{"id":7583,"date":"2017-07-15T18:05:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T18:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2717468&amp;preview_id=2717468"},"modified":"2017-07-15T18:05:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T18:05:29","slug":"pot-smell-not-enough-to-search-car-colorado-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/pot-smell-not-enough-to-search-car-colorado-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Pot smell not enough to search car, Colorado court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/pot-smell-not-enough-to-search-car-colorado-court-rules\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 Drug-sniffing police dogs in Colorado may need new training if they can detect marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>A ruling last week by the Colorado Court of Appeals sets a new precedent for drug cases.<\/p>\n<p>A three-judge panel ruled that if a drug-sniffing dog is trained to alert officers to marijuana and other drugs, cops need more cause to search a vehicle without permission.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gjsentinel.com\/news\/articles\/court-scent-not-enough-for-car-searc\/\">Grand Junction Sentinel reports<\/a> that because a drug dog used in a 2015 Moffat County case could not tell officers whether he smelled pot or other drugs, the search was illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Judges wrote that pot is legal and users have \u201ca legitimate expectation of privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>Courts in other states with legal marijuana for medical or recreational purposes have said that a pot smell is insufficient grounds for a search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Drug-sniffing police dogs in Colorado may need new training if they can detect marijuana. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6813,77,5667,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6818,2655,5673,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}