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Originally posted by DeltAlum
As noted above, I think they are.
Even if not, cops can be very creative in discovering "probable cause" to stop you.
Like a broken tail light, or driving one mile per hour over the speed limit.
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I meant roadside spotchecks were every car goes thorugh a checkpoint set-up by the cops, and everyone is checked..... not a cop pulling you over.
They set these RIDE checks up around the weekend, or major sporting events on some common route to the highway or just a main road. There will be about twenty cops processing the cars as they come through.... they will ask "have you been drinking", if they smell booze, you say yes, or they think you have - "please drive over to that officer over there for a breathalizer test"; along with ID and insurance.
From what cops (on my hockey team) have told me if they smell pot they'll ask you to pull over to the side and will administer a roadside sobriety test (reflexes, reaction time, hand-eye coordination). They have mentioned that they have been catching alot more people messed up on pot lately, who all insist that they can't be charged with drinking and driving (it's not that up here, it's Driving Under the Influence).
I personally think that idiots that drive stoned should have they book thrown at them just like idiots who drive drunk.