This Findlay Market vendor may soon be forced to conceal his herbal products

CINCINNATI - A new law proposed by City Councilman Cecil Thomas may change the way pot is sold in Cincinnati. Soon every salesman bold enough to openly display his marijuana products out on tables in neighborhoods like Over-The-Rhine will go to jail, instead of just receiving a ticket. 

However, the new law doesn't overturn a citizen's right against searches without a warrant. Many of the more sophisticated pot dealers use a technique of hiding their products inside their pockets, especially when police are in their presence.

Without probable cause, police will still not be able to determine who these more surreptitious dealers are.  Since most dealers do not openly smoke or sell their product in plain sight,  Cincinnati's jail will soon be overflowing, not with pot dealers, but the more nefarious casual pot users and cancer patients. 

"Before this new law, our police had to buy a little weed from a dealer in order to charge him with selling marijuana," said Thomas on Thursday, "Now, when police buy marijuana from a dealer, they can then get a warrant, search him, and arrest him for possession. See, it all completely makes sense."