When Your Meth is Actually Candy.

A woman was jailed for 3 months because police thought her cotton candy was meth.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/27/us/co...rnd/index.html

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According to the lawsuit, Fincher was a passenger in a car that was pulled over by two Monroe County Sheriff's deputies on December 31, 2016. The deputies initially said they stopped the car because they thought the tinting on the car's windows was too dark, but clarified at the scene that it was not a violation.

Okay, maybe they were searching for a reason to search the car?

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They asked the driver if they could search the vehicle and soon found "a large, open clear plastic bag which contained a light blue substance, spherical in shape," in the car's floorboards, the lawsuit says.

I don't like blaming the victim, but. Never allow the police to search your car/house/person without a warrant.

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Fincher and the driver both explained it was just a bag of blue cotton candy. But the deputies decided to test it using a field test kit, which indicated the 1.5-ounce wad of blue fluff contained methamphetamine.

Yeah, the good ol field test kit.

Eventually other tests indicated no drugs and they let her out of jail after another few weeks.

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CNN has contacted Sirchie Acquisition Company, the distributor of the drug test the officers used, but has not received a reply.

And I doubt they ever will.

Ranb

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