What did your parents do when they caught you smoking weed?
Haha okay this still makes me laugh!I'd been smoking weed since I was around 11. I was about 13 and while I was looking for sand paper for a school project, I stumbled across a random seemingly empty coffee can. Curious, I peaked inside and found a rolled up sandwhich bag with green stuff in it. I unrolled it to check out it's contents and found an 8th of weed! I was so excited because at the time I didn't have any. So I dipped in and took a good size nug and put it back before I got caught!!I continued to randomly take some here and there. Making sure I didn't take a noticeable amount, and rolled it up how I thought it was. I did this for a few months, thinking how sneaky and awesome it was…Well one day I ran out so I want into the garage as usual to dip into my parents stash can. But this time, the lid had in black bold sharpie: “Gotcha!!!” and the coffee can was completely empty. I was so scared, I want out the side door and went for a very long walk to think of what excuses I could give them. Nothing was really going to work. So I get back home an hour or 2 later, hoping things would just be left unsaid. NOPE. Haha they were in the living room waiting. My heart was racing, my mind about to explode thinking of my punishment. Starting blushing and sweating. Finally after what seemed like hours of silent parents staring me down, they finally said:“we always roll the bag up differently everyday so we figured you were taking some when the roll wasn't right… you need to ASK us next time. Can't stop you obviously from smoking, so instead of STEALING it from us just ask please.”I sighed a huge breath of relief. “Yes! I'm off the hook!” I thought.“Oh Megann, by the way, your also grounded for 3 months… “Damn… haha almost! They couldn't have been more mellow and nice about it. Surprised the hell out of me that's for sure! They could've done locked me up and thrown away the key for WAY longer then what I got, so that was pretty cool.The same scenario played out almost exactly the same when I got caught stealing their cigarettes too. Haha after I got a job at 16 my mom agreed to just buy me my own pack as long as I payed for them myself.
How much weed does it take for a drug dog to be able to detect it?
None at all. I was watching "Send in the Dogs" on ITV in the UK and there was a border collie who was doing passive work in a tube station, not specifically searching specific people or bags but was situated on the exit from the station and would indicate anyone walking past who had drugs on them. Everyone he pointed out was carrying drugs, but in between indications, he kept putting his head in the air and sniffing, so the policeman decided to cross the barrier on to the main platform and let the dog follow his nose and he led the handler up to a guy on the opposite end of the platfrom who, it was revealed when questioned, had smoked a joint earlier that day- he still had traces of it on his breath, and the dog still smelt it from that distance. So there's no hiding it, incase you were thinking of getting up to no good!
What should you do, if your parents catch you using drugs (weed) and confront you?
You didn’t say how old you are or what your family’s standards and expectations are in the matter.My brother tried that when he was 14. Mom cleaned his room and found 14 different pipes and bongs which she had laid out on his bed in a decorative way to set the stage for confronting him when he got home. Of course his first defense was that he had just taken them home to “clean” for a friend and he wasn’t really sure what they were.The “for a friend” schtick is as old as dirt and about as effective as holding your breath until you turn blue. (You may have discovered that already.)If you are a teen (or pre-teen) and your parents do not approve, you’ll just have to be sneakier next time (I don’t approve or recommend this, just making a point). At least come up with a better story for when you — inevitably — get caught again.(A very few parents may simply approve, by the way, but even among people who are themselves heavy users of cannabis, there is often an understanding the it can negatively impact the development of an adolescent brain.)I think that many parents in the US these days, having grown up around it themselves (even if they did not approve or indulge) consider that it is just something teens are going to do, like trying on too much makeup or driving their cars too fast to impress others.My own daughter recently asked us what would happen if she went to the beach with her friends and they smoked pot. We told her that, while we appreciated her making the inquiry, we didn’t really feel we could stop it if we tried but not to ride if the driver was impaired. Of course, she is 17 and a half and we live in Northern California. We would have an easier time forbidding her to be around gluten than cannabis in this region so we would be both naive and completely ineffective to just lay down the law.If you’re an adult and cannabis is legal where you live, just ask her politely to return it. If you’re living at home, its your own business whether you use cannabis but still a roommate respect thing as to whether you indulge or store it at home (some jurisdictions can still be very harsh regarding possession and it is not fair to subject any housemates, parental or not, to such risk).Really, though, “holding it for a friend”? I’m surprised she didn’t laugh her ass off (and she probably did once she could relax her strict mom face. If you’re old enough to toke, don’t make your cover story such a joke.
Where does confiscated marijuana go?
In NYC the marijuana goes to the property clerk within its respective borough. Once the case is finalized it's placed with other finalized narcotic evidence and is burned at Rodmans Neck in the Bronx.
Is a plastic baggy drug paraphernalia?
In a sense, both answers might be right. I am looking now through case law. Plastic bags can certainly be "drug paraphernalia" along with scales, etc. When a small quantity of marijuana is contained within a single plastic bag, there is some doubt. I will modify this answer if and when I find something concrete. I've found no cases that meet what I wrote in the preceding paragraph. -------- There are 111 reported cases that involve conviction for drugs AND paraphernalia where plastic bag(s) were involved. A quick run-through show none where the charge involved a single bag or marijuana. State v. Wright, 2004 PA Super 87; 846 A.2d 730 (2004) involved: "The object which Appellant threw to the ground was retrieved and was determined to be a clear sandwich baggie containing 58 clear plastic bags of crack cocaine. A search of Appellant's person yielded an orange Ziploc bag of marijuana, two vials of marijuana, a cellular phone, and $ 80.00 in cash." I think it is exorbitant to charge a defendant with possession of drug paraphernalia when there is a single baggie containing marijuana for personal use. I think a defendant would have a good chance of winning in court. On the other hand, some judges are crazy. One of the cases I read was from Louisiana where a poor woman got 30 years for possession of some crack cocaine and plastic bags. On appeal the sentence was found "excessive, akin to a sentence appropriate for rape and murder" -- as indeed it was. You can read the Wright case at http://www.lexisone.com -- free registration is required. Click the circle marked "search by citation" and type in "846 A.2d 730"