Whats up guys
I hope yous have had an awesome Christmas, and a happy new year when it comes by.
I'm from NSW, Australia (where marijuana is not decriminalized like other states) so I don't know if the laws down here for similar enough to the ones in the US for most of you to help me out.
Anyway, just then, literally like 1 hour ago I was walking through a park with a friend and the park is apparently a suspicious place where people smoke weed all the time and deal drugs there. (which I was unaware of since I never smoke outside of a house.) All of a sudden a police car pulls up and asked what we were doing and if we could come over to the car, and we told them we were just passing through on the way to my house (which we honestly were) and they told us about the park and the drug users and drug dealers etc and then asked if they could search our bags. At first I said no because I felt I wasn't doing anything wrong.
Anyway, the officer said that I was being suspicious by saying no to the search and I eventually just gave them the backpack on my back and proceeded with the search. My friend was also being searched at the same time where they found a small joints worth of weed where he received a cannabis caution on the spot.
After I was completely searched and found to be clean, all my things were handed back except the cannabis books. The officer that was dealing with me took the books in the car and proceeded to report the encounter and took my details down and I'm pretty sure he wrote down the name of the two books. After that, the books were handed back to me we both headed off.
One book was just a fact book about marijuana.
The other was a Cannabis Grow guide. Green Weed: The Organic Guide to Growing High Quality Cannabis
They recorded both of these book names when writing down the encounter.
Note:I was asked if I was planning on growing it and I said no way.
So what I'm asking is, do you in your opinion think that is reasonable suspicion for the police to get a warrant to search my house?
That is the only thing I'm worried about, for personal reasons ofcourse...
It would be great if someone could give me their advice, cheers.
P.S. I know it was stupid to have those books in there, but I honestly forgot about them since they were among my university work. It was all unexpected really.
I hope yous have had an awesome Christmas, and a happy new year when it comes by.
I'm from NSW, Australia (where marijuana is not decriminalized like other states) so I don't know if the laws down here for similar enough to the ones in the US for most of you to help me out.
Anyway, just then, literally like 1 hour ago I was walking through a park with a friend and the park is apparently a suspicious place where people smoke weed all the time and deal drugs there. (which I was unaware of since I never smoke outside of a house.) All of a sudden a police car pulls up and asked what we were doing and if we could come over to the car, and we told them we were just passing through on the way to my house (which we honestly were) and they told us about the park and the drug users and drug dealers etc and then asked if they could search our bags. At first I said no because I felt I wasn't doing anything wrong.
Anyway, the officer said that I was being suspicious by saying no to the search and I eventually just gave them the backpack on my back and proceeded with the search. My friend was also being searched at the same time where they found a small joints worth of weed where he received a cannabis caution on the spot.
After I was completely searched and found to be clean, all my things were handed back except the cannabis books. The officer that was dealing with me took the books in the car and proceeded to report the encounter and took my details down and I'm pretty sure he wrote down the name of the two books. After that, the books were handed back to me we both headed off.
One book was just a fact book about marijuana.
The other was a Cannabis Grow guide. Green Weed: The Organic Guide to Growing High Quality Cannabis
They recorded both of these book names when writing down the encounter.
Note:I was asked if I was planning on growing it and I said no way.
So what I'm asking is, do you in your opinion think that is reasonable suspicion for the police to get a warrant to search my house?
That is the only thing I'm worried about, for personal reasons ofcourse...
It would be great if someone could give me their advice, cheers.
P.S. I know it was stupid to have those books in there, but I honestly forgot about them since they were among my university work. It was all unexpected really.
but they were still in their seedling stage and it was my first grow so meh. I guess I'll take the time to read up more so I can be better off for my grow next time, also I'm going to read up on local laws so I don't fuck up again LOL.