The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals recently decided that despite the state’s medical marijuana program, law enforcement can proceed as if a crime is being committed if they detect the odor of marijuana.
Tulsa World’s Samantha Vicent writes this concerns Representative Scott Fetgatter who says the decision is evidence Oklahoma has “a long way to go in working on regulations for the legal medical marijuana industry.”
Cannabis patient advocates are concerned that legal card-carrying patients will now be subject to unjust searches. Oklahoma has nearly 400,000 medical marijuana patients.
Read the Tulsa World story here.
