Ontario Police Have Launched A Massive Series Of Roadside Checks Across The Province After Marijuana

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Ontario Police have launched a large-scale traffic blitz in an effort to keep our roads safe following day one of legal marijuana. Police departments all over the province are taking road safety very seriously in the wake of legalization. Officers have set up multiple RIDE checkpoints, laid charges, and will continue to be extra vigilant on the roads this week to ensure that drivers are following the rules.

READ MORE: Ontario Police Forces Are Doing Random RIDE Checks To Crack Down On People Driving High This Week


Sgt Kerry Schmidt

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#OPP conducting #RIDEChecks on #legalizationday and everyday#DontDriveImpaired #LegalizationInCanada #CannabisAct https://www.pscp.tv/w/bpewuTFQbUtxcEpkT0pRb1l8MWxQS3FrT3ZQZ0FKYs9R5b3V4yd0tI9lsBkkZAnHZpO8s4Dz2pJg5WjqzpbA …

6:35 PM - Oct 17, 2018
Sgt Kerry Schmidt - Ontario Provincial Police @OPP_HSD
#OPP conducting #RIDEChecks on #legalizationday and everyday#DontDriveImpaired #LegalizationInCanada #CannabisAct — Innisfil, Ontario, Canada

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According to OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt, the provincial police department's RIDE check last night with Barrie Police and South Simcoe Police resulted in a number of charges.

READ MORE: The First Known Ticket Has Just Been Issued To A Canadian For Driving High After Weed Legalization

In the event that you pass through one of the many RIDE checkpoints throughout the province this week, here are some of the basic things you should do and be aware of to stay out of trouble.

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Sgt Kerry Schmidt

✔@OPP_HSD
https://twitter.com/OPP_HSD/status/1052923948122296322

“Joint”
#RIDEChecks with @SouthSimcoePS @BarriePolice @OPP_CR last night
Charges laid:
•Impaired by drug - Cannabis
•Over 80 - Alcohol
•Cannabis available to driver
•3 day suspension
•Drive Suspend

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and
#DontDriveImpaired #DriveSafe #LegalizationInCanada

10:06 AM - Oct 18, 2018
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Driving impaired

Duh, right? Well, clearly this wasn't so obvious to some Ontario drivers. Charges laid last night included driving under the influence of alcohol as well as driving under the influence of cannabis.

Driving with pot in the car

This is also a big no-no. Just like it's illegal to have alcohol inside a vehicle (aka available to the driver) it's also illegal to have pot inside a vehicle. Charges last night also included "cannabis available to driver." South Simcoe Police also a car over when an officer witnessed a passenger drinking a beer in a vehicle. Empties were found all over the inside of the car.

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South Simcoe Police

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https://twitter.com/SouthSimcoePS/status/1052726389756100608

Our sharp-eyed officer heading to a #RIDEChecks location tonight stopped a vehicle after spotting the passenger drinking a beer. Driver charged with breach of probation x2 after alcohol registered on roadside breath test. #dontdrinkanddrive #DontDriveHigh #CannabisLegalization

9:01 PM - Oct 17, 2018
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Driving while texting

Again, this is a hugely obvious one. Yet, a police blitz in Ajax has resulted in over 50 charges in the last two days. According to Durham Regional Police Services, most of the charges were for handheld devices. "When you're driving, please put your phones away!" they said in a tweet.


DurhamRegionalPolice

✔@DRPS
https://twitter.com/DRPS/status/1052945847061757952

A two-day roadway safety blitz in Ajax resulted in over 50 tickets - mostly for handheld devices. When you're driving, please put your phones away! https://bit.ly/2J5kvaD

11:33 AM - Oct 18, 2018
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Does it get any more straightforward than that? If you're reading this shaking your head, join the club! The blitz will go all the way until Sunday. So, if you don't want to get your license taken away or end up in the slammer, please be smart.

Source: Twitter
 
TacoMac

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VIANARCHRIS said:
Can't wait till they bust a patient for having weed in a car and get schooled. I don't keep my medicine in the trunk anymore than a diabetic does.
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Drama queen more.

