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Satori23 said:

Local police station dogs are not typically trained for such items, but there are DEA dogs that can indicate mushrooms, usually they are used in customs or in airport security.



Don't make a claim that dogs can't sniff that without having proper information. Some people take whats said here to heart & false information regarding subjects like this is just dangerous.

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Knobby Tops said:

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Satori23 said:

Local police station dogs are not typically trained for such items, but there are DEA dogs that can indicate mushrooms, usually they are used in customs or in airport security.



Don't make a claim that dogs can't sniff that without having proper information. Some people take whats said here to heart & false information regarding subjects like this is just dangerous.

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I have to agree... people read stuff and if it is what they want to hear, they are so much more likely to remember... especially false / dangerous information.

As for a Dog's sniffing ability... it is my understanding that some breeds of dog can be trained to detect ANY scent...ANYTHING!

Just look at the different types of trained dogs that are available...

there are dogs trained to detect everything from peanuts for people with peanut allergies... to dogs that can detect when your blood sugar is dangerously low for diabetics...

So a shroom sniffing dog makes perfect sense... and I agree with satori23... local police / small town police are probably less likely to possess a dog like this; whereas the DEA and customs agents most certainly do.

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Again I disagree a shroom sniffing dog does not make perfect sense.

They do not want to run into situations like this

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But some drug dogs are just too good to be believed. In one case reported by the Tampa Tribune, a now-retired drug dog named Talon "alerted" on every single vehicle he sniffed during a four-month period -- even though drugs were found in less than half of them.

Such results call into question the dog's reliability and can result in a successful motion to suppress the evidence in drug cases, usually leading to the dismissal of charges. That's what happened in a recent Manatee County case. Circuit Judge Johnes Riva said in a ruling the dog's record of false "hits" gave her no choice but to throw out the evidence in a drug case.

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http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/553/florida_attorneys_drug_dog_hit

I also found this which is just some interesting and very valuable info for people here that may need to challenge a dog sniff search
http://www.dallascriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/2008/11/drug_dog_expert_steven_nicely_1.html

I am definitely not arguing against the fact that dogs can be and are trained to smell mushrooms (truffles in France though are the ones I refer to when I say they ARE trained to smell mushrooms).

I believe in every case where a dog has smelled mushrooms that there has been something else involved.

It could be as simple as people smoking pot while cleaning/drying, packaging the mushrooms and the particles from the pot adhere to the mushrooms or the bags, and then the dog smells this...

Either way it is my belief that a dog trained to smell mushrooms would be too much of a liability in relation to false positive hits - making any hit the dog did make subject to scrutiny.

Anyway always good to have a healthy debate

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an eastbound vehicle traveling at 84 mph in a 75 mph zone

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It was a 75 mph zone... if you can't drive below 75, you really should reconsider moving weight.

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RoosterCogburn said:

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an eastbound vehicle traveling at 84 mph in a 75 mph zone

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It was a 75 mph zone... if you can't drive below 75, you really should reconsider moving weight.

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whattheheck said:
but why speed when you're looking at YEARS in prison if you get stopped?

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i agreed with that point a couple posts ago