Law enforcement officers in Illinois cannot rely on the smell of burnt cannabis alone to justify searching a vehicle without a warrant, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

An odor of burnt marijuana doesn’t justify a search of a car without a warrant in Illinois. That’s the ruling Thursday from ...

The smell of burnt marijuana is no longer grounds to search a vehicle, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The ruling ...

Illinois Supreme Court rules that the smell of cannabis alone cannot justify warrantless vehicle searches, reinforcing ...

The arresting officer described I80 as a drug corridor and called Des Moines and Chicago known "hubs of criminal activity." ...

Reversing a previous ruling from before the legalization of marijuana, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the ...

In a 6-0 ruling, the court found that cannabis laws in Illinois had evolved to the point that just catching a whiff of burnt ...

Simply smelling burnt cannabis does not give a police officer the right to conduct a warrantless search of an automobile, the ...

Police will no longer be able to use the smell of marijuana to justify searching a vehicle without a warrant, the Illinois ...

(AP Photo/Richard Vogel) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CN) — The Illinois Supreme Court issued a landmark state ruling on Thursday when ...

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled 6-0 that without other suspicious circumstances, such as a driver failing to stop for some ...

The laws on cannabis have changed in such a drastic way as to render the smell of burnt cannabis, standing alone, ...