Funny, just rented a car last week. First two they tried to give me reeked of pot, the third one had dog hair everywhere, was annoyed but it was a free upgrade. 2nd rant, every car in that lot was filthy, in & out.

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Funny, just rented a car last week. First two they tried to give me reeked of pot
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Good luck explaining it to a cop, if you get pulled over. "I swear, officer, it's not mine!" And the previous renter should be charged for extra cleanup.

When we go to Maryland/DC we like to play a little game of "Skunk or Pothead". And now that pot is getting legalized, there is a noticeable drop in people vaping.

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Originally posted by xd45man:
I'll say it. They want us docile and encourageable..

This is my take also…the Kelly Turnbull series by LTC Kurt Schlitcher writes about a divide US (Red v Blue) and in the blue, drugs and booze are not discouraged….makes sense to keep the population calm

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Originally posted by Schmelby:

Question for LEO's. If I'm driving a rental car and get pulled over for a traffic violation and they
want to search my car, what do I do? Fifty people could have rented that car before me and dropped
A piece of crack or weed under the seat. I haven't smoked a joint in in 35 years, I wouldn't want to
get busted for somebody elses drugs. I'm sure this has happened before.

The search is gonna happen if the cop can smell it. If anything is found, it’s on you. I had a case where the driver said it wasn’t his (baggie with maybe two joints) and it was under the seat. Judge didn’t buy it, saying “you know they vacuum and clean those cars when you turn them in”. But defendant was a shitbag with a long history of drug use/sales/etc….

As someone who has rented hundreds of cars, that judge has a lot of misplaced faith in the quality of cleanings those cars get. I’ve found all sorts of items under seats in rental cars.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:

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Originally posted by Schmelby:

Question for LEO's. If I'm driving a rental car and get pulled over for a traffic violation and they
want to search my car, what do I do? Fifty people could have rented that car before me and dropped
A piece of crack or weed under the seat. I haven't smoked a joint in in 35 years, I wouldn't want to
get busted for somebody elses drugs. I'm sure this has happened before.

The search is gonna happen if the cop can smell it. If anything is found, it’s on you. I had a case where the driver said it wasn’t his (baggie with maybe two joints) and it was under the seat. Judge didn’t buy it, saying “you know they vacuum and clean those cars when you turn them in”. But defendant was a shitbag with a long history of drug use/sales/etc….

I've rented cars to drive to Florida. They don't clean them out. Sand in the trunk and in the back seat, I do the walkaround
and take pictures they just shrug their shoulders and say what do you expect? I think there are some municipalities
that will fleece you for anything they can. I just won't rent cars anymore. I've heard horror stories of people being
railroaded by small towns, confiscating anything they can when they pull you over.
Spend fifty grand to get your ten grand back.

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Originally posted by Pale Horse:
As someone who has rented hundreds of cars, that judge has a lot of misplaced faith in the quality of cleanings those cars get. I’ve found all sorts of items under seats in rental cars.

Interesting. I've probably rented hundreds also and I've never once looked under the seats.

This was part of a post I made back over the summer.

"I finally get around all the mess of traffic and as I approach the final traffic light I need to go through to get to Lowe's there is a car in the middle lane not moving.
As every one goes around him I follow and as I pass I can see him through his open passenger side window firing up a bong. I can, even with my windows closed smell the stench of pot as I pass him."


I have had this happen in the past.
In my neighborhood there is someone who every so often likes to smoke outside their house. If the wind is blowing the right direction I can't open my house windows if the weather is nice because of the smell.

Talking with a local LEO while examining his K9 partner the other day, and the subject came up. He asks people if there are any illegal substances in the car, and if they say weed he just says "anything else?" and moves on. He said that nowadays unless they have quantity sufficient to be a distributor, or unless they're total a holes, he won't even bother.

When I was an Enterprise car wrangler, it was common for me to find the renters stash left behind after the car was returned. And we would get calls from people asking us if we found the stash and could we return it to them? My boss just tossed most of it out.

