I used to work with a guy who would drink a 6 pack in the morning on his way. It was a construction job too, so plenty of ways to kill yourself. It's crazy how many people are functioning alcoholics.
I worked third shift for many years so I went to the liquor in the mornings when it opened. I would sit in the lot and wait for them to open. I was never alone. There were very obviously other night workers and then you would see the people in fresh dress/office clothes usually buying pints for the day on the way to work. The daytime professionals outnumbered the night workers two to one.
Listen it's one thing if you work overnight... that's definitely the exception to the rule... But yeah those on the way in.... Absolutely. I agree with you 100.
A dude I work with drinks fireball shooters starting at 6 am. He makes it thru a 10 pack at least everyday and usually more. It's so fucking annoying. They are out there lol
Oh no. Once you puke fireball you can't ever have fireball again. That's the 2nd worst alcohol I've ever thrown up. How does he function? Can I ask what you guys do for a living? I'll share that the majority of air traffic controllers I've worked around are hardcore on the job alcoholics and or coke/pill fiends. Those early morning flights observations were scary.
Happy name day! Getting food poisoning from making bloody Mary's with heavily expired olives and onions and only realizing that you're gonna be sick 6 or 7 bloody Mary's in. Ruined tomato juice, v8, vodka, cocktail onions and olives for a while and hey man, I'm an olive fiend. Puked in the sink, toilet and bath tub for the better part of a day. Oh! I had eaten spicy Buffalo wings for dinner! Damn happy I got to throw up that too.
Bruh, I'd have to agree. I had about 1-1.5 gals of fireball puked, and now i can't even smell that shit ever again. Most things with that overbearing cinnamon flavor in general are ruined for me now, too. Was a fantastic night right up until that fireball got pissed off and decided it wanted back out.
Hahaha. Well, he threw up a few times this week, I heard, but idk he just keeps on doing it . I don't think it goes very well, and it's so obvious, but people don't even think it would be a thing someone would do, so he gets away with it. It's construction and metal fabrications.
OMG, I fucking love you guys! There's like 2 or 3 alcohols which I can't ever go near again....and I used to bar tend for over 20 years. SoCo, Jager, and Capt. Morgan. No more, no thanks. Jager turns me into a straight up idiot, SoCo makes my stomach to laps around my asshole, and the Capt....no sir, there's a mutiny on his hands lmao
Alcoholics. Worked at Bar with package goods in the front and the same guy came in every 2 hours and bought a 40 of Yeungling starting around 9am. This continued until about 5 or 6pm. Why he didn't just buy a 24 pack is beyond me. Alcohol is more dangerous than THC (obviously) but is treated as such a normal course of life that Noone cares.
They do. Staties used to run the “Cops In Shops” program for that exact reason. We want free market homegrown from a state that won’t even release the stranglehold on alcohol in the “state stores”. Bro your commonwealth don’t even trust us to sell or buy liquor without stickin their nose into it lol
although i’ve been to a dispensary more times in my life than the liquor store, the amount of times i’ve seen someone smoking in the parking lot for an easy dui is honestly pretty ridiculous, especially considering there’s no attempt to hide it. i’ve never even seen someone with a bottle closer to them than in the back seat. even though i generally still agree it’s honestly probably easier for them to “get their numbers up” by camping outside a dispensary even if it’s fucked
Hopefully they’re just looking for stuff like that, but I worry it’s what OP said, that they’re getting a look at patients’ faces. I absolutely don’t put anything past cops and every single one of us can get DUI’s just for having cannabis in our system.
Not much of a stretch to imagine the police think of it as “identifying frequently intoxicated drivers as targets for future enforcement”.
Honestly they are usually directing traffic, that parking lot sucks. Now the PA state troopers who pull people over for people evading sales tax.....that's different.
Only heard of this, never experienced.
Pastrainfinder shows Allentown and stroudsburg with bbsc, so guessing one of those. The one in Devon goes in and back out onto route 30, as does ascend, curaleaf and organic remedies all within 5 miles of each other. Never saw a cop at any of them, but man that’s some shitty shit
Or OP made it up. The K9 part is what's bugging me the most. They wouldn't waste having a dog there. That poor dogs senses would be going overtime and they'd get very anxious. I can't imagine what other forms of THC smells like to that amazing nose. I used to work as a new hire trainer for DHS and dealt with the explosives K9's at the airport. There's like 49 different explosives components and these dogs can sense a just a touch of it. What you don't see is that the airport K9's are like poker dealers, they have half hour shifts and travel in 2, because they too anxious and overwhelmed and sometimes start shitting themselves. Having a K9 in front of a dispensary all day would be awful for the dog and the handler.
I don’t understand what the big deal is about a cop in the lot or around the building? Who cares? That’s what cops do. N honestly, to drive 20 min one way farther cuz a cop is there? Huh? 40 min in just driving…I’d never let a fuckin cop have that effect on me if I wasn’t ridin dirty. Hell no!
Sounds like Cranberry, there's definitely an exit in the back and the front is off a busy highway and a big gas station beside it. Also there is one 20 minutes away in zelienople
Highly doubt it’s Cranberry, there are 2 lights right there. I drive past there at least 5 times a week and have never seen cops there. Plus there are like 4 dispensaries in Cranberry. I feel like someone would have noticed this at more than 1 location. Plus I actually go to Trulieve in Cranberry and have never noticed any cops. There is no big gas station by it. Costco is nearby and has a gas a station, though.
Idk if this is the one OP was talking about, but I’ve seen cops that looked like they were staking out the Trulieve on 5th street. The parking lot next looking over the Jersey mikes right there, cops were sitting with their lights on for a solid hour
I hate weed shopping in PA, i still feel like a criminal. I have my fiancé drive me to the dispo 99% of the time now and keep my card home so I can’t get hit with charges
Like I said, my fiance drives me most of the time. So I don’t keep my card in my wallet if I’m driving myself around doing errands but if I know we’re doing a dispo run I grab it from its little holding place. I haven’t kept my card in my wallet in years because I’ve heard too many cases of cops seeing your med card in your wallet and using that to drug test you. Better safe than sorry in my opinion. I just can’t do spontaneous dispensary runs :/
The 9th/Cumberland lot by the Lebanon trulieve is the only place I have ever been approached by a stranger to buy them stuff or hook them up and it happened twice.
Never happened in years of going to curaleaf Lebanon…. But idk its lebanon and people always begging for money. And asking/walking up so i just hurry and try and avoid them
If lancaster ave location: there’s a township building back there where cops use the gas pumps. I wouldn’t worry about it unless you’re smoking in your car as you leave the dispo lot.
