The Drug War Chronicle has a nice
piece this week on stepped up enforcement tactics around summer music festivals across the country, and how to avoid them.
The basics are:
1) don't smoke pot in your vehicle on the way to or from the festival, since you have a higher chance of getting pulled over and the smell is enough for a probable cause search. Also, conceal your stash so it can't be seen casually from outside the vehicle. (bag of pills in the front seat = stupid)
2) don't turn off ahead of advertised drug checkpoints. Such checkpoints are illegal, but are still advertised to catch the paranoids who turn off ahead of time to hide/ditch their stash.
3) don't ever, under any circumstances, consent to a search. Cops will say it will make things easier on you. It won't.
4) keep quantities as small as possible, so if you do get caught you won't have much to get cited for.
5) undercover cops don't have to reveal that they're cops if you ask them, contrary to anything you might have heard.
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