WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:05.0260000" NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8741603 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.735 Even though simple marijuana possession NOTE Confidence: 0.8741603 00:00:01.735 --> 00:00:03.470 is legal starting next week, NOTE Confidence: 0.8741603 00:00:03.470 --> 00:00:05.854 you can still get in trouble if you NOTE Confidence: 0.8741603 00:00:05.854 --> 00:00:07.757 aren't aware of all of the rules. NOTE Confidence: 0.8741603 00:00:07.760 --> 00:00:09.275 There's a lot of information NOTE Confidence: 0.8741603 00:00:09.275 --> 00:00:10.790 about what will be different NOTE Confidence: 0.8741603 00:00:10.849 --> 00:00:12.337 than what won't be all week, NOTE Confidence: 0.8741603 00:00:12.340 --> 00:00:13.770 or answering your questions today. NOTE Confidence: 0.8741603 00:00:13.770 --> 00:00:14.914 Alex Littlehales tackles what NOTE Confidence: 0.8741603 00:00:14.914 --> 00:00:16.630 you need to know while driving. NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:18.450 --> 00:00:20.158 Well, the rules of the road take NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:20.158 --> 00:00:21.751 a backseat to Virginia's new NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:21.751 --> 00:00:23.718 marijuana laws. Let's take a look NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:23.720 --> 00:00:24.892 at just to clarify, NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:24.892 --> 00:00:26.357 this is an empty box. NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:26.360 --> 00:00:27.532 It's not actually marijuana, NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:27.532 --> 00:00:29.290 but for the sake of today, NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:29.290 --> 00:00:30.590 let's say this box represents NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:30.590 --> 00:00:32.510 up to an ounce of marijuana, NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:32.510 --> 00:00:34.568 which will be legal starting July one. NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:34.570 --> 00:00:35.666 Well, we've already clarified NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:35.666 --> 00:00:37.310 that it will still be illegal NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:37.365 --> 00:00:38.669 to consume marijuana either, NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:38.670 --> 00:00:40.130 as the driver or passenger, NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:40.130 --> 00:00:41.526 but some viewers wanted NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:41.526 --> 00:00:43.271 clarification on whether you can NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:43.271 --> 00:00:45.107 have it in your car in the 1st NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:45.110 --> 00:00:47.679 place. No prohibition on that if it's NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:50.189 not accessible by people under age 21. NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:50.190 --> 00:00:52.438 Something in the glove compartment or in a NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:52.438 --> 00:00:54.389 closed container is not inputting the public, NOTE Confidence: 0.86977524 00:00:54.390 --> 00:00:56.350 so there's no prohibition on that whatsoever. NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:00:56.350 --> 00:00:58.030 Tim Clancy, a Hampton based attorney, NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:00:58.030 --> 00:00:59.614 clarified the new laws in a NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:00:59.614 --> 00:01:01.029 conversations with the clerk zoom NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:01.029 --> 00:01:02.790 call Wednesday night. So as long NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:02.790 --> 00:01:04.533 as marijuana can't be seen and is NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:04.533 --> 00:01:06.429 out of sight from police officer, NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:06.430 --> 00:01:08.026 he says that it would be NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:08.026 --> 00:01:09.789 considered out of the public eye. NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:09.790 --> 00:01:11.764 Similar to how you can't drive with NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:11.764 --> 00:01:13.709 open containers of alcohol in your car. NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:13.710 --> 00:01:15.110 But this raises another question. NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:15.110 --> 00:01:16.510 If it's inside the car, NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:16.510 --> 00:01:18.190 what if you can smell it? NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:18.190 --> 00:01:20.255 Would you get in trouble for it? NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:20.260 --> 00:01:22.360 And this is actually an issue NOTE Confidence: 0.8597871 00:01:22.360 --> 00:01:23.760 that lawmakers addressed this NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:25.860 March in a special legislative session NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:25.860 --> 00:01:27.610 last year, lawmakers passed House NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:27.610 --> 00:01:29.710 Bill 5058 and Senate Bill 5029, NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:29.710 --> 00:01:32.160 which prevents law enforcement from the stop, NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:32.160 --> 00:01:34.260 search or seizure of any person, NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:34.260 --> 00:01:36.126 place or thing solely on the NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:36.126 --> 00:01:38.230 basis of the odor of marijuana NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:38.230 --> 00:01:40.210 does not give probable cause NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:40.210 --> 00:01:41.960 to search anything. In fact, NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:41.960 --> 00:01:43.576 the statute quite specifically NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:43.576 --> 00:01:45.596 says police officers may not NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:45.596 --> 00:01:47.684 search may not get probable cause NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:47.684 --> 00:01:49.967 to search a vehicle solely on the NOTE Confidence: 0.8641614 00:01:49.967 --> 00:01:51.755 basis of the smell of marijuana. NOTE Confidence: 0.7445475 00:01:51.880 --> 00:01:55.394 In Norfolk, Alex Littlehales 13 news now. NOTE Confidence: 0.7445475 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.640 And marijuana is still illegal under federal NOTE Confidence: 0.8842601 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:00.013 law. Which attorney Tim Clancy says creates NOTE Confidence: 0.8842601 00:02:00.013 --> 00:02:02.465 a conflict as possession can carry up to NOTE Confidence: 0.8842601 00:02:02.465 --> 00:02:05.025 one year in jail in the federal system.