why can you smell weed through sealed plastic bags

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stephaniesloan

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i watched a police programme where they stopped an idiot for driving with no insurance and when they were talking to the driver the cops noticed there was a smell in the car of weed, they searched the boot and lo and behold a large cardboard box with about 3 kilos in it. but it was all separated in to sealed bags, you know the resealable type ones, did they smell it from their clothes or what.
 
Bonghostage

Bonghostage

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Smell tends to escape plastic baggies, unless they're "smelly proof" and even then you can still smell it sometimes
 
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carnage11

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Seal-able bags aren't air tight. You might think they are, but they are not. Wanna test it for yourself? Put some bud in a seal-able bag and seal it tight while pressing all the air out of it. It should look vacuum packed and nice and tight. Now wait an hour and go back and look at the bag. It won't be vacuum packed anymore and will have air in it.
 
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stephaniesloan

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carnage11 said:
Seal-able bags aren't air tight. You might think they are, but they are not. Wanna test it for yourself? Put some bud in a seal-able bag and seal it tight while pressing all the air out of it. It should look vacuum packed and nice and tight. Now wait an hour and go back and look at the bag. It won't be vacuum packed anymore and will have air in it.
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right, so if you vacuum pack it to transport it then it wont smell?

or thicker plastic like the the type used for damp proofing, or grow room walls.

or is there a way he could have moved it without cops smelling it.
 
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mattman

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there is still pores even in vacuum sealed bags... a Seal will usually last 2-3 hours, then you have to revac....
 
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carnage11

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stephaniesloan said:
right, so if you vacuum pack it to transport it then it wont smell?

or thicker plastic like the the type used for damp proofing, or grow room walls.

or is there a way he could have moved it without cops smelling it.
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There are things you can do to keep cops from smelling it, but the dogs are a bit more difficult to hide from. About the only way to hide from a dog is to cover the smell with another smell, like coffee.

"The percentage of the dog's brain that is devoted to analyzing smells is actually 40 times larger than that of a human! It's been estimated that dogs can identify smells somewhere between 1,000 to 10,000 times better than nasally challenged humans can."
 
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stephaniesloan

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carnage11 said:
There are things you can do to keep cops from smelling it, but the dogs are a bit more difficult to hide from. About the only way to hide from a dog is to cover the smell with another smell, like coffee.

"The percentage of the dog's brain that is devoted to analyzing smells is actually 40 times larger than that of a human! It's been estimated that dogs can identify smells somewhere between 1,000 to 10,000 times better than nasally challenged humans can."
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yes but it was a cop not a dog.

what can i do when i want to move my dope in the car and i want to keep it smell proof from a cop.

none of this seal it in wax carry on, we need to be realistic here.
 
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carnage11

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It's not that difficult. I agree wax works great. Take a scented 3-wick candle. Slice off the bottom, hollow it out, shove your bag in there, melt the wax back to the bottom. Throw the candle in a gift bag or something and you're golden.


Otherwise, you can always bury a small bag in a can of coffee. The smell of the coffee is enough to throw anyone off, but having cans of coffee in your trunk looks a little suspicious.
 
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mattman

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putting your grass in coffee beans does jack shit.... if you were to take mustard/ketchup/mayonnaise/peanut butter and mix it all up, if a dog could talk he would known what EACH ingredient was within your concoction.
 
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mrmadcow

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3 keys of good stinky bud might have been noticeable to a cop if poorly bagged. or the idiot just finished a bowl.
a glass jar w/ a good lid will seal the smell but you also have to remember not to contaminate the jar or yourself by touching anything w/ fingers that smell of weed.
 
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mattman

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guy in a county above mine, got pulled over b/c the cops were "suspicious"... they asked to search his car, he declined, they brought dogs and ran em around his car.... dogs barked and they then searched his car found 190 pounds of high grade... hes now facing 50 years in court, but will most likely get out of it b/c he said fuck no u cant search, they had no grounds to search until the brought the dogs and did their shit.
 
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DuMpSteRLoVe216

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carnage11 said:
There are things you can do to keep cops from smelling it, but the dogs are a bit more difficult to hide from. About the only way to hide from a dog is to cover the smell with another smell, like coffee.

"The percentage of the dog's brain that is devoted to analyzing smells is actually 40 times larger than that of a human! It's been estimated that dogs can identify smells somewhere between 1,000 to 10,000 times better than nasally challenged humans can."
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a dog can smell weed in a gas tank full of gas
 
bigbillyrocka

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mattman said:
guy in a county above mine, got pulled over b/c the cops were "suspicious"... they asked to search his car, he declined, they brought dogs and ran em around his car.... dogs barked and they then searched his car found 190 pounds of high grade... hes now facing 50 years in court, but will most likely get out of it b/c he said fuck no u cant search, they had no grounds to search until the brought the dogs and did their shit.
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The dogs gave the cops "probable cause" to search by "signaling to the cops something was in there. Happens all the time
 
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DuMpSteRLoVe216

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mattman said:
guy in a county above mine, got pulled over b/c the cops were "suspicious"... they asked to search his car, he declined, they brought dogs and ran em around his car.... dogs barked and they then searched his car found 190 pounds of high grade... hes now facing 50 years in court, but will most likely get out of it b/c he said fuck no u cant search, they had no grounds to search until the brought the dogs and did their shit.
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if he was going through a check point the dogs are enough to search.i beat a trafficking case(186 x pills)becuz of illegal search and seizure my lawyer said if u are crossing a check point they can search,luckily i wasnt
 
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stephaniesloan said:
i watched a police programme where they stopped an idiot for driving with no insurance and when they were talking to the driver the cops noticed there was a smell in the car of weed, they searched the boot and lo and behold a large cardboard box with about 3 kilos in it. but it was all separated in to sealed bags, you know the resealable type ones, did they smell it from their clothes or what.
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If you put that plastic bag under a microscope, you will find a magnification point that shows microscopic holes in the plastic bag, it's at a molecular level for the PVC. Scent particles can escape but water particles are too large. This is why a sniffer dog can smell the stuff through barrels, it's sensitivity is at such a heightened state that it can detect at molecular levels the scent.
 
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mrmadcow

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bigbillyrocka said:
The dogs gave the cops "probable cause" to search by "signaling to the cops something was in there. Happens all the time
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I wonder how many false hits the dogs make. my mother in law lives on US/Canadian border & they have been on a drug bust frenzy. 2x in the last few weeks she has rolled up on roadblocks and had the dogs "hit" on her car so they searched it. found nothing, she doesn't smoke. suspect the dogs were smelling her dog's scent, it was in heat & in the car earlier in the day of both searches.
 
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