| Comment | I'm also not a legal expert, but most of what you said applies to what a court would have to demonstrate in order to *convict* someone, whereas the level of evidence required for the police to *charge* someone is much lower. The police don't need to prove anything, that's up to the procurator fiscal. However, note that nobody is actually being charged with drugs offences, purely obstruction of a search.
Which I think backs up that the police could have done this at any time to date, but for some reason have chosen to do it now.
Overall, though, I don't think this really matters - such actions shouldn't be at the discretion of the police, because we can't and shouldn't expect police to be moral arbiters, because their job is purely and simply to apply the law as it stands - it should be decriminalised. |
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