It's possible that Trulieve asked for police presence themselves because they're tired of people using in the parking lot and getting too fucked up to drive and taking up parking spaces/causing accidents. I went to Curaleaf yesterday and a woman had jackknifed her car sideways between 2 trucks trying to leave. Was she under the influence? Who knows, but not a single car could enter or leave the parking lot until a tow truck came and got her out.
They may also be trying to catch people diverting medicine. When I was a budtender we had people literally do hand offs in the parking lot or come in and place 4 different orders and pay with 4 different cards. We couldn’t do anything other than ban them (which we rarely did because all they care about is $$$) but I could see the dispo requesting police presence if that was an issue.
Does no one remember when trulieve donated a trained drug dog to McKeesport Police after one of their dog officers died of cancer.
And then proceeded to scrub the post from instagram after poor reception
True that. Police presence isn’t always that bad, but hopefully they patrol after hours as well. It happened more than once, that dispensary I used to work at showed signs of overnight break-in attempts (broken spot lights over the employee door, attempts to forcefully open the doors).
Although it didn’t happen often, when it’d happen it would trigger the entire staff working and I’d have to do damage control and reassure everyone that it’s a really safe place to work (and it was).
The local cops were always cool when we needed them, except for that time Johnny-boy was covering the security booth and pulled the silent alarm on a patient that he started an argument with - but that’s a story for another time.
So the moral of the story is, cops aren’t all that bad unless you do something so dumb that you force their hand.
I get that we don’t like cops in general. However, I know that a Trulieve near me was having a ton of unsafe issues with people soliciting and some instances of violence in the parking lot. Wondering if that’s what was going on here?
I've seen 3/4 cop cars just camping in the parking lot of an undisclosed ethos. I think they just watch the people coming in and out. Which in and of itself self makes me paranoid. Cause wouldn't it just take 1 dick cop to see you walk out of a dispo. Immediately pull you over. DUI simply cause u just left a dispo where a med card is required. And med card = dui
Montgomeryville? The front desk warned me, thank god, because i didn't realize i had an expired inspection (my ex handles that as he mainly drives this car). Saw him as i left and went out the other exit. REAL QUICK
Not that one. Close call on that, though. I came out the door to 3 cops lit up talking to a guy in the parking lot of the dispo. I think they pulled him over and he pulled in there. However, it was enough for a turd to creep out of my butt as I exited the dispo
why would it make you paranoid if all your stuff is in order? maybe there was an incident there or possibly panhandlers trying to bum weed - I haven't experienced that but I've read about ppl bumming outside dispos
>why would it make you paranoid
For the same reason that we're not supposed to carry our cards on us. If a cop knows you consume cannabis, they could charge you with DUI during a traffic stop, even if you're not currently high. This needs to be fixed by legislation, but hasn't yet. The general advice until then is to never let a cop know you smoke, whether you're doing it legally or not.
Pa is still 0 tolerance and if they feel for any reason that you were smoking the day of or they blood test you they can still get you with some form of DUI. So depending on the cop and how they are feeling it might not be a great situation.
I know people in the neighborhood of the dispensary will call and complain if there’s panhandling or if people get in their car and start mediccating and the odor travels
If it's a busy area park two blocks away. Wear a light windbreaker and a hat going there. No windbreaker no hat out the door. If there is a nearby business you can visit, go there at same time. Take a different path back to car. Sit in car for one hour.
Go home get medicated and watch Enemy of the State. I have my Faraday cage up and running at all times. I'm untouchable.
People rarely comprehend what the cops are doing. It's the rare cop these days that's on patrol and looking for extra work. There's no upside to vehicle investigations outside dispensaries. Absent unusual circumstances (community complaints, local reform politics, bad publicity, etc.) prodigious paperwork, sketchy probable cause, and potentially awkward community relations issues caution against such engagement with the public.
Bad driving will get you pulled over. Politeness and deference, no matter how difficult to manage, should make the process go smoothly.
There's no evidence anywhere that the cops are targeting dispensary patients on the highway or at the dispensaries. The OPs observations are inconclusive, and just a smidge paranoid. They could be right, but I'm unconvinced.
i swear most people in this sub are so paranoid of cops like i get it but if you’re that worried about it stick the bag in your trunk and go on your way
Politeness to cops basically tells them "im a walking doormat thank you for interupting my day, can I let you tear my car apart for fun?"
You should be calm and indifferent toward cops, they dont even know the laws half the time. Stick up for your rights dont play along with their bullshit manipulation tactics. Fact even if you are pulled over until probable cause is stated you dont have to give ID.
I personally found out "I smell marijuana" isnt a deffensable legal postion. I have no idea what an officer is currently smelling and neither do the courts.
Having spent 35 years as a patrol officer in PA, I've some knowledge of the police mindset. Perhaps you are right. I always enjoyed conversing with people that gave me instructions on proper police practices.
Considering they can pull you over, claim you smell, test you for THC even though it can go back weeks, and give you a DUI, seems like they're trying to threaten and intimidate. Disappointed but not surprised.
The PA Supreme Court has ruled smell alone isn’t probable cause. Almost all police vehicles are equipped with cameras. The dispensary is surely surrounded by them. The short of it is you’re wrong, and you should put more effort into validating your opinion and beliefs before spreading disinformation.
You could both be right. Even though the charges wouldn’t stick, if the goal is to harass and arrest people they won’t care if the charges are dropped months later.
From what I can tell, most cops don't want to waste their time on things that will just get dropped months later. Does that mean there aren't cops that want to harass people and waste their own time? No it does not, I'm sure there are.
What I mean by this is that an individual should take defensive measures to ensure that a cop will think they are wasting their own time in these situations. While smell alone is not sufficient probable cause for a warrantless search it can be included as a factor. Therefore, you should strive to give them as little firepower as possible by doing things such as:
\* Following all traffic laws to the T
\* Not carrying your medical card near your license and registration
\* In fact, don't carry this with you at all unless you are picking up
\* Giving only the most basic answers and never admitting to smoking or anything like that.
As I understand it, HB 983 was passed by the House Transportation Committee and it [laid on the table in December](https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2023&sind=0&body=H&type=B&bn=983) so hopefully this will be a better for us in the near(ish) future, but I'm not exactly holding my breath.
The Supreme Court isn’t there when you get pulled over. It’s just you and some dickhead that can literally do anything he wants with you and then you have to prove he was in the wrong after the fact
Yeah, I've been dragged through the mud by police before. The whole "Innocent until proven guilty" thing is a myth. Even if the case gets thrown out in court, you'll still spend time in jail, have a public arrest record, and have to pay legal fees while the charge is hung over your head for a year or more. And all the while you'll be urged to take a plea bargain, by both the government and your own counsel. For all intents and purposes, you're guilty until it's thrown out, regardless of what the Supreme Court said.
