Poor guy:

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=1438019

He was serving a court ordered public service sentence, and got arrested for it. The cop "was sure" he smelled marijuana on the cookies. The guy winds up in jail. The cookies are tested for drugs and the results are negative. Charges are dropped.

Cops are absolutely out of control here. No one reported being sick from the cookies, and it was cops that ate them. Never mind that, let's arrest this guy based on our noses. The chief says that the procedures were followed. Whoever wrote these procedures is a moron. This insane rush to give cops every benefit of the doubt will come to no good. No way.

A cop administering a field drug test is just as competent at that as he is at rocket fuel science. He is not a chemist, and his opinion has the same worth in both fields. None.

To put it bluntly, LSD and marijuana share NO chemical similarities. They "smelled" pot and the field test "detected" LSD. Seems like any rational person would question every bit of "judgment" these officers exercised. At the very least, the chief ought to be wondering if these officers need some more training.

But it's all OK now. The charges are dropped and all the young man has to face is his probation officer for being arrested again. Never mind that the arrest was totally baseless. He will probably get life for breaking probation. That is how these badges and judges work.

Let us hope that his family has the means to pursue a civil case, if for nothing else, for the sheer stupidity of the cops.

This is so laughably preposterous as to reek of criminal cop stupidity. I am talking about the POLICIES that led to this silliness. This is our tax money at work.