{"id":2699,"date":"2017-07-28T19:09:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T00:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2017-07-28T19:09:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T00:09:38","slug":"federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2699","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Why\u00a0did the field tests come up positive for pot? \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/02\/26\/a-partial-list-of-things-that-field-testing-drug-kits-have-mistakenly-identified-as-contraband\/\">As I wrote back in Februar<\/a>y, it\u2019s almost as if these tests come up positive whenever the police need them to. A partial list of substances that the tests have mistaken for illegal drugs would include sage, chocolate chip cookies, motor oil, spearmint, soap, tortilla dough, deodorant, billiard\u2019s chalk, patchouli, flour, eucalyptus, breath mints, Jolly Ranchers and vitamins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/12\/28\/federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home\/?utm_term=.1ecdcee85d5a\">Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.ksd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2013cv2586-340\">Last week<\/a>, U.S. District Court Judge John W. Lungstrum dismissed every one of the Hartes\u2019s claims. Lungstrum\u00a0found that sending a SWAT team into a home first thing in the morning based on no more than a positive field test and spotting a suspect at a gardening store was not a violation of the Fourth Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why\u00a0did the field tests come up positive for pot? \u00a0As I wrote back in February, it\u2019s almost as if these tests come up positive whenever the police need them to. A partial list of substances that the tests have mistaken &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2699\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","tag-drug-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}