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by minikites 3019 days ago
>the presence of weed allowed for entry/search by police

This is the biggest reason so many "law and order" types fight legalization. It's a "Get Out of the Fourth Amendment Free" card:

https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2018/03/08/joe-kennedy-...

>Recalling his days working as a state prosecutor when Massachusetts voted in 2008 to decriminalize marijuana, Kennedy said the decision affected the ability of police officers to search and seize other illegal items, such as guns, from vehicles.

>“If you smelled [marijuana] in a car, you could search a car,” Kennedy said. “When it became decriminalized, you couldn’t do that.”