Originally Posted by
pmocek
Hey, I agree with you, there. It's highly unlikely that you can tell the difference between a bag of cocaine and a bag of flour or powdered sugar. There's no way you could tell by sight whether someone is legally authorized to have the marijuana in his possession or not. And could you possibly know whether some pills in a bottle are melatonin or MDMA? Not likely.
Quite easy Phil. Where I live, citizens cannot possess either marijuana or cocaine legally. Makes the call for a LEO easy as pie. And there are still questions about the legality of the California laws concerning the medical use of marijuana. Good thing I don’t live there anymore.
Originally Posted by
pmocek
Sort of. It's only his or her call after you refer something, right? It's always you bag checkers who decide what to ignore and what to report, right? And you very specifically ignore things that seem like they might be indication of some crimes, but report things that seem like they might be indication of other crimes, right?
SOP give us a list of things we must report. Since we are not law enforcement officers it is not our place to make determinations of the legality of items other than WEI. Even those items we do not make determinations of legality about, we can only disallow them. If we have concerns, we refer those to a law enforcement officer.