Wow, that must have been some powerful marijuana! From the article, it doesn’t sound like he was even smoking it at the time officers approached, and yet even with gasoline freshly sprayed all over the pavement around this guy, the officers “immediately” smelled marijuana. Perhaps the article is leaving out some detail, like that they pulled him away from the pool of gasoline to have a chat with him, and THEN smelled the marijuana.
Nah. It was the ecstasy. That stuff makes people do some pretty stupid things.