If they had smelled a whiff of pot coming from that apartment, they would have had an entire SWAT team busting down the place with battering rams.
Save someone's life? They