Police use 'nose telescope' for cannabis odour mapping
Source: Telegraph
Police in Denver are using a nose telescope to tackle odours from the recreational use of marijuana
As more cities in America legalise the drug, attention has switched to the pungent smell that wafts from the joint itself.
Denver has passed a new odour ordinance with a potential $2,000 (£1,247) fine for anyone found guilty of polluting the atmosphere.
The need to draw up standards emerged because of the confusion over the legal position of whether somebody smoking marijuana in their own home could be committing an environmental offence when the smell seeps into the street.
Under the new law an offence is committed if the odour is detectable when the smoke is mixed with seven times the volume of clean air.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10448756/Police-use-nose-telescope-for-cannabis-odour-mapping.html
Arkana
(24,347 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)see Futurama as one of the true prophetic art mediums of our era...
Arkana
(24,347 posts)YOU ALL STILL HAVE ZOIDBERG!
Nine
(1,741 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)to stop people from making that joke.
Fry: What's it called now?
Professor: Urectum.
yesphan
(1,586 posts)Vaporize.
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)kristopher
(29,798 posts)By Jeremy P. Meyer
The Denver Post
Posted: 11/11/2013 12:01:00 AM MST
Ben Siller of Denver environmental health uses the Nasal Ranger, a device that helps detect the intensity of an odor. (Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post)
...
Siller will bring his device to the area and sniff the air, determining whether the odor violates the city odor law. Rarely does that happen.
...The pungent odor of marijuana plants or even second-hand pot smoke won't violate the odor law, which is determined by volume. A violation occurs after the odor exceeds the 7-1 ratio when one volume of odor is detectable with seven or more volumes of nonodorous air.
The Nasal Ranger the conelike contraption that Siller attaches to his nose dials in the strength of the odor. Almost never does the smell surpass the 7-to-1 dilution threshold.
It hasn't happened since 1994. Odors would have to be pretty strong, an industrial-level aroma, like what would come from an ill-managed rendering plant.
...
http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_24496810/when-pot-smells-denver-nasal-ranger-goes-investigate
Monday, October 14, 2013
by Jake Ellison
If you do this in Denver even on your own property and someone smells it you could get hit with a year in jail and $999 fine if a new law goes through the city council.
(Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)
The proposed city ordinancein Denver that would re-criminalize possession of marijuana in some public places and impose a year in jail and $999 fine for marijuana smell got what seemed to be a pretty cool reception today.
A council committee there took up the ordinance, beat it up and promised to revisit it, likely significantly redrafted, sometime down the road.
Whats it matter to Seattle/Washington and The Pot Blog?
The proposed rules came about as backlash to open use of marijuana in the city and lingering concerns about the social issues legal pot brings up: How kids will perceive marijuana use, whether its use will degrade the business climate downtown and if people will have to live with the smell of pot the next time they throw a birthday party for their kid in a park
Consequently, it seems prudent to expect efforts to curtail marijuana use here as the ...
http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_24496810/when-pot-smells-denver-nasal-ranger-goes-investigate
Schema Thing
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LiberalLovinLug
(14,154 posts)And I can imagine a new comedy with Stiller as an Odor Cop running around with that big nose megaphone.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Maybe just take the rest of the year off, PAID!
It'll end up being in the best interests of everyone!
Blue Owl
(49,918 posts)n/t
freebrew
(1,917 posts)skunk. Cute little critters, they can even keep the scent glands. They only spray when they're scared or excited...
Maybe they can be trained to spray cops???
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)And is strong like it used to be. Pot even if double bagged, you can smell it. The good old days.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Ofc. KansDem, have you detected cannabis coming from that house?
Yeah...yeah...just a few more hits, er, "detections"...I want to be absolutely certain. Yeah...yeah...
Archae
(46,262 posts)One of the comics had Neddy the Narc installing a "smell bug" in the Brothers' pad.
Neddy turned the sensitivity up to max, and they had just returned from eating out Mexican.
Fat Freddy farts into the bug.
Gruenemann
(967 posts)I never would have thought that the Freak Brothers were predicting the future!
As I recall, though, the nark's name was Norbert
Archae
(46,262 posts)Suffice to say, he was rather inept.
I liked the time he cut into the Brothers' couch, not knowing it was an inflatable one, that they had blown up with nitrous oxide.
(Yup, he got stoned out of his gourd.)
woofless
(2,670 posts)rrrrriipppppppppppps one.
Cirque du So-What
(25,812 posts)Funny how a silly cartoon from 40 years ago can stay with you like that, popping back into your consciousness at the slightest provocation.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)provided that the ventilation system is well designed. HOWEVER, it is well known that ozone is harmful to human health.
So, which is worse, the "pungent odor" of the marijuana plants your neighbor is growing? Or the more deadly properties of O3 (ozone) that they're, unknown to you, causing you to breathe?
Don't believe me, look this stuff up, it's all available online. This will get you started:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=marijuana+ozone
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Or rosemary bush? Or fresh-cut lawn? Or pine trees?
To be safe, we need to eliminate ALL plants to protect our delicate noses.
tridim
(45,358 posts)Things smell, some good, some bad. That's just the way it is society.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)It would be much more accurate to compare it to the smell of roses, or like the other poster said, some kind of flower. Folks who use or grow marijuana tend to believe its fragrance pleasant and "clean".
tridim
(45,358 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,340 posts)I can't believe the local industries let this happen if it does.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)The post states: "As more cities in America legalese the drug, attention has switched to the pungent smell that wafts from the joint itself. "
I have never heard of such ridiculous hypocrisy. How many decades have citizens been standing outside .. and inside, for that matter, smoking cigarettes? So they can't strike down the legalization of the marijuana .. so they go after the ''smell'' (?) Are you F.ing Kidding Me? So they can't bust you for possession .. but can bust you for the smell. I don't smoke pot but I don't find the smell half as offensive as second hand smoke from cigarettes. Second hand smoke from cigarettes causes cancer .. proven! I only hear about the benefits of marijuana (for medicinal use of course) ha ha .. That's just f'd up folks.
thefool_wa
(1,867 posts)They REALLY want to be able to arrest people for something that is completely harmless. WHY!!!???
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...now that they've lost the others related to smoking cannabis.
- It's the American way.....
thefool_wa
(1,867 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)"for anyone found guilty of polluting the atmosphere." I can so think of bigger fish to fry than pot smokers for that. But noooooo it all the evil pot smokers.
-p
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)results in an innocent party being killed?
olddad56
(5,732 posts)I guess driving a gasoline powered vehicle is illegal then. No more cars for Denver. May as well shutdown the airport also. No more food arriving to the grocery stores by truck.
Is it the odor they are concerned about, or actual air pollution. I find the smell of pot less offense that most perfumes.
Needless to say, farting could get you a $2000 fine.
I think they might want to rethink this one.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)What a fuc***ng WASTE. How about using it for tracking down actual pollution, like Koch brothers factories.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)something to do.
I wish it were something that didn't involve fucking up other people's lives who
are engaging in an activity just voted to be 100% LEGAL.
It's ironic in a sick kind of way that they are using "environmental" laws to
do it.
1000words
(7,051 posts)Healthier for you, anyway.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)I understand its appeal, but it is pretty wasteful.
(I'm speaking hypothetically, of course )