I hear you, seems I can't leave the house anymore without getting kicked in the nostrils by skunk weed. On the road, walking through the parking lot, passing someone in the isles of a store - any store and at any time of the day. 1 out of every 3 people is walking around high in public.

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Originally posted by MelissaDallas:
After I moved in where I live now I told my cousin I thought we had a skunk around. He laughed and said it was just the next door neighbors smoking weed on their backyard deck. Weed now smells a lot nastier than it used to.

Someone may have opened a bottle of Corona Extra.

The smell of the stuff make me nauseous. Two of my neighbors smoke it and of course they don't want to stink up their house, so they smoke outside. I can't even go in own yard and breathe fresh air, nope I have to smell that shit.

I've only rented a couple cars and the last one had an ibuprofen by the back left leg of the passenger seat.
While not an illegal drug, sure wouldn't have wanted a kid to get a hold of it.

And there was some bits of straw throughout the cargo area.

As to the original post, I'm with ya. I absolutely hate the smell of marijuana.

Had this happen last night. Of all placed, the gym. I check in, head upstairs and as soon as I’m warming up someone walked past and just wreaked. I mean they smelled like they were smoking the dank shit. I have no idea what that stuff was but it had to be the strongest marijuana I have ever smelled in my life. I get done warming up on the machine and go over to set up my bench. I see a guy I know so I pull out my AirPods and go talk to him. “Dude is it just me or does it wreak of pot?” He said nope, not just you. He said the guy was vaping it in the locker room too. I do two warmup sets and go grab the 60’s and oh my fuck. Dude’s clothes alone completely stunk up a commercial gym. The smell was everywhere. Fool was doing chintzy weight then kind of stagger walked out of there, thankfully. I mean a club, a bar, but the got damn gym?

The gym is already a cluster fuck as is without weed heads in there.

It has no business in any public place that could be a safety concern.

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Originally posted by cas:
The smell of the stuff make me nauseous. Two of my neighbors smoke it and of course they don't want to stink up their house, so they smoke outside. I can't even go in own yard and breathe fresh air, nope I have to smell that shit.

You're in the same position I'm in...and the woman living there is an RN working at a local hospital. I looked it up and the hospital's position is that if they have a medical marijuana card, it's okay if they test positive for marijuana.

You've got to be kidding me. So RNs can now be stoned at work?

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:
You've got to be kidding me. So RNs can now be stoned at work?

No more than an RN is allowed to be drunk at work, or high on pills at work.

Even if it's legal for them to use alcohol/weed/mind-altering prescription drugs, employers are still allowed to prohibit them from being under the influence at work. This is especially true for jobs in which the health or safety of others is at risk, and a nurse clearly falls under that category.

Further, employers are allowed to outright prohibit medical marijuana prescription holders from working in DOT-regulated jobs or safety/security sensitive jobs. Again, a nurse would fall under the latter.

So even if the hospital chooses to continue to employ medical marijuana users, I suspect they still have a policy against being under the influence while at work. If not, they're wide open for a major lawsuit when a nurse makes a medical mistake while under the influence of medical marijuana.

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:

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Originally posted by cas:
The smell of the stuff make me nauseous. Two of my neighbors smoke it and of course they don't want to stink up their house, so they smoke outside. I can't even go in own yard and breathe fresh air, nope I have to smell that shit.

You're in the same position I'm in...and the woman living there is an RN working at a local hospital. I looked it up and the hospital's position is that if they have a medical marijuana card, it's okay if they test positive for marijuana.

You've got to be kidding me. So RNs can now be stoned at work?

My neighbor is puffing weed 3 to 5 minutes after getting home. It's on her own property so ordinarily I'd be OK, but impacts me and others for two reasons:

She smokes weed on her back patio, and my builder put my HVAC fresh air / make up air intake very near their patio.

She drives through the 25 mph neighborhood like she is Mario Andretti. Her kid is a recluse so she doesn't give a shit about other people's kids playing in the street. My theory is us peons are an inconvenience standing between her and her weed.

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