If I'm ever on a jury for a case that relies on police testimony as its lynchpin, I'll hang it single handedly if I have to. Show me some evidence.

Not sure that was factual.

Did the cop have breath-radar? How the fuck did he pull someone over for bad breath?

If you buy from a legal Illinois dispensary, you should be safe either way. They put it in packaging that has no detectable smell.

Don't worry. The lack of a detectable smell has never stopped cops from 'smelling' marijuana before.

IDK what dispensaries you're visiting. But, even through the manufacturer's packaging and the dispensary's packaging it was quite loud in my car driving home.

Not true of the dispensary I visited a few months ago while in a legal state. You could smell cannabis in the parking lot from the building and smell it once I got it back to the car where the smell lingered for hours even after double bagging it.

So funny as every dispo has a smell. Of weed. If the jars and containers are smell proof where's it coming from.?.

No way every container is perfectly sealing. And if even 1 I buy leaks slightly it will smell like weed in my car even if I don't open the container. So is it really fair to use smell as the 1 factor needed to allowing search.

Precedent in different states doesn't bind the rulings of other states. A federal district court could establish precedent for all of the district. National precedent would come from the SCOTUS.

Other court rulings maybe raised as a persuasive reason though.

No, a state court's decision from a different state does not have precedential authority in the instant state.

Depends on the state, and the WaPo article is paywalled, so I don't know if that applies to Illinois yet. It should apply everywhere.

Cops claim they smell weed so they can search your car, and you cant argue they didnt have probable cause since they can't record a smell.

If i get pulled over and there is blood dripping from my trunk, that is valid probable cause, andbthe dashcam footage will capture it. Cops can just claim they smelled weed and search you and you are now Sol

Cops use "smell of marijuana" and "smell of burning marijuana" literally everyday to profile people and give themselves excuses to pull over and search minorities.

Its easier for illegal seizure when they can blanket cover their ass that there is some underlying thing that allowed them to be able to take whatever they wanted like when you're randomly driving to go and purchase a vehicle from somebody and you happen to have all of that funds in cash but the police can seize it take it from you and you can't even contest it took far later and some how its my responsibility to prove the money isn't illicit

I don’t like even smelling burning weed being okay. Then I can drive my stoner friends around all the time and they can smoke in my car.