Quote Originally Posted by Vinyadan View Post
Wait, Mammaries Evans will just keep what she confiscates and let other people smoke it? Seriously, how does "legal" work here?

Of course, one could think that Evans is acting like that to make sure Claire gets what she wants, even if it means going against the most basic principles of law enforcement.

And there's the whole carousel around it -- you can't just confiscate stuff like that, you are supposed to send illegal drugs to a lab for testing. So there was no testing. And now Evans has a stash of drugs that were confiscated by her, but were originally acquired through unknown means, and may contain more or less anything, from Fentanyl to cyanide to linseed oil, and she explicitly said she doesn't know what it precisely is, and she's now offering it to civilians.

Wow. This beats Moustache RoboCop getting drunk in a bar while wearing his uniform.
So, the tricky thing here is that while what Evan is proposing to do would indeed violate any number of laws and certainly qualify as a firing offense if Evan were a cop, she is not. Evan revealed that she (moronically, asking to get shot) carries a squirt gun, not a real firearm. Canadian police, by contrast are armed. Canada is not like the UK, the Canadian police can and do shoot people. Evan, therefore, is merely a private security guard, rather like a mall cop or the security guards at a factory checkpoint. She does not have the power to arrest anyone.

That means the child in question simply willing surrendered the 'confiscated' cannabis, and no legal action took place. There's no chain of custody, and the cannabis is no functionally Evan's to do with as she wishes. Now, ethically, sharing it is incredibly suspect, but that's par for the course in Cubetown.

This does circle back to the question of how Cubetown is organized. Is the whole platform the private property of the Director? That's possible, and probably makes the most sense. Given how many people seem to live there, Halifax PD probably has an officer permanently on site who sits in a tiny office next to the helipad and prays the phone doesn't ring for the whole shift.