[Joe]

So I'm watching that Alaska State Troopers show on tv last weekend. A trooper pulls over this car, and the trooper notices the smell of dope. The trooper asks about it, and they show him a bag with about 1/4 pound or more, and he takes it. Then asks if they have guns or any other drugs, and they say yes, they have a loaded Glock. He takes that. They say they have no more dope, just what they gave him. The trooper does not search the car.

The trooper then empties out the Glock and writes a "summons to appear" for the dope, and gives them their gun back - but not loaded. You don't need a license to carry a concealed weapon in Alaska.

The trooper said that if he took everybody he pulled over for dope down for an arrest - he'd do nothing else and he needs to be on patrol.

Cripes, if that happened around here they'd have five cop cars there and the people would do time. Weird how there is so much disparity in the laws of the states.