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There is supposed to be probable cause before asking for a test; so blatant testing could and would be contested.

• godelski 3y ago
  I've been stopped when there was no probable cause, and contested. I was visiting the Golden gate Park a decade back and asked a ranger for some directions. They stopped me and my friend because "they smelled weed". We still got searched. We did not smoke and there was no way we could have smelled. We did have a still sealed container from a local dispensary that was not know in it's container, but a ziplock bag. The bar for probable cause is so low that it can be normal things (any given location in SF has high likelihood of smelling like weed). And remember, this is because I walked up to a fucking park ranger and said "hey do you have a map?" Even the second ranger protested and asked to be off record. Couldn't contest without going back to SF and that's technically federal property. I'm just saying, I wouldn't rely on this being a sufficient safety mechanism. Abuse is rampant and difficult to prove.
  • Closi 3y ago
    Sure, but probable cause probably can't be justified if you are drug screening everyone attending a political rally - that would probably be easier to argue as abuse than a stop of a single person on the street.
    • hedora 3y ago
      Apparently, everyone that visits a particular park or part of town, or has a particular appearance^H^H^H^H undefined smell is OK already. So, just start regularly screening people in places where political rallies tend to be. (Or just target the attendees in the areas where they live.)