(Lansing, MI) – The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled police cannot search a vehicle without a search warrant just because they smell cannabis. The justices issued a 5-to-1 opinion that throws out gun charges against a man who’s car was searched in 2020 in Detroit by police. Voters in Michigan approved recreational marijuana legalization in 2018, but it cannot be used in a vehicle.
Justice Megan Cavanagh wrote the smell of marijuana “no longer constitutes probable cause sufficient to support a search for contraband.”
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