Maryland Police gave out munchies, then watched people get high — for training
Marijuana Industry NewsMaryland February 17, 2023 MJ Shareholders 0
Just after 7 p.m., under an outdoor tent in suburban Maryland, Yohanna Molina fired up a joint. With her were 11 others getting high.
“This is weird to be doing this here,” she told a friend hunched over a glass bong.
“You should try being on the police side of it,” cracked an officer standing behind them, one of more than a dozen cops also in the tent.
The exchange cut to the core of the strange but important gatherings that take place two to three times a year at the Montgomery County Police Department and are increasingly being held at police agencies nationwide. Montgomery County brings in marijuana smokers — literally goes to pick them up in police cars — and walks them to the tent outside its training academy so they can get stoned. Bags of Cheetos, bottles of water and plenty of pizza are on the house.
Participants are then used as test subjects for officers trying to determine whether someone is too high to drive. That’s not easy. Unlike people who drive drunk, and whose impairment can be quantified by breathalyzers and blood-alcohol tests, it’s more difficult to discern with pot.
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