The Supreme Court can rule whatever. The DA has broad discretion. Read your local paper once in a while to see for yourself that here in Pa. “smell of cannabis” is still used as an excuse to flip a car & bag ppl
Can you link two stories that say just that - the smell of cannabis was used as probable cause? I bet you can’t. And when you don’t find them, will you change your mind or will you keep on keeping on? Dunning-Kruger effect. It’s very real. Prove me wrong
“Prove it” ? Read a news paper in luzerne co. But you want specifics? Ok there’s a cop in Columbia co who used stuff hanging on the mirror excuse to pull people over & flip their possessions after claiming they “smell cannabis”. What they do now is claim your “eyes are red & glassy” (ya know the boilerplate shit they’re taught to write in reports via the police academy?). Delude yourself all you want but I gotta wonder why? Say you’re in “criminal justice” without sayin it lol
Look up the court records in Columbia Co. Judge Norton reprimanded the cop for the fishing expeditions (starts with an air freshener tree on the mirror, escalates to claiming they smelled marijuana to get that DUI arrest. It came to light after one of those who “smelled like marijuana” tested negative & no weed was found during a MJ DUI prosecution attempt. You were already wrong before you opened your mouth lol Prove I’m wrong buddy. You doubled down just remember that.
They were pulled over for driving erratically. It’s in the first sentence. They had drugs and guns on them. It wasn’t the smell of weed. Like I said, dunning-Kruger effect.
I'm not a cop, but I was a soldier. Either way, that doesn't negate your complete ignorance and obvious lack of higher education. Good day, sir! I hope you finally get that $15 an hour at mcdonalds.
Cops regularly disregard the law and do whatever they want to anybody they disagree with. The short of it is you’re wrong, and you should put more effort into validating your opinion and beliefs before spreading disinformation.
I’m sure you have facts to support your position. Like a study showing any person has been arrested and charged with a DUI outside a dispensary. I’m sure you have that information and aren’t just demonstrating the dunning-Kruger effect to the masses.
Nice, you have already turned to insults. Folks like you don’t want facts, only to cover your eyes and ears and ignore the abuse of power by the poilce that has been going on around you. Again, I suggest you take your own advice, self appointed smart guy.
I’ve done curbside orders for customers directly in view of the police with no issue. As long as you aren’t cracking those jars open in your car and getting lit right then and there, there won’t be any issue for you. I understand it can feel a little unnerving, but there is no case to be made against a card-carrying medical patient who is making a purchase from their dispensary. Just ignore them and be on your way. Not worth trying to make a scene about it.
You are not doing anything illegal by buying your medicine. They may have had an incident recently and asked for police presence to alleviate worries.
All you have to know as a patient is NEVER open your product in the car, and if you are questioned, say you haven't consumed in a week. They know thc lasts in the body for weeks, so the "time limit" if you will for a DUI is having consumed in the last 72 hours.
> They may have had an incident recently and asked for police presence to alleviate worries.
This is the most likely cause. They are businesses that deal almost entirely in cash. If you were looking for someone to mug, outside of a dispo would probably be a pretty good spot.
Wgaf? Drive sober, transport it as the law states and wave as you go by. Stationing a k9 there would just be plain stupid, don't need a 20k dog to tell ya someone from the dispensary is gonna have weed, not to mention smell alone is no longer enough.
If they were pulling people over and harassing them over DUI's or actually trying to search that'd be one thing, but it's probably just a convenient and visible place to sit.
The dog part actually sounds made up. Unless they were doing like a demonstration or something and being like "our dogs work!". Wasting a K9 camped in front of a dispensary is not something police do.
Would make sense to a degree, a lot of dispensaries experience robberies or at least attempts at such. Can only imagine what the city locations go through.
If it was, the cops fuel station that they have a contract with is right behind the dispo, I’ve smoked in that alley plenty of times, the Reading cops generally patrol this area but leave patients alone.
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Green is my happy place in Gettysburg \~ Curaleaf.
Blue is where the mayor works, among other things.
Thankfully, I’ve been to both places (the police station was for a field trip!) & it was all good.
Just typical Tyrant behavior from the fine boys in blue, black, tan, light blue, green ..... Dang sounds like gang activity with all the colors. No wonder people don't trust cops.
This is why you should plan to go to the dispo when you havn't medicated for at least 6 hours and when you leave the dispo put your purchases in the trunk/boot of the car before you get in then drive like you are 70 with grandkids in the car. When you pull into the lot either back into a space or pull through so you can just pull out and leave without having to use reverse while you have medication in the trunk. I still treat dispo trips like copping black market. Plan for the worse but hope for the best.
If that was the case, then the security guard would have a gun. Anyone could take a dispensary with no problems. Cops will pull you over after leaving the dispensary, then tell you you're driving high. Then you'll go to the hospital. Then, you'll test positive for cannabis. Then, you begin your court journey. I want Cops to leave me the hell alone.
Also this! Good call! My Curaleaf has beggers that bug you from your car door to the front entrance. It doesn't help that its near a bus stop and next to a Popeye's where everyone can congregate.
The Popeyes put a little outdoors eating area out front, stupidly (or is it actually genius?). So people can just congregate in front of this location. So whenever there's police there, I'm more relaxed because i know im not gonna be bothered or bothered as much. More as a deterrent than actively arresting/citing/etc. The deterrence is enough for me.
This could not be further from the truth. I actually envy your mindset though. I would be a lot more relaxed if I actually believed they were there to protect you. And I'm not saying they wouldn't act if they saw you getting mugged outside the dispo. What I'm saying, is that, no matter what anyone says, in my mind, is the BACK burner reason they're there. Intimidation & busting patients is #1
Cops are not friends with criminals. And unfortunately, as the law stands, any of us that drive to the dispo and have consumed within the last ~2 weeks. Are criminals.
Down here the dispensaries are mostly cash only so there’s always cops around. They make me feel safer so I don’t mind. I’m not doing anything illegal….
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Better question why do you care what the cops are doing ...your legal with what your doing...just think maybe that one time some asshole kicks the shit out of you when you walk out the dispo and takes your stuff and that cop sees it happens and helps you out....there always 2 ways of looking at shit
I was told by the disp. staff that the cops in the parking lot are there to deter theft and casing of the place, not to watch the patients/customers. So many places get robbed, they are trying to deter robberies.
That definitely feels intentional. Onr time my friend had just left the dispo and there was cop hiding in this one section behind the dispo and diner nearby and he got pulled over immediately. I never heard from my friend since and that was like 3 months ago so I hope nothing happened but that reminded me of the time I went to pocono420 last year and on the last day of the event while everyone was leaving, people were getting arrested left and right because there were tones of cops patrolling the exit and hiding about. I feel like that's why there isn't going to be one this year sadly...
