...Or the Dog Gets It
As Illinois legislators consider legalizing recreational marijuana, police dog trainer Chad Larner offers a warning: it would be “extreme abuse” to try to retrain drug dogs not to respond to the smell of marijuana, so if weed ceases to be illegal, some of the dogs may have to be killed. Drug dogs signal their handlers when one of the smells they’ve been trained to detect is present, but they can’t say which one — and a Colorado appeals court has already ruled that in that state, which has already abolished marijuana prohibition, a canine signal that could indicate either marijuana or something illegal does not justify a further search. Elias Mendiola, of the Bloomington, Ill., police, and Steve Petrilli, of the Normal, Ill., police, say that police dogs routinely go home with their handlers upon retirement, so the fact that a dog can no longer work doesn’t mean he has to be put down. (AC/Bloomington Pantagraph) ...The idea wouldn’t even have seemed plausible if police officers hadn’t killed so many dogs on video.Original Publication Date: 03 June 2018
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
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