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I had to share this because I'm still blown and frankly kind of confused. Last night my friend and I were smoking in this little cul-de-sac as we normally do. I have an eye for cops because I'm an anxious person and they have pretty distinguishable lights. So I notice in my rearview a black charger drive by and then I see them hit the brakes and I start panicking. For context, we had literally just packed a new bowl so the overhead light in the car was on and I'm sure he could see and probably smell the smoke that was accumulating. My friend's like fuck it you should dip so I pull away, he blows out the bowl, and as I get to the stop sign the cop pulls up and stops and my friend tells me to turn right so I'm driving past him the other direction. I have a taillight out and I know that gives them the right to pull me over so I was trying to avoid him seeing it. But of course as I'm trying to make my escape I see him make a quick U-turn and I instantly know I'm fucked. I'm yelling at my friend to throw it out the window or something (because I successfully have done that before) but honestly it was a lot of weed and he was close behind us so I assume he would've seen and we would have had more problems.
He turns on his lights and my heart sinks. I pull over and I'm going through a thousand different outcomes in my head of what could happen while he walks up to my door. He leans over with a flashlight and asks "Did you know your tailight was out?" I nod and give him my license and I can't find my registration but he doesn't mind he just goes back to run my license. He didn't say anything about the smell but I can hear him sniffing because it's obviously pretty strong. A different set of officers pull me and my friend out of the car and pat us down. They begin searching my car without asking. Maybe the smell was probable cause enough lol. One of the officers asks "Have you been smoking marijuana tonight?" and we both reluctantly nod. I see them rummaging through my car and my heart drops when they lift up the baggie with a little under an ounce of weed in it. They also go through my bag with both my bowls and my grinder inside. They finally finish searching and walk over to us. I'm expecting the absolute worst at this point but to my suprise they hand me my license back and tell me I can go back to my car. It took me a second to comprehend what was going on, but then I realize they are just letting us go scott-free. No ticket, no citation, no nothing. I'm in shock. And then we are even more shocked when we look in the backseat and see all the weed plus the bowls and grinder all sitting in the backseat where we left them. I live in an illegal state. WTF happened?! Why was I allowed to keep it without a single lecture or anything?
TLDR: I got pulled over and searched, they found just under an ounce and let me keep it.
Edit: I got my tailight fixed today, the morning after I got pulled over. My tailight had gone out that same day but it was too late to go to the shop unfortunately.
Bruh go play fortnite or something why you got your panties in a twist over my momentous occasion?
That's what we assumed. There was just very little acknowledgement of the weed whatsoever, I guess I anticipated them at least confiscating the goods!
Georgia. It's very mixed here because there's certain regions that are decriminalized but I'm in a county that's renowned for being quite strict with their policies.
Nah fr, either way I'm feeling blessed asf 🙏🏻
I mean clearly I wasn't very high at all if he shined a light in my eyes and saw my functioning and didn't seem worried at all about impairment. Also didn't seem smart to lie about smoking when it was pretty damn obvious, I've watched enough Live PD to know that creates more problems. It was like 6 of them on scene so I feel like at least one of them would have said something if they thought I was too intoxicated to drive. And I'm not trying to excuse anything, but I guess it is a little frustrating that you can have a few drinks and still be okay to drive in the eyes of the law, but 1 bowl or a joint and I'm not? Idk doesn't seem very fair to me when alcohol is much more intoxicating imo.
As soon as they physically removed me from the car I realized the jig was up, because the smell was so obvious. But now that I look back, they should've told me why they were even removing me from the car because a normal traffic stop wouldn't really require me getting out. But I guess I'm not really in a place to question the legality since he let me off with a felony amount of weed.
Correct. I actually didn't even see the initial officer who pulled me over until the very end of the stop, my assumption would be he was training. There was never any mention of any weed smell until we were already in front of the squad car being patted down. The cops moved in and started searching I never once gave consent nor was I asked at all. He started interrogating about where we were going and whatnot and only asked "Have you been smoking marijuana?" once and that was that. Didn't even acknowledge what they found or tell me to leave it at home next time. Was a perplexing situation all around. And my bad for the paragraph length I tend to ramble as you can see lol.
No, you actually didn't sound condescending at all. Your response was a breath of fresh air in comparison to some of the comments I've recieved lol, but I understand what everyone is saying. This might sound ignorant but I truly didn't realize that they could even test for DUI for weed. I definitely understand the ramifications now though and will act accordingly.
Trust me this was definitely the wake up call I needed. I never even usually have that much on me but I had just picked up :( I'm just grateful for the cops that decided they didn't wanna fuck up my life that night.
Black ffs, you people act so entitled to information. Shit's supposed to be anonymous I'm not gonna give you my entire description😭😭
Georgia. I had replied earlier on to someone but reddit hid it for some odd reason.
Yes, I heard from those who I've told the story to that having scales or guns would've absolutely fucked me. I guess that would deem me a dealer in their eyes
Lmao reddit formatted it that way once I posted but I fixed it, thanks for the english lesson
I literally replied to someone that neither my friend nor i are white lmao y'all love jumping to conclusions
Jfc the cul-da sac is in my neighborhood. I am not just gallavanting through the streets and I know my limits.
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damn wtf 10 pounds?! Cali is a diff breed I swear, my life would be over if I did that here😭