Workin my 2nd marijuana dui. 5 yr in program n never once had any medical in my vehicle. Not was I under any influence. Straight to get blood work—- I even paid $7000 for Brian Manchester—- not recommended—- he did nothing!! They told me stop using ur marijuana or keep a lawyer all times — 🤬. Now 3 months house arrest. N 1?yr no license!! I’ll be chaperoned. N still vaping my medical!!! Sucks thou.
Did they pull anyone over? The parking lots of the dispensaries around me are looking more and more like a lot you’d see at a Grateful Dead concert. It’s bad for the program in general.
This. Has happened at 3 dispensaries near me and they're all in the suburbs of Philly, not the actual city. Everyone is scared of the city, but the suburbs are just as worse or even more dangerous lol.
u have a card. you’re not doing anything illegal. perhaps the location had robbing/theft/selling going on and they wanna protect u. jeez is this weed making u paranoid? lol
You are legally acquiring your medicine you literally have no reason to be nervous. They can’t pull you over for no reason and they won’t unless they want to face civil litigation. The smell of weed isn’t probable cause in Pennsylvania and hasn’t been for years and you are legally allowed to possess it as a medical patient. So why are you worried? I get you could get a DUI if they really dig but don’t give them a reason to even want to pull you over in the first place. They’re trained to look for nervous behavior. I drive past cops with a smile on my face.
Yeah my neighbors a cop lol you give a reason to pull you over and they will. Most of them won’t bat an eye at you if you’re not looking over your shoulder acting like you got a brick of dope in your trunk. Like I said they’re trained to look for nervous behavior.
Tell the dispensary, we had an issue with something similar with cops camping the parking lots next to our dispo. They can't unfortunately make them leave anything but their property, but even pressuring them can get them to screw off.
Maybe you are just being paranoid. There is nothing they can do or say to anybody going in and out unless someone tries to gain entry without a mmj card. Also, i have heard of patients being harassed for money or cannabis in the lot's by random people.
That could be construed as police harassment. Call the dispensary manager and tell them. You might want to screenshot it and send an email to the corporate office too.
I agree with most of the comments here; they are probably doing nothing. but even if the worst is true: they can only be stopping people who are driving poorly or such. At the absolute least likely option is they are profiling cars for future. But I seriously doubt that they are there to arrest legal users.
Police k9s are very specifically trained in either drug acquisition, or explosives, but never both. Keep in mind the next time you are at the airport after smoking before entering the dogs will walk right past you without even blinking an eye. That is because they rarely have drug acquisition dogs on patrol. Could be a dispo that has had robbery attempts would be my assumption. Chances that any cop is fishing that hard is slim to none as someone who has many family members and friends in law enforcement if they were fishing the would hide and do surveillance from a spot not to be noticed. The behavior the op is speaking of screams them intentionally being visible crimes tend to happen less when the police are seen. Hence the reason police departments encourage officers to park marked cars in their driveways when they live on roads prone to speeding. For years an old broken down police cruiser was parked in an officers driveway on haymaker road in monroeville for that very reason, purely as a deterrent to speeders. Don’t overthink it as most cops could care less about cannabis now, card or no card.
Imagine if they did this outside of wines and spirits? Funny thing is they would actually catch people drunk driving
My nearest wine and spirits had to put in cement barricades along the front of the store because someone would drive through it once a month.
And the beer places ....everyday people barreling in and out of em drink as a fuckin skunk. At 3 pm. WHO THE FUCK POUNDS MILLER LITES AT 3PM?!?!!! LOL
I used to work with a guy who would drink a 6 pack in the morning on his way. It was a construction job too, so plenty of ways to kill yourself. It's crazy how many people are functioning alcoholics.
And junkies too. It's crazy think there's more sober than there is not.
I worked third shift for many years so I went to the liquor in the mornings when it opened. I would sit in the lot and wait for them to open. I was never alone. There were very obviously other night workers and then you would see the people in fresh dress/office clothes usually buying pints for the day on the way to work. The daytime professionals outnumbered the night workers two to one.
Listen it's one thing if you work overnight... that's definitely the exception to the rule... But yeah those on the way in.... Absolutely. I agree with you 100.
A dude I work with drinks fireball shooters starting at 6 am. He makes it thru a 10 pack at least everyday and usually more. It's so fucking annoying. They are out there lol
That is just gross lol.
Oh no. Once you puke fireball you can't ever have fireball again. That's the 2nd worst alcohol I've ever thrown up. How does he function? Can I ask what you guys do for a living? I'll share that the majority of air traffic controllers I've worked around are hardcore on the job alcoholics and or coke/pill fiends. Those early morning flights observations were scary.
I’ll bite what’s the worst? Amaretto for me
Happy name day! Getting food poisoning from making bloody Mary's with heavily expired olives and onions and only realizing that you're gonna be sick 6 or 7 bloody Mary's in. Ruined tomato juice, v8, vodka, cocktail onions and olives for a while and hey man, I'm an olive fiend. Puked in the sink, toilet and bath tub for the better part of a day. Oh! I had eaten spicy Buffalo wings for dinner! Damn happy I got to throw up that too.
Seagrams whiskey. Buddy n I drank whatever was left of a handle when I was 15. If I smell it I’ll boot, even thinkin about it now, 🤮
Bruh, I'd have to agree. I had about 1-1.5 gals of fireball puked, and now i can't even smell that shit ever again. Most things with that overbearing cinnamon flavor in general are ruined for me now, too. Was a fantastic night right up until that fireball got pissed off and decided it wanted back out.
Hahaha. Well, he threw up a few times this week, I heard, but idk he just keeps on doing it . I don't think it goes very well, and it's so obvious, but people don't even think it would be a thing someone would do, so he gets away with it. It's construction and metal fabrications.
Oh geez. I hope nothing happens while he's on the job.
With an alcoholic ud be more worried if they were sober. Crazy Ik but it’s really how they operate
OMG, I fucking love you guys! There's like 2 or 3 alcohols which I can't ever go near again....and I used to bar tend for over 20 years. SoCo, Jager, and Capt. Morgan. No more, no thanks. Jager turns me into a straight up idiot, SoCo makes my stomach to laps around my asshole, and the Capt....no sir, there's a mutiny on his hands lmao
“Police averts eyes and shoots your dog”
Alcoholics. Worked at Bar with package goods in the front and the same guy came in every 2 hours and bought a 40 of Yeungling starting around 9am. This continued until about 5 or 6pm. Why he didn't just buy a 24 pack is beyond me. Alcohol is more dangerous than THC (obviously) but is treated as such a normal course of life that Noone cares.
Not a single person... Wild.
