Even if they did, won’t they get a lot of false positives because of a large amount of it being sprayed hemp buds that are legal as hemp? Also, I know a lot of dispensaries get their stock like vape pens and such delivered this way already. How does that all work?

  • FuglyDuck
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    37 months ago

    They can just delay your package until the warrant comes through. It doesn’t take that long.

    And “we got a hit by a dog/swab” is usually accepted probable cause for opening it up

    • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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      77 months ago

      They can also alert law enforcement in the shipper/receivers area to bust you when sending or collecting the package. I recall a few years ago someone sent a weed shipment and used the address of the mayor of some city in Maryland as the recipient and the police raided his house and shot his dogs.

      • FuglyDuck
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        77 months ago

        and shot his dogs.

        bastards. It’d be funny otherwise.

      • @CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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        Babe, wake up, someone found a new way to sic cops on people.

        If it weren’t for the dogs it would be funny.

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        Interesting lesson in this story:

        Pkg with contraband was intercepted, documented, all needed warrants secured. Pkg is delivered while the house is staked out by LEOs. Sometime after delivery (a day later, iirc) they bust in, find the pkg, and arrest. The pkg was sitting just inside by the door, unopened. Defense argued “my client knows nothing about this unexpected package. Who’s to say the sender wasn’t framing the recipient?” So he obviously got vindicated.

        So there’s a game of timing. Recipients need to be given the chance to open the pkg and react by calling the police. Not sure how it goes if you consume it immediately after opening and burn the box. Certainly the wrong move is to open it and let it sit around open.

        /cc @snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world