{"id":2618,"date":"2025-09-13T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/how-legal-hemp-accidentally-broke-the-war-on-weed-when-cops-cant-tell-the-difference\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:00:25","slug":"how-legal-hemp-accidentally-broke-the-war-on-weed-when-cops-cant-tell-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/how-legal-hemp-accidentally-broke-the-war-on-weed-when-cops-cant-tell-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"How Legal Hemp Accidentally Broke the War on Weed: When Cops Can&#8217;t Tell the Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cannabis.net\/drive\/1000\/3743_s9gS_legalhempweed.jpg?width=200&amp;height=200\"><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now watching a fascinating legal drama unfold in North Carolina&#8217;s courts, where officers are literally testifying under oath that they can smell the difference between two identical substances. In one case, Officer Jason Cleary told a judge that marijuana has a &#8220;very distinct strong smell&#8221; while hemp is &#8220;not as pungent.&#8221; Another officer claimed he attended &#8220;marijuana spotter school&#8221; and could identify marijuana by smell alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re now watching a fascinating legal drama unfold in North Carolina&#8217;s courts, where officers are literally testifying under oath that they can smell the difference between two identical substances. In one case, Officer Jason Cleary told a judge that marijuana has a &#8220;very distinct strong smell&#8221; while hemp is &#8220;not as pungent.&#8221; Another officer claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}