Tuesday, October 14, 2014
If you want to know what some cops really think of legit medical marijuana users, check out the California Narcotic Officers Association’s latest newsletter.
Americans for Safe Access did, and what they found is pretty astonishing.
The publication basically coaches cops how to trick legal patients into cooperating, rolling over and consenting to searches.
“You are more than likely to get cooperation from qualified patients if you use soft words,” the association says. “These people will normally talk to you.”
It gets worse.
The drug-cop article suggests threatening suspects with the fact that they could lose their jobs for being high at work:
Are they using before work, on their lunch break? What do they do for a living? Per 11362.785, an employer may terminate an employee who tests positive for marijuana.
It gets even worse still.
The association also appears to argue that if a subject discloses that they are legit medical cannabis patients, that might even be enough to search a vehicle or at least try to lead the person to consent.
Remember, cops in California have never been big fans of medical marijuana. The California Police Chiefs Association was behind a bill, blocked in the state legislature, that wanted to dictate what kind of doctors could recommend marijuana. The proposal also once sought to outlaw concentrates.
The more you know.
