Bullshit on the "can't detect" claims.

Give me proper analytical laboratory equipment and I fairly certain I can not only detect THC, I can give you a concentration per gram of test material.

Now it won't be cheap, but it can be done by GCMS or HPLC.

If that doesn't work, sequence the two genomes and compare seized samples against the genomic standard.

Again, not cheap, but effective.

Better still legalize it and redeploy the law enforcement resources against a more serious problem like meth, fentanyl, and carenfentanyl

The argument is that the problem isn't being able to test it so much as the cost of testing, bottlenecks in terms of getting access to testing, and the cost and bottlenecks involved in getting qualified lab techs to show up to testify in court for each individual case.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
The smell of weed would still seem to give you probable cause.

If you smell it after it's been burned, yeah. If it hasn't been burned, then it looks and smells like exactly the same thing.