Washington Times, 21 Mar 2013 – Narcotics dogs have one less job to do in the state of Washington. Now that marijuana has become legal within the borders, many law enforcement agencies, including the Seattle Police Department and Washington State Patrol, will no longer train their drug-sniffing canines to alert handlers to marijuana. The Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, in fact, advised police that their pooches were not required to smell out the once-illegal stuff; the task has been eliminated already from the doggy performance standards test. But it’s complicated.
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