Ten Years In The Life Of A Local Drug Dealer He isn't nervous yet, because there isn't any reason to be. Is there? Nothing in the car. Nothing in his pockets. Expired tags. Just popped into the office to grab something, his wallet with his ID left at home. A cop asks him to step out of the car, please, sir. Another officer says he smells pot and asks if they can search his person. Yes you can, officer, because he knows he's got nothing on him. Can we search the car? The car is a mess, boxes of stuff from the move, clothes all over the place, it'll take forever for them to go through it. No, you can't search the car. It's Saturday. He works full-time. Wants to get home and enjoy his weekend. The cops take their sweet time filling out the ticket and as he's signing it, a K-9 unit pulls up. The dog sniffs around outside the car and then sniffs around inside. When it gets to the back, it starts to paw at the seats, scrabble, scrabble, skritch, skritch, and so now too bad, sucker, we're gonna search the trunk. And they find a backpack and look inside. [continues 263 words]
Rutherford Fights For Religious Pot Use The Rutherford Institute, a Charlottesville-based organization that defends civil liberties, is currently representing Carl Eric Olsen in his 30-year struggle for religious freedom. That in itself is not noteworthy, as The Rutherford Institute specializes in religious cases. But what is unusual is the particular religious freedom for which Olsen is fighting. Since the early '70s, Olsen has been a member of the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church (EZCC), a religious group that holds that marijuana is a sacrament, and whose members smoke it all day, every day. [continues 348 words]
