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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDrinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/28/federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home
The family was then held at gunpoint for more than two hours while the police searched their home. Though they claimed to be looking for evidence of a major marijuana growing operation, they later stated that they knew within about 20 minutes that they wouldnt find any such operation. So they switched to search for evidence of personal use. They found no evidence of any criminal activity.
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A state trooper had been positioned in the store parking lot to collect the license plate numbers of customers, compile them into a spreadsheet, then send the spreadsheets to local sheriffs departments for further investigation. Yes, merely shopping at a gardening store could make you the target of a criminal drug investigation.
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Back in 2009, the Marijuana Policy Project demonstrated how easily the tests could be manipulated to generate positive results:As a lab-coated and rubber glove wearing researcher from the South Carolina Center for Biotechnology dumped a sample of oregano into a field test kit, Mintwood Medias Adam Eidinger produced a positive test result for cocaine with another kit simply by exposing it to the atmosphere. This is just air, Eidinger said, opening up a test and waving it as the reagent turned orange, indicating a positive result. (See the YouTube video here.)
The testing done at the press conference replicated that done earlier by the researchers, who found that a surprisingly large number of common substances generated false positive results for the presence of drugs. While testing the specificity of the KN Reagent test kits with 42 non-marijuana substances, I observed that 70% of these tests rendered a false positive, said Dr. Omar Bagasra, director of the Center for Biotechnology, who conducted the experiments.
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Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home (Original Post)
TalkingDog
Dec 2015
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Jerry442
(1,265 posts)1. So the couple both were once CIA.
Karma?
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)2. Or a "caution" to watch their P's and Q's.
If we're going there.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)3. yup
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. All the real crimes have been solved.