Police love it. A smell is invisible and leaves no record; it's impossible for a defendant to dispute that an officer thought they "detected the smell of marijuana".
This isn't going to change that very much. Now they'll pull you out for field sobriety tests and blood draws just like with the smell of alcohol.
The discretion I was talking about is where they can choose to charge one person and not another. This leads to implicit and explicit bias. It also undermines the integrity of the system. Why should I trust a system that can ruin my life with a charge and let a similar offense go with someone else? Equal protection and application of the law should be required.
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