Potcast: A rural sheriff talks DUIs, the last pot-smelling K9s and reefer madness

Sheriff Ken Furlong is an old fashioned kind of cop.

He's the son of a former police chief, wears cowboy boots and smokes (tobacco) in his office. He was raised in a "nope to dope" household. The sheriff, like many other law enforcement authorities across the country, has to change his ways to align with his state’s now that pot is legal. How does this change dog searches, evidence handling, DUI testing for the police on the ground, and how does a rural county sheriff reckon his own values with the increasingly progressive, pot-friendly policies of our time?

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