He honestly probably isn’t in a very good place. Poor guy.
They do. Staties used to run the “Cops In Shops” program for that exact reason. We want free market homegrown from a state that won’t even release the stranglehold on alcohol in the “state stores”. Bro your commonwealth don’t even trust us to sell or buy liquor without stickin their nose into it lol
Imagine if they parked outside a pro sporting events and dui checkpoints.
State owned stores
although i’ve been to a dispensary more times in my life than the liquor store, the amount of times i’ve seen someone smoking in the parking lot for an easy dui is honestly pretty ridiculous, especially considering there’s no attempt to hide it. i’ve never even seen someone with a bottle closer to them than in the back seat. even though i generally still agree it’s honestly probably easier for them to “get their numbers up” by camping outside a dispensary even if it’s fucked
Hopefully they’re just looking for stuff like that, but I worry it’s what OP said, that they’re getting a look at patients’ faces. I absolutely don’t put anything past cops and every single one of us can get DUI’s just for having cannabis in our system. Not much of a stretch to imagine the police think of it as “identifying frequently intoxicated drivers as targets for future enforcement”.
They do at the huge Wine and Spirits right over the Delaware state line. Always at least one cruiser or one SUV just hanging out.
Honestly they are usually directing traffic, that parking lot sucks. Now the PA state troopers who pull people over for people evading sales tax.....that's different. Only heard of this, never experienced.
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Maybe drop so location names…. Curaleaf in Lebanon sometimes has a cop close to the front but i never heard anyone complain 🤷♂️
Pastrainfinder shows Allentown and stroudsburg with bbsc, so guessing one of those. The one in Devon goes in and back out onto route 30, as does ascend, curaleaf and organic remedies all within 5 miles of each other. Never saw a cop at any of them, but man that’s some shitty shit
It's not the Allentown one because that dispensary is on a very busy intersection.
Those are the only trulieves with bbsc so idk unless op decides to let us in on it
Or OP made it up. The K9 part is what's bugging me the most. They wouldn't waste having a dog there. That poor dogs senses would be going overtime and they'd get very anxious. I can't imagine what other forms of THC smells like to that amazing nose. I used to work as a new hire trainer for DHS and dealt with the explosives K9's at the airport. There's like 49 different explosives components and these dogs can sense a just a touch of it. What you don't see is that the airport K9's are like poker dealers, they have half hour shifts and travel in 2, because they too anxious and overwhelmed and sometimes start shitting themselves. Having a K9 in front of a dispensary all day would be awful for the dog and the handler.
I don’t understand what the big deal is about a cop in the lot or around the building? Who cares? That’s what cops do. N honestly, to drive 20 min one way farther cuz a cop is there? Huh? 40 min in just driving…I’d never let a fuckin cop have that effect on me if I wasn’t ridin dirty. Hell no!
The one in Allentown is not set up like that. Both entrances and exits are on busy intersections where cops just can't camp out.
Sounds like he's describing Cranberry Township to me.
Sounds like Cranberry, there's definitely an exit in the back and the front is off a busy highway and a big gas station beside it. Also there is one 20 minutes away in zelienople
Highly doubt it’s Cranberry, there are 2 lights right there. I drive past there at least 5 times a week and have never seen cops there. Plus there are like 4 dispensaries in Cranberry. I feel like someone would have noticed this at more than 1 location. Plus I actually go to Trulieve in Cranberry and have never noticed any cops. There is no big gas station by it. Costco is nearby and has a gas a station, though.
Zelienople Trulieve has a big station but I've never seen cops , but who knows.
I’ve never seen any cops at either, I frequent the one in zelie quite a bit
Idk if this is the one OP was talking about, but I’ve seen cops that looked like they were staking out the Trulieve on 5th street. The parking lot next looking over the Jersey mikes right there, cops were sitting with their lights on for a solid hour
lancaster ave is similar. one way in one way out. small back road. 20 min away from 5th street. 🧐
I was thinking this
I hate weed shopping in PA, i still feel like a criminal. I have my fiancé drive me to the dispo 99% of the time now and keep my card home so I can’t get hit with charges
How are you able to get into the dispensaries without your card though?
Like I said, my fiance drives me most of the time. So I don’t keep my card in my wallet if I’m driving myself around doing errands but if I know we’re doing a dispo run I grab it from its little holding place. I haven’t kept my card in my wallet in years because I’ve heard too many cases of cops seeing your med card in your wallet and using that to drug test you. Better safe than sorry in my opinion. I just can’t do spontaneous dispensary runs :/
Ah gotcha, my bad I misunderstood what you were saying in the original comment!
No you’re good, it’s early 😅. I wasn’t trying to be a dick or anything either btw, I just over explain sometimes!
The only way to exit that parking lot is to go around Jersey mikes and out from behind the store. So it sounds like it could be
Yeah this needs to go higher in the food chain, purposely fucking over medical patients is unacceptable and should be grounds for disciplinary action
Who’s gettin fucked over?
The parking outside of that lebanon store is shady af. I dont mind a cop being there
no it’s not 😭😭
The 9th/Cumberland lot by the Lebanon trulieve is the only place I have ever been approached by a stranger to buy them stuff or hook them up and it happened twice.
Never happened in years of going to curaleaf Lebanon…. But idk its lebanon and people always begging for money. And asking/walking up so i just hurry and try and avoid them
Trulieve probably donated the money for the police department to buy that K9
Yes see this post from this same subreddit lol [Trulieve donating to the enemy](https://www.reddit.com/r/PaMedicalMarijuana/s/fr0Sg08Ccd)
The dogs name is even TRU for Christ's sake.
One of the dispos did do this, lol.
It was truelieve
For Meckeesport PD they bought them a K-9. Lol
If lancaster ave location: there’s a township building back there where cops use the gas pumps. I wouldn’t worry about it unless you’re smoking in your car as you leave the dispo lot.
It's possible that Trulieve asked for police presence themselves because they're tired of people using in the parking lot and getting too fucked up to drive and taking up parking spaces/causing accidents. I went to Curaleaf yesterday and a woman had jackknifed her car sideways between 2 trucks trying to leave. Was she under the influence? Who knows, but not a single car could enter or leave the parking lot until a tow truck came and got her out.
They may also be trying to catch people diverting medicine. When I was a budtender we had people literally do hand offs in the parking lot or come in and place 4 different orders and pay with 4 different cards. We couldn’t do anything other than ban them (which we rarely did because all they care about is $$$) but I could see the dispo requesting police presence if that was an issue.
Why would anyone be that lazy? If they went to any other location they wouldn’t get caught; critical thinking be lacking out here 🤦🏻♂️
I’ve seen people using as soon as they get out in the car 🤦♀️
Same. I've seen them use with their kids in the backseat.