They don't care if you have weed in the car any more than they care if you have beer or liquor in the car. They care that it's rolled in a joint, stuck behind your ear or packed in a pipe in your right hand. They care if the top of the liquor bottle is open and it's sitting in your lap or right next to you in the passenger seat.

If it's in a package in the console untouched or in a bag in the passengers seat as you go home with it, they're not going to give a damn any more than they would the 12 pack you just bought from the liquor store that's sitting there still untouched.
 
VIANARCHRIS

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TacoMac said:
Drama queen more.

They don't care if you have weed in the car any more than they care if you have beer or liquor in the car. They care that it's rolled in a joint, stuck behind your ear or packed in a pipe in your right hand. They care if the top of the liquor bottle is open and it's sitting in your lap or right next to you in the passenger seat.

If it's in a package in the console untouched or in a bag in the passengers seat as you go home with it, they're not going to give a damn any more than they would the 12 pack you just bought from the liquor store that's sitting there still untouched.
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Who you callin' a drama queen, princess? I wouldn't go there....:fire:
Didn't bother to read the article, eh?
"Just like it's illegal to have alcohol inside a vehicle (aka available to the driver) it's also illegal to have pot inside a vehicle. Charges last night also included "cannabis available to driver."
If it's in the passenger compartment, it's available to the driver.
 
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Moldy

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VIANARCHRIS said:
Who you callin' a drama queen, princess? I wouldn't go there....:fire:
Didn't bother to read the article, eh?
"Just like it's illegal to have alcohol inside a vehicle (aka available to the driver) it's also illegal to have pot inside a vehicle. Charges last night also included "cannabis available to driver."
If it's in the passenger compartment, it's available to the driver.
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In Nevada we have these child proof containers with a plastic lock on them and as long as you don't remove the weed from that container you can have it anywhere in the vehicle. I wonder why CA officials and politicians didn't check out legal states and use some of their ideas instead of acting like they were the first ones to legalize? Inventing the wheel over and over doesn't improve it, it just causes more victims. Sounds like they're being stupid on purpose.
 
VIANARCHRIS

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Moldy said:
I wonder why CA officials and politicians didn't check out legal states and use some of their ideas instead of acting like they were the first ones to legalize?
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Cause they're dumb as fuck. Why would they use a panel of cops and politicians to work out the specifics of a legal cannabis market when they had a pool of thousands with decades of experience to choose from?
 
TacoMac

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VIANARCHRIS said:
Who you callin' a drama queen, princess? I wouldn't go there....:fire:
Didn't bother to read the article, eh?
"Just like it's illegal to have alcohol inside a vehicle (aka available to the driver) it's also illegal to have pot inside a vehicle. Charges last night also included "cannabis available to driver."
If it's in the passenger compartment, it's available to the driver.
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First off, dipshit, don't use Twitter as a source. Here's the actual statement:

Cpl. Dal Hutchinson, a spokesman for the organization, said the $295 ticket was issued at 2:30 a.m. on Thursday in Dartmouth, N.S., and the cannabis was purchased from an NSLC store the evening before.

The cannabis was in an opened package on the centre console
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If that had been a liquor bottle, he would have been cited as well.

Oh...and this guy was a real winner. From the same incident:

The driver was also given another ticket for no registration and no insurance for the car.
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Don't be a fucking idiot and you wont get a ticket. It's that simple.
 
CalyxCrusher

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Moldy said:
In Nevada we have these child proof containers with a plastic lock on them and as long as you don't remove the weed from that container you can have it anywhere in the vehicle. I wonder why CA officials and politicians didn't check out legal states and use some of their ideas instead of acting like they were the first ones to legalize? Inventing the wheel over and over doesn't improve it, it just causes more victims. Sounds like they're being stupid on purpose.
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Sadly they did visit Washington, and Colorado. I guess it was just a taxpayer funded holiday
 
VIANARCHRIS

VIANARCHRIS

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TacoMac said:
First off, dipshit, don't use Twitter as a source. Here's the actual statement:



If that had been a liquor bottle, he would have been cited as well.

