>I myself have never used Hemp (let alone "etc.")<
Oh come now, surely you've indulged in, at one time or another, in a little etcetera. :-)
Drug/Police anecdote: Last week, City of Vancouver, WA police set up a sign beside the road which read "Drug Checkpoint Ahead". After several complaints about the tactic, which complainers said was illegal, the police cheif ordered the sign taken down. In response to media calls to his office, the police chief readily agreed that random stops to search for drugs were unconstitutional---but that there was no such "drug checkpoint", but the sign only. Police cruisers would sit and watch to see which cars turned around and went the other way after seeing the sign--then pulled them over for illegal u-turns. Then once they had them pulled over, they ran a check on them for outstanding warrants, valid license, etc. All in all, a grand fishing expedition. :-)
But the chief of police said that he "wasn't completely comfortable with it", and so ordered the operation halted. As for the sign, he said, "you can't believe everything you read. Sometimes you see a sign that says 'speed enforced by aircraft', but there's rarely an aircraft in the sky". (We have those signs in the dry open eastern part of Washington). |