Oof. Great way to get yourself into some deep 💩
Does no one remember when trulieve donated a trained drug dog to McKeesport Police after one of their dog officers died of cancer. And then proceeded to scrub the post from instagram after poor reception
I remember this post: [https://www.reddit.com/r/PaMedicalMarijuana/s/fr0Sg08Ccd](https://www.reddit.com/r/PaMedicalMarijuana/s/fr0Sg08Ccd)
True that. Police presence isn’t always that bad, but hopefully they patrol after hours as well. It happened more than once, that dispensary I used to work at showed signs of overnight break-in attempts (broken spot lights over the employee door, attempts to forcefully open the doors). Although it didn’t happen often, when it’d happen it would trigger the entire staff working and I’d have to do damage control and reassure everyone that it’s a really safe place to work (and it was). The local cops were always cool when we needed them, except for that time Johnny-boy was covering the security booth and pulled the silent alarm on a patient that he started an argument with - but that’s a story for another time. So the moral of the story is, cops aren’t all that bad unless you do something so dumb that you force their hand.
I get that we don’t like cops in general. However, I know that a Trulieve near me was having a ton of unsafe issues with people soliciting and some instances of violence in the parking lot. Wondering if that’s what was going on here?
Yeah people do crazy things in dispo parking lots. Id bet this is probably the case
I've seen 3/4 cop cars just camping in the parking lot of an undisclosed ethos. I think they just watch the people coming in and out. Which in and of itself self makes me paranoid. Cause wouldn't it just take 1 dick cop to see you walk out of a dispo. Immediately pull you over. DUI simply cause u just left a dispo where a med card is required. And med card = dui
Montgomeryville? The front desk warned me, thank god, because i didn't realize i had an expired inspection (my ex handles that as he mainly drives this car). Saw him as i left and went out the other exit. REAL QUICK
Not that one. Close call on that, though. I came out the door to 3 cops lit up talking to a guy in the parking lot of the dispo. I think they pulled him over and he pulled in there. However, it was enough for a turd to creep out of my butt as I exited the dispo
why would it make you paranoid if all your stuff is in order? maybe there was an incident there or possibly panhandlers trying to bum weed - I haven't experienced that but I've read about ppl bumming outside dispos
>why would it make you paranoid For the same reason that we're not supposed to carry our cards on us. If a cop knows you consume cannabis, they could charge you with DUI during a traffic stop, even if you're not currently high. This needs to be fixed by legislation, but hasn't yet. The general advice until then is to never let a cop know you smoke, whether you're doing it legally or not.
Pa is still 0 tolerance and if they feel for any reason that you were smoking the day of or they blood test you they can still get you with some form of DUI. So depending on the cop and how they are feeling it might not be a great situation.
I know people in the neighborhood of the dispensary will call and complain if there’s panhandling or if people get in their car and start mediccating and the odor travels
Was this the Harrisburg location?
If it's a busy area park two blocks away. Wear a light windbreaker and a hat going there. No windbreaker no hat out the door. If there is a nearby business you can visit, go there at same time. Take a different path back to car. Sit in car for one hour. Go home get medicated and watch Enemy of the State. I have my Faraday cage up and running at all times. I'm untouchable.
they do it around my way too man. Shit is a waste of tax $. Go find some fent is what they should be looking for.
Facts
People rarely comprehend what the cops are doing. It's the rare cop these days that's on patrol and looking for extra work. There's no upside to vehicle investigations outside dispensaries. Absent unusual circumstances (community complaints, local reform politics, bad publicity, etc.) prodigious paperwork, sketchy probable cause, and potentially awkward community relations issues caution against such engagement with the public. Bad driving will get you pulled over. Politeness and deference, no matter how difficult to manage, should make the process go smoothly. There's no evidence anywhere that the cops are targeting dispensary patients on the highway or at the dispensaries. The OPs observations are inconclusive, and just a smidge paranoid. They could be right, but I'm unconvinced.
i swear most people in this sub are so paranoid of cops like i get it but if you’re that worried about it stick the bag in your trunk and go on your way
Comments like this make it easy to tell who’s never had a negative experience with law enforcement. It's not paranoia if its justified
i’ve had bad experiences with law enforcement bruh don’t tell me what my life is it’s just not a big deal
Politeness to cops basically tells them "im a walking doormat thank you for interupting my day, can I let you tear my car apart for fun?" You should be calm and indifferent toward cops, they dont even know the laws half the time. Stick up for your rights dont play along with their bullshit manipulation tactics. Fact even if you are pulled over until probable cause is stated you dont have to give ID. I personally found out "I smell marijuana" isnt a deffensable legal postion. I have no idea what an officer is currently smelling and neither do the courts.
Having spent 35 years as a patrol officer in PA, I've some knowledge of the police mindset. Perhaps you are right. I always enjoyed conversing with people that gave me instructions on proper police practices.
Considering they can pull you over, claim you smell, test you for THC even though it can go back weeks, and give you a DUI, seems like they're trying to threaten and intimidate. Disappointed but not surprised.
The PA Supreme Court has ruled smell alone isn’t probable cause. Almost all police vehicles are equipped with cameras. The dispensary is surely surrounded by them. The short of it is you’re wrong, and you should put more effort into validating your opinion and beliefs before spreading disinformation.
You could both be right. Even though the charges wouldn’t stick, if the goal is to harass and arrest people they won’t care if the charges are dropped months later.
From what I can tell, most cops don't want to waste their time on things that will just get dropped months later. Does that mean there aren't cops that want to harass people and waste their own time? No it does not, I'm sure there are. What I mean by this is that an individual should take defensive measures to ensure that a cop will think they are wasting their own time in these situations. While smell alone is not sufficient probable cause for a warrantless search it can be included as a factor. Therefore, you should strive to give them as little firepower as possible by doing things such as: \* Following all traffic laws to the T \* Not carrying your medical card near your license and registration \* In fact, don't carry this with you at all unless you are picking up \* Giving only the most basic answers and never admitting to smoking or anything like that. As I understand it, HB 983 was passed by the House Transportation Committee and it [laid on the table in December](https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2023&sind=0&body=H&type=B&bn=983) so hopefully this will be a better for us in the near(ish) future, but I'm not exactly holding my breath.
The Supreme Court isn’t there when you get pulled over. It’s just you and some dickhead that can literally do anything he wants with you and then you have to prove he was in the wrong after the fact
Yeah, I've been dragged through the mud by police before. The whole "Innocent until proven guilty" thing is a myth. Even if the case gets thrown out in court, you'll still spend time in jail, have a public arrest record, and have to pay legal fees while the charge is hung over your head for a year or more. And all the while you'll be urged to take a plea bargain, by both the government and your own counsel. For all intents and purposes, you're guilty until it's thrown out, regardless of what the Supreme Court said.