Oh...and this guy was a real winner. From the same incident:



Don't be a fucking idiot and you wont get a ticket. It's that simple.
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First off you fucking knob, don't fucking come on here calling me names. Bitch. If you can't disagree without being a dick, maybe you should just shut your mouth.
Second even if it is in an unopened package you can be charged with it being accessible to the driver. If you want to avoid the bullshit, keep it in your trunk. There are radio ads by the police departments telling us that very thing. Was your interpretation really worth you acting like a tool?
 
TacoMac

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VIANARCHRIS said:
If you can't disagree without being a dick, maybe you should just shut your mouth.
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Really? Let's review, dipshit:

VIANARCHRIS said:
Who you callin' a drama queen, princess?
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So that makes you not only a fucking moron, but a hypocrite.

Simple fact is, if the guy had not opened the package, had left it in a bag in the passenger seat or back seat, he would have been fine. Officers have this thing you're unaware of called "discretion".

Also, if you're going to pick a martyr for the cause, don't pick a fucking dipshit that was driving around at 2:30 in the morning with no registration, no insurance and had a wide open bag of marijuana right in the center console within arms reach. That's the stupidest fucking thing on earth. Even if it had been a bottle of liquor, he would have been cited and rightly so.

So again, dumb fuck, don't act like a dumb fuck and you wont get a ticket.
 
TacoMac

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Farmer.J said:
Can't we all just get a bong?
bongsmilie
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I'm all for that, but I use a pipe.

Simple fact is, Vianarchris is obviously a guy that's had a lot of trouble with the law, so every time some complete fucking idiot gets a ticket, he comes onto the forum and paints the police out to be these evil, blood-thirsty assholes out to ruin your life.

It's simply not true.

There's a right way and a wrong way to go about doing things no matter where you are. Example:

It is illegal here to have an open container of alcohol in the passenger compartment. That law is probably about the same or close to it where you are. It's a pretty universal law.

Now, this actually happened last New Years eve: My wife and I were taking some leftover margarita makings over to a friends to take in the New Year. I packed a just over half full bottle of tequila, a 2/3rds full bottle of Cointreau and a half gallon of mix and a salter into a paper bag and rolled it shut. I put it in the back floor board behind the passenger seat in my Volvo S60.

On the way, there's a police road block. They're looking for drunks already. I pull up, roll down the window and it goes like this:

  • Officer - License and insurance please.
  • Me - hands it over.
  • Officer - had anything to drink this afternoon, sir?
  • Me - No, sir. On my way to do that now.
  • Officer - glances into the back seat and sees the bag - What's in the bag?
  • Me - Margarita.
  • Officer - You don't have any drugs of any kind in the bag, do you?
  • Me - No sir.
  • Officer - Mind if I take a quick look?
  • Me - Not at all.
  • Officer - goes 'round the car, opens the back door, unrolls the bag, looks in it, sees all three open bottles but no drugs, rolls the bag shut again and closes the door. He then walks back around to my window, hands me my license and insurance card and says, "You two have a great New Year. Don't drink and drive."
  • Me - Thank you sir.
And that's it.

Now, I can tell you for certain that had I no insurance, no license, no registration, had the tequila bottle between my legs, the Cointreau in my wife's lap and the mix and salt in the console, I would have been in a shit load of trouble.

So, again, if you're not a complete fucking moron, you have nothing to worry about. If you are, well...you deserve whatever happens to you.
 
VIANARCHRIS

VIANARCHRIS

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TacoMac said:
Simple fact is, Vianarchris is obviously a guy that's had a lot of trouble with the law, so every time some complete fucking idiot gets a ticket, he comes onto the forum and paints the police out to be these evil, blood-thirsty assholes out to ruin your life.
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Simple fact is you don't know fucking shit about me and probably very little about anything. I've never had so much as a speeding ticket in my life, chump. I've never been in trouble with the law, not once. In fact I am required to pass a criminal record check every year for my job. When did I paint the cops out to be evil? My comment was about medical patients carrying meds in the car and some cop trying to bust them for it. My buds don't come in original packaging - I haven't found the auto-package seeds yet - therefore I have open weed in the car. It's usually in my pocket. From that you decide I'm a drama queen and figure you're a keyboard fucking tough guy? I haven't hidden where I live, do some research and come knock on my door and call me names, otherwise shut the fuck up. Coward.
 
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