Maybe this has been covered...
Yet another thing to consider about Law Enforcement people is that they are dishonest. They are actually trained to lie and do so, there is no law that says the police must be honest with you.
Some friends of mine went camping a few years back and some officers showed up at their camp. The officers took one guy (T) aside and talked to him and then came back and said that T had made incriminating statements about the others there, saying that T had told them that people had drugs etc.
Everyone played dumb, after a few minutes the officer admitted lying, T had not said anything at all, nobody was searched and nothing was seized. However what is important to notice is how the officer lied, this type of thing is illegal to do to an officer, however it is legal for them to do to you.
In some places if you have long hair, stickers on your car, are not clean shaven, have brown skin, a tiedye shirt etc, then you are going to be pulled over and searched. You might not live in a place like this and might not consider this, but if you travel and drive through a place like this you could pay a very serious price. In the USA you could be driving along and be fine and then drive into the wrong state and be pulled over because you look like an outsider.
The best advice I can give, however, is to be cool. Like the ER article where a guy calls up the police (DEA?) and asks what he can and can't do or grow. They tell him basically that if he is cool, he won't have to worry. This works well. I know people who have been stopped by police many times and have never been searched, because they treated the officers with respect, these people would be in prison if they had been searched.
The smartest drug users I know never look the part, they are clean cut, they wear shirts with collars never T-shirts, they wear slacks never jeans. They have short hair, shave often, don't have stickers on their car, they keep their cars clean, they keep their yards nice, they don't wear jewelry in general, they don't have tattoos or use a lot of slang. They also won't be seen in public with people who are not clean cut.
Remember there is a war going on, a war against good people, a war against personal liberty.
Drug users benefit from camouflage.
Yet another thing to consider about Law Enforcement people is that they are dishonest. They are actually trained to lie and do so, there is no law that says the police must be honest with you.
Some friends of mine went camping a few years back and some officers showed up at their camp. The officers took one guy (T) aside and talked to him and then came back and said that T had made incriminating statements about the others there, saying that T had told them that people had drugs etc.
Everyone played dumb, after a few minutes the officer admitted lying, T had not said anything at all, nobody was searched and nothing was seized. However what is important to notice is how the officer lied, this type of thing is illegal to do to an officer, however it is legal for them to do to you.
In some places if you have long hair, stickers on your car, are not clean shaven, have brown skin, a tiedye shirt etc, then you are going to be pulled over and searched. You might not live in a place like this and might not consider this, but if you travel and drive through a place like this you could pay a very serious price. In the USA you could be driving along and be fine and then drive into the wrong state and be pulled over because you look like an outsider.
The best advice I can give, however, is to be cool. Like the ER article where a guy calls up the police (DEA?) and asks what he can and can't do or grow. They tell him basically that if he is cool, he won't have to worry. This works well. I know people who have been stopped by police many times and have never been searched, because they treated the officers with respect, these people would be in prison if they had been searched.
The smartest drug users I know never look the part, they are clean cut, they wear shirts with collars never T-shirts, they wear slacks never jeans. They have short hair, shave often, don't have stickers on their car, they keep their cars clean, they keep their yards nice, they don't wear jewelry in general, they don't have tattoos or use a lot of slang. They also won't be seen in public with people who are not clean cut.
Remember there is a war going on, a war against good people, a war against personal liberty.
Drug users benefit from camouflage.