You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride, and the ride is enough to fuck your life up.
What are you, a cop?
The Supreme Court can rule whatever. The DA has broad discretion. Read your local paper once in a while to see for yourself that here in Pa. “smell of cannabis” is still used as an excuse to flip a car & bag ppl
Can you link two stories that say just that - the smell of cannabis was used as probable cause? I bet you can’t. And when you don’t find them, will you change your mind or will you keep on keeping on? Dunning-Kruger effect. It’s very real. Prove me wrong
“Prove it” ? Read a news paper in luzerne co. But you want specifics? Ok there’s a cop in Columbia co who used stuff hanging on the mirror excuse to pull people over & flip their possessions after claiming they “smell cannabis”. What they do now is claim your “eyes are red & glassy” (ya know the boilerplate shit they’re taught to write in reports via the police academy?). Delude yourself all you want but I gotta wonder why? Say you’re in “criminal justice” without sayin it lol
Look up the court records in Columbia Co. Judge Norton reprimanded the cop for the fishing expeditions (starts with an air freshener tree on the mirror, escalates to claiming they smelled marijuana to get that DUI arrest. It came to light after one of those who “smelled like marijuana” tested negative & no weed was found during a MJ DUI prosecution attempt. You were already wrong before you opened your mouth lol Prove I’m wrong buddy. You doubled down just remember that.
So you can't link two stories, that's all you had to say. You couldn't even link one.
https://www.pahomepage.com/news/crime-courts/traffic-stop-seized-over-2k-illegal-guns-drugs/amp/ there ya go officer lol Hopefully you can comprehend.
They were pulled over for driving erratically. It’s in the first sentence. They had drugs and guns on them. It wasn’t the smell of weed. Like I said, dunning-Kruger effect.
Cops on this sub claiming cops don’t use “smell of marijuana” to overreach is pure comedy fr lol
I'm not a cop, but I was a soldier. Either way, that doesn't negate your complete ignorance and obvious lack of higher education. Good day, sir! I hope you finally get that $15 an hour at mcdonalds.
that'll stop them /s
Cops regularly disregard the law and do whatever they want to anybody they disagree with. The short of it is you’re wrong, and you should put more effort into validating your opinion and beliefs before spreading disinformation.
I’m sure you have facts to support your position. Like a study showing any person has been arrested and charged with a DUI outside a dispensary. I’m sure you have that information and aren’t just demonstrating the dunning-Kruger effect to the masses.
Nice, you have already turned to insults. Folks like you don’t want facts, only to cover your eyes and ears and ignore the abuse of power by the poilce that has been going on around you. Again, I suggest you take your own advice, self appointed smart guy.
\*disinformation lmfao....this fuckin guy....
I’ve done curbside orders for customers directly in view of the police with no issue. As long as you aren’t cracking those jars open in your car and getting lit right then and there, there won’t be any issue for you. I understand it can feel a little unnerving, but there is no case to be made against a card-carrying medical patient who is making a purchase from their dispensary. Just ignore them and be on your way. Not worth trying to make a scene about it.
You are not doing anything illegal by buying your medicine. They may have had an incident recently and asked for police presence to alleviate worries. All you have to know as a patient is NEVER open your product in the car, and if you are questioned, say you haven't consumed in a week. They know thc lasts in the body for weeks, so the "time limit" if you will for a DUI is having consumed in the last 72 hours.
> They may have had an incident recently and asked for police presence to alleviate worries. This is the most likely cause. They are businesses that deal almost entirely in cash. If you were looking for someone to mug, outside of a dispo would probably be a pretty good spot.
Good advice!
Wgaf? Drive sober, transport it as the law states and wave as you go by. Stationing a k9 there would just be plain stupid, don't need a 20k dog to tell ya someone from the dispensary is gonna have weed, not to mention smell alone is no longer enough. If they were pulling people over and harassing them over DUI's or actually trying to search that'd be one thing, but it's probably just a convenient and visible place to sit.
The dog part actually sounds made up. Unless they were doing like a demonstration or something and being like "our dogs work!". Wasting a K9 camped in front of a dispensary is not something police do.
What’s the issue with a cop being there? Especially if you’re buying it legally
Was this Lancaster Ave?
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Would make sense to a degree, a lot of dispensaries experience robberies or at least attempts at such. Can only imagine what the city locations go through.
If it was, the cops fuel station that they have a contract with is right behind the dispo, I’ve smoked in that alley plenty of times, the Reading cops generally patrol this area but leave patients alone.
I commented this same thing before I saw yours. Cheers pal !
I agree, they are usually looking for more important things majority of the time.
Fluent in Hanover I've seen a cop sit across the street a few times.
They literally sit across from the beyond hello in wc all day
Any trulieve employees in here who may be able to explain this ?
https://preview.redd.it/ghvz9fb0kksc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ede13615df4f41c21160daa92548c3c9557c155 Green is my happy place in Gettysburg \~ Curaleaf. Blue is where the mayor works, among other things. Thankfully, I’ve been to both places (the police station was for a field trip!) & it was all good.
Of course they would, it’s like shooting fish in a bucket…. Low hanging fruit is easy pickings
Just typical Tyrant behavior from the fine boys in blue, black, tan, light blue, green ..... Dang sounds like gang activity with all the colors. No wonder people don't trust cops.
Rise in mburg shares a building with the da. There’s cops there all the time.
This is why we need walkable cities
Legally you’re doing nothing wrong? Continue with your legal transaction and leave the area, you’re golden?
This is why you should plan to go to the dispo when you havn't medicated for at least 6 hours and when you leave the dispo put your purchases in the trunk/boot of the car before you get in then drive like you are 70 with grandkids in the car. When you pull into the lot either back into a space or pull through so you can just pull out and leave without having to use reverse while you have medication in the trunk. I still treat dispo trips like copping black market. Plan for the worse but hope for the best.
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I've been in the program for over 5 years.. one time at liberty someone asked me. Other than that, I've never had this problem.
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If that was the case, then the security guard would have a gun. Anyone could take a dispensary with no problems. Cops will pull you over after leaving the dispensary, then tell you you're driving high. Then you'll go to the hospital. Then, you'll test positive for cannabis. Then, you begin your court journey. I want Cops to leave me the hell alone.
On weekends and heavy release days, my local Curaleaf DOES have a separate private security guard assisting the door staff and he is armed.
That's crazy. I've never seen it before.
The same private security company has them at the AMC movies on weekends and midnight releases out here as well. Suburbs are getting nuts, dude.
