re: Gwinnett County, GA Will No Longer Go After People For Small Amounts Of Pot

City of Denton did the same thing due to budget shortages and no funding for testing.

And drug addicts rejoice.

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They should tell that to the Williamson county deputies...those motherfrickers bust people for a seed on the floorboard.

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Yeah, there are a few municipalities that will continue to “fight the good fight” but I’m sure they’ll come around one day.

They’re just banging their heads into a brick wall from a law enforcement perspective by making arrests that can’t be successfully prosecuted. It’s dumb and I’m glad Gwinnett has realized that.

Same thing is happening in Florida. Gainesville has dropped all of their marijuana cases. Florida doesn't have any in state labs that can distinguish between hemp and marijuana and the cost to do out of state testing for every marijuana arrest is too prohibitive. Hemp is also causing Florida to change how it conducts probable cause vehicle searches. The smell of marijuana alone is no longer considered probable cause because there is no difference between the smell of burning marijuana and hemp. So a cop can't base a search solely on scent. It is affecting drug dogs too for all types of drugs because as they are currently trained they can only notify a cop of the scent of a drug, not a particular type. So if the dog smells cocaine and alerts the cop, the cop has no way of knowing if the dog was actually smelling legal hemp. Therefore hemp is getting cases that began with a drug dog thrown out if the state can't provide any other reason for the search.