In my area, the sheriff tells this tale over and over, kids smell like pot.

The war on drugs has long been a way to 'legally' keep minorities down.

We're living in a post-racial society now; the Supreme Court said so. It can't be about race, because it's never about race.

how much longer, America? people are OD'ing on Opiates right and left, and we're wasting time on weed.

poor kid.

Then they certainly would have smelled something.

When I cut and sand if I hit a green spot and smoke it the garage takes on the odor of hemp. The wife thinks I'm toking up in the garage.

If only.......................

Cleomes look just like weed before they bloom and they smell like some wonderful, funky stuff.

I've had a lot of fun with them. Some politician/insurance salesman/preacher type (who can tell???), knocked on my door one afternoon looking for someone. When I answered the door, and his question, he looked at my not-yet-bloomed cleomes and said, "Those are interesting plants." I replied "Yeah, they're cleomes. Look just like marijuana, don't they?" He hesitated and said, "Yes, they do." He was mentally deciding if it was safe to say he knew what weed looked like.

Cleomes, AKA spider plant. Check them out.

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My wife presses dried leaves and flowers between glass. One popular one that gets lots of attention (and sales) at art shows is the Japanese Maple Leaf. We have a friend who is a police officer and she knew what it was the moment she saw it. People who buy them have a lot of fun with them.

Imagine, Bob Marley raking maple leaves in the fall.........................

He did some sort of test in which he had me follow a pencil with my eyes and some other stuff. He said it was his opinion I was under the influence and that I needed to go take a UA. Which I did and it came back clean due to the fact I didn't do drugs or anything. The guy was adamant though and he continued to push my parents to put me in some anti-drug program. It made things a bit difficult for me at home.

I don't have must trust in school administrators.

has very little to do with drugs?

A dumb-as-rocks authoritarian school and school resource officer just damaged a student's education for NOTHING.

The Garner Magnet School CAN fuck up your life using the War on Drugs, and they WILL fuck up your life, even if you are completely innocent. The War on Drugs is about power, greed and cruelty, with absolutely NOTHING to do with public safety.

78 people die every day due to opioid overdose, but North Carolina's Garner Magnet High School is fighting "smells." What the everliving fuck?

Are cops and schools in NC so dumb they don't know that lots of things "smell like weed?" Certain azaleas smell JUST like cannabis flowers. Did the girl touch or pick one? Burnt coffee and other substances can also smell like that. When did cops and school administrators become so single-minded, so goddamned motherfucking ignorant that NO ONE TAUGHT THEM THIS?

I had to move a Japanese maple the other day, 4 ft tall, red branches with green flowers. One of my neighbor's kids drove by as I rode past with it in the passenger floorboard, and her eyes got all big. I looked over and realized that, to an idiot cop or neighbor's kid, that might look like a cannabis plant. What if I'm arrested before I arrive at the person's house, and I end up spending thousands of dollars defending myself against a goddamned maple, like folks have had to do with okra and tomatoes when dumbass law enforcement insisted these veggies were fucking pot?

But I made it unscathed, probably because the cops around here are smarter than your average bear. They would already know, even if they did stop me, it wasn't a controlled tree. But I really do worry about people who live in areas where the cops are so dim they believe every plant is a potential pot plant, every pot smell is pot.

Fucking morons, I hate this for this kid, but she needs to learn fast and young how goddamned STUPID our war on drugs really is, and the completely ignorant dumbasses who are waging it.

It hasn't got a goddamned thing to do with drugs.

It's about race, expanding the power of the state, benefiting certain industries and whittling away our freedoms. Can't even drive around with cash in our country anymore because cops can steal it from you if a dog sniffs it and smells something funny. No probable cause? No problem. They'll just take it anyway and it's up to you to PROVE that the money was legitimately obtained.

and the War on Drugs has done nada to lower drug use rates. They remain the same as when our nation's draconian assholes banded together to spend trillions ruining lives and neighborhoods.

I guess the high school gal in the OP needs to learn early that her education and her thriving future are not the concerns of the government, law enforcement or her school. Her state legislators, high school principal and uneducated school resource officer only want her to learn one thing:

would not place much validity in some bozos nose

We were recreational every day. It was quite something else. Good times. I went on to college, made the Dean's list every semester, then on to grad school and I am perfectly contented with my life. I still partake on occasion if the moment is right, but it isn't the same for me any more. I feel like it is more of a youth activity, and I have no regrets.

I'm happy for you that you were high all through high school.

This article is discussing a student who was not high, and tested negative for cannabis, which means she hasn't used it.

Are we so sick as a nation that we now just willy-nilly disrupt young people's lives because they SMELL like something we associate with "bad?" No scientific basis, no constitutional basis, no fucking logical basis for it but, oh well.