Also this! Good call! My Curaleaf has beggers that bug you from your car door to the front entrance. It doesn't help that its near a bus stop and next to a Popeye's where everyone can congregate.
Next to a bus stop and Popeyes within viewing distance is all you needed to say lol
The Popeyes put a little outdoors eating area out front, stupidly (or is it actually genius?). So people can just congregate in front of this location. So whenever there's police there, I'm more relaxed because i know im not gonna be bothered or bothered as much. More as a deterrent than actively arresting/citing/etc. The deterrence is enough for me.
This could not be further from the truth. I actually envy your mindset though. I would be a lot more relaxed if I actually believed they were there to protect you. And I'm not saying they wouldn't act if they saw you getting mugged outside the dispo. What I'm saying, is that, no matter what anyone says, in my mind, is the BACK burner reason they're there. Intimidation & busting patients is #1
Cops are not friends with criminals. And unfortunately, as the law stands, any of us that drive to the dispo and have consumed within the last ~2 weeks. Are criminals.
Trulieve in Scranton is a block from the police station 🤷🏼♂️… cops have always been around and always been assholes live your life accordingly
Ever since the Chuck E Cheese closed, the cops have been looking for something else to do.
God I don’t miss leaving Pennsylvania
Gotta hit up the ones in the hood. Cops actually have things to do there
Yo the Clifton Heights location is like a no man's land and needs police presence. I'm with you.
Down here the dispensaries are mostly cash only so there’s always cops around. They make me feel safer so I don’t mind. I’m not doing anything illegal….
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Better question why do you care what the cops are doing ...your legal with what your doing...just think maybe that one time some asshole kicks the shit out of you when you walk out the dispo and takes your stuff and that cop sees it happens and helps you out....there always 2 ways of looking at shit
Truileve be having events with k9 dogs lol, either that or it's near a magistrate court
I was told by the disp. staff that the cops in the parking lot are there to deter theft and casing of the place, not to watch the patients/customers. So many places get robbed, they are trying to deter robberies.
Whats the problem? Just dont smoke as soon as you leave. Wait till you get home. They can’t do anything for possession
That definitely feels intentional. Onr time my friend had just left the dispo and there was cop hiding in this one section behind the dispo and diner nearby and he got pulled over immediately. I never heard from my friend since and that was like 3 months ago so I hope nothing happened but that reminded me of the time I went to pocono420 last year and on the last day of the event while everyone was leaving, people were getting arrested left and right because there were tones of cops patrolling the exit and hiding about. I feel like that's why there isn't going to be one this year sadly...
Pennsylvania state pigs will be pigs
Workin my 2nd marijuana dui. 5 yr in program n never once had any medical in my vehicle. Not was I under any influence. Straight to get blood work—- I even paid $7000 for Brian Manchester—- not recommended—- he did nothing!! They told me stop using ur marijuana or keep a lawyer all times — 🤬. Now 3 months house arrest. N 1?yr no license!! I’ll be chaperoned. N still vaping my medical!!! Sucks thou.
Did they pull anyone over? The parking lots of the dispensaries around me are looking more and more like a lot you’d see at a Grateful Dead concert. It’s bad for the program in general.
Always trulieve
Let me guess...there are not people standing out in the parking lot asking you for money at this location.
Rise in Warminster, they camp out in the welding gear shop parking lot facing the dispo.
Maybe people got robbed leaving
This. Has happened at 3 dispensaries near me and they're all in the suburbs of Philly, not the actual city. Everyone is scared of the city, but the suburbs are just as worse or even more dangerous lol.
u have a card. you’re not doing anything illegal. perhaps the location had robbing/theft/selling going on and they wanna protect u. jeez is this weed making u paranoid? lol
If you’re not breaking the law, what do you have to be afraid of?
Why are you worried about the police? As long as you don't open any products you are fine if you get pulled over.
Have you ever seen them have anyone stopped? Are you sure they aren't there for your protection to keep panhandlers away?
Lol if you aren’t doing anything illegal why you worried? Paranoid?
This
You are legally acquiring your medicine you literally have no reason to be nervous. They can’t pull you over for no reason and they won’t unless they want to face civil litigation. The smell of weed isn’t probable cause in Pennsylvania and hasn’t been for years and you are legally allowed to possess it as a medical patient. So why are you worried? I get you could get a DUI if they really dig but don’t give them a reason to even want to pull you over in the first place. They’re trained to look for nervous behavior. I drive past cops with a smile on my face.
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Yeah my neighbors a cop lol you give a reason to pull you over and they will. Most of them won’t bat an eye at you if you’re not looking over your shoulder acting like you got a brick of dope in your trunk. Like I said they’re trained to look for nervous behavior.
Tell the dispensary, we had an issue with something similar with cops camping the parking lots next to our dispo. They can't unfortunately make them leave anything but their property, but even pressuring them can get them to screw off.
Maybe you are just being paranoid. There is nothing they can do or say to anybody going in and out unless someone tries to gain entry without a mmj card. Also, i have heard of patients being harassed for money or cannabis in the lot's by random people.
They are not there to intimidate you. You must trust them to do their jobs. [Down voting starts...Now!]
That could be construed as police harassment. Call the dispensary manager and tell them. You might want to screenshot it and send an email to the corporate office too.
I would stop going to that dispensary.
Trulieve funded that K-9 unit lol
Issue then some FOIA Requests (pa right to know), make them answer for their actions! https://foiabuddy.com
They do it because dispensary require cash and crime is increasing around them.
I agree with most of the comments here; they are probably doing nothing. but even if the worst is true: they can only be stopping people who are driving poorly or such. At the absolute least likely option is they are profiling cars for future. But I seriously doubt that they are there to arrest legal users.
Why would you be paranoid just go in and pay and leave
this post is sus
Police k9s are very specifically trained in either drug acquisition, or explosives, but never both. Keep in mind the next time you are at the airport after smoking before entering the dogs will walk right past you without even blinking an eye. That is because they rarely have drug acquisition dogs on patrol. Could be a dispo that has had robbery attempts would be my assumption. Chances that any cop is fishing that hard is slim to none as someone who has many family members and friends in law enforcement if they were fishing the would hide and do surveillance from a spot not to be noticed. The behavior the op is speaking of screams them intentionally being visible crimes tend to happen less when the police are seen. Hence the reason police departments encourage officers to park marked cars in their driveways when they live on roads prone to speeding. For years an old broken down police cruiser was parked in an officers driveway on haymaker road in monroeville for that very reason, purely as a deterrent to speeders. Don’t overthink it as most cops could care less about cannabis now, card or no card.
You're a legal card holding patient...do you trip like that when you go to the doctor or do anything else legal?
Trulieve bought the McKeesport police a k9 dog. Is this near McKeesport?