a bad idea, to me.

If a police officer pulls you over and doesn't have probable cause to search, they may call in a police dog. If you've rubbed your car with weed, the police dog will instantly signal a "hit", that there is marijuana in your car. Which gives a police officer the right to search your car.

You don't want a police dog to smell weed on your car.

 

I don't understand the point then.

If you're giving consent, then you're giving the police the right to search your car anyway. They don't use a dog in the search, they use a dog when you refuse a search to sniff out any drugs that may be in the car. If the dog signals that it smells drugs in the car, the police do a search.

If you're going to consent to a search anyway, they won't need the dog and you just have to hope that your hiding spot is good enough.

This is a very pointless idea.

 

What a dumb idea. If you were pulled over even if you weren't smoking weed the cop could smell it. And if the cop smelled it and you WERE smoking weed you would be busted.

 

No. They're going to search the car themselves to figure out what you might have. If you refuse a search, they'll use a police dog around the outside of the vehicle to figure out whether you have drugs in the car. If the dog signals that you do, that gives the police officers the right to search your car for those drugs.

Your idea will accomplish nothing other than always allowing the drug dog to signal that there are drugs in the car so that the police can search it.

 

You can refuse...

Not all cops make the dog "false alert", and often times there isn't a K-9 unit even close enough to respond. They can only detain you for a "reasonable" amount of time.

I've had a cop threaten to call in a K-9 unit before because of refusing a search. He didn't, it was just a bluff to get us to consent. And when we still didn't consent, he let us go without any further issues.

 

Lots of stoners give consent even when they have weed in the car because they're intimidated into it or too stoned to respond otherwise or just feel like they have their stash hidden well enough. A cop isn't going to assume you don't have anything just because you consented to a search.

Maybe yours really is hidden well enough, I hope so.

 

Best way is just to not keep shit on you while you're driving. Obviously some of us have to do it sometimes, in which case, I stick by refusing a search.

They can't search without probable cause. I mean, they can, but if they don't have probable cause at the time then you can fight it in court.

That's why covering your car in weed smell is a bad idea, it just gives them probable cause to search if they call in a drug dog.

I read a post online a while back where someone said that their go-to line about not consenting a search was something like "a lot of men and women died for my rights, and I don't intend to give them up".

I think that's a good way to confront it, or else just the typical "I'm in a hurry".
"No, I'm not going to consent to any search because I'm about to shit my pants and I need to get home".

I would never just outright consent to a search though, whether I have weed on me or not. It's my right to not be searched unless they have probable cause.

 

Do you really think you can eat 7 grams of dry plant matter in the time between seeing flashing lights in your mirror and a cop walking up to your door?

I sure as hell couldn't.