Falsely Accused of LSD Laced Marijuana Cookies
All I can say right now is I am so glad mankind has pushed for the technology we have today, because this news story shows exactly how someone can be completely innocent but proven guilty by the media and police - even though you did NOTHING.
I will leave out the guys name and picture because he is innocent, but this is very popular in the news at this moment.
An 18 year old male was delivering cookies for MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) - the cops claimed the cookies were “laced with LSD” and “smelled of marijuana.” So they arrested the kid, and threw him in jail.
One small problem, the lab tests indicate no drugs at all in the cookies. So now we throw people in jail because a cop “thinks” he smells marijuana on a cookie?
The major flag in all this is where did they pull out the “laced with LSD” accusation? Their “field test” consists of taking a piece of the cookies, putting it in a bag and dripping some liquid on it, if the liquid turns blue - bingo its drugs. But nowhere does it indicate “LSD or marijuana.” And if a cop “smelled” marijuana why would they tack on “laced with LSD” to the charge?
“Our officers took a good whiff and thought they smelled like marijuana,” McGuire said, adding that preliminary tests instead detected traces of LSD.
A cop’s nose is no reason to lock someone up in jail under false accusations… keyword in the above quote “thought” as in “they thought wrong.”
No cops became ill and no officer was sick from eating the cookies. They rushed to judgment on something without any real evidence and ended up locking up an innocent kid trying to do community service… which by the way, how is delivering cookies to cops considered community service? People really need to look into exactly how MADD gets its funding and how it works in regards to things like this - getting tax dollars to deliver cookies to cops? I mean come on - this money can be spent elsewhere. The last thing cops need is cookies. Especially this group of cops…
“I felt like a lot of people made a lot of assumptions about me,” Mr. Phillips said Friday during an interview near downtown Fort Worth. “A lot of facts were thrown up in the air. I got my character assassinated. I was telling the truth the whole time.
You are absolutely correct…
“I feel like the system was unfair,” he said. “Before you arrest someone and blow my name in the media, get the facts straight.”
Facts such as, whether or not the cookies actually contain either of the substances you purposefully release to the media… the police accused him of poisoning officers, and that numerous officers were sick from it… in the end we find out…
“I never put anything in those cookies,” Mr. Phillips said Friday. “I did not smoke or do any kind of marijuana around those cookies. Why would I do that?”
“Somebody said he was a terrorist,” said Glenn Phillips, a soldier in the U.S. Army who is awaiting deployment to Afghanistan next month. “I thank God for intervening here and saving my son from 20 years to life in prison.”
Again I say, thank you to the men and women of our past who have provided us with the never ending amount of technology which seems to be a citizens only defense against false arrest and imprisonment in this country for drug offense. If this guy was arrested 30 years ago, he would be in prison for 20 years because a cop used his nose instead of a science lab - and we know more often than not - a cop is wrong when it comes to things like this and the science lab prove it over and over.
NO one should be arrested in this country under false accusations, and this event shows just how easy and often it does occur.
“They did have a pungent, rancid odor,” Lt. Cain said. “They did have the odor of marijuana. I got within two feet of it; I could smell it.” How do you explain it? I don’t know,” Lt. Cain said.
I can explain it, not only are police “field tests” highly inaccurate and incorrect, the entire method of testing a substance with a liquid and a bag needs to be addressed. This is exactly why our jails are filled these days - people are thrown into jail and the tax payers are billed - meanwhile there was no crime committed and the cost of the entire ordeal will be much more costly.
Lt. Thomas Cain said Thursday that while he respects and accepts the medical examiner’s report, he is sure he smelled dope on the home-baked Toll House treats.
Not only does this police department not admit any wrong or offer an apology, they continue to perpetuate the idea that there was in fact “marijuana odor” on the cookies - with no proof officer, you are out of line and just trying to blame an innocent man for your departments inaccurate drug tests that have landed hundreds if not thousands of innocent people in prison.
There are patients around this country who would gladly accept marijuana cookies, we need to start a program for them instead of giving cops cookies on our tax dollar.