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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody thinks pretextural stops make sense. [/quote]

DUI is a pretextual stop.

[b]Stopping a car that smells like cannabis is pretextual stop.   And it's one that almost always results in illegal gun confiscation.[/b]

A sheriff arrested Timothy McVeigh an hour or so after the Oklahoma City bombing because of a pretextual stop.  McVeigh's car didn't have a license plate.

They can be abused.  
But they can also be a great tool for keeping the community safe.   
It's stupid to ban them outright.

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Can you provide data to back this up? I'd be willing to venture that smelling cannabis is on its way to becoming a meaningless pretextual stop given the medical cannabis availability and the soon to be recreational availability. MoCo might still have more dispensaries than any other county in the state. The vast majority of these people are not folks with illegal guns. [/quote]

Whether cannabis is legal in the state or not almost doesnt matter.    If you smell alcohol from a car- it implies that the driver could be inebriated.   Same thing with weed. [/quote]

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