A woman was jailed for 3 months because police thought her cotton candy was meth

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Most drug testing kits are garbage in the hands of an untrained officer. They require the tester to actually understand what the test is doing. Blue cotton candy turned blue in a solution? What a freaking surprise officer derp.

It's obvious the root cause of this was the way we treat drug crimes, or the fact that drugs are considered criminal. Here we have an instance of excessive bail, lack of due process, no speedy trial, and blatant incompetence. I hope she rakes them over the coals.

That's sad, but there doesn't appear to be any wrongdoing on the part of the officers.

The arresting officers may not have been at fault but there's clearly something wrong with a system that keeps someone in jail for 3 months because of an inability to expeditiously conduct what amounts to some pretty basic chemical testing. Also, it is inexcusable to keep someone imprisoned for 2 weeks after the test in question reveals that the substance in question was not actually meth. Somewhere along the line there were clearly multiple failures with either the police and/or the prosecutor's office.

Except for, like, the entire case. I wonder if you'd say the same if it happened to you?

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