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Originally Posted by HOOT
Because they had no cause to search my car in the first place we had all our ID we had a travell plan plus they found the lighter AFTER they started searching the car, it wasn't even on me it was under my passenger seat probably with a million other things I didn't even know were in my car.
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They don't need cause to search your vehicle....you are a guest into their country and even if you are a citizen, they have a right to search your vehicle, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. I agree that if they spent 2 hours looking at your stuff, then that is a little to long IMO. As for the reason they didn't search your person....that would require reasonable grounds to suspect and I am not sure those grounds would be present with just finding THC residue on a lighter. They also shouldn't have lectured you on the use of marijuana....it is not their place.
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Personally I don't care that is just something I plan for when crossing the boarders because they are complete jokes. They all want to be the hero that captures the bad coming into their country, but when they are busy harrassing a mid 20's guy with a lighter that had some risidue there was probably a semi truck full of it going through somewhere else.
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The thing is....many large seizures are found because of small indicators such as this. They never know if you do have 20 kilos hidden somewhere or just the residue on a lighter.