While the capability of the police to forfeit property is absolutely and completely unfair and, in an (supposedly) equal society, deeply questionable——as opposed to <i>taking the property temporarily unless</i> proven guilty——the unescapably stupid thing to do is to a) transfer money in cash and b) smoking weed while doing that.<p>All kinds of unlucky things could happen with a) such as losing the baggage&#x2F;wallet&#x2F;jacket with the money in it or being robbed. But because of b) and in a state where I believe cannabis is illegal, the mere unluckiness can be imagined to be amplified tenfold and one of the results is a catastrophe such as his.