A rather large portion on our society use marijuana on a regular basis. Since a large 
number of states allow legal recreational use of marijuana and medical marijuana is legal in Florida, people tend to thing that having marijuana is “no big deal”. However, we need to remember that recreational use of marijuana is still against the law here in Florida, and if you are driving around with it in your car, you are at risk of legal consequences.
While police generally need a warrant to search you or your property — during a traffic stop, police only need probable cause to legally search your vehicle. Probable cause means police must have some facts or evidence to believe you’re involved in criminal activity..
It seems like the better the quality of the marijuana, the stronger the smell is. Trust me, if you are driving around with a bag of high quality marijuana, and the police stop you for a routine traffic stop, they are likely to smell your marijuana.
Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard of proof in United States law that is less than probable cause, the legal standard for arrests and warrants, but more than an “inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or ‘hunch'”;[1] it must be based on “specific and articulable facts”, “taken together with rational inferences from those facts”,[2] and the suspicion must be associated with the specific individual.[3] If police additionally have reasonable suspicion that a person so detained is armed and dangerous, they may “frisk” the person for weapons, but not for contraband like drugs. Reasonable suspicion is evaluated using the “reasonable person” or “reasonable officer” standard,[4] in which said person in the same circumstances could reasonably suspect a person has been, is, or is about to be engaged in criminal activity; it depends upon the totality of circumstances, and can result from a combination of particular facts, even if each is individually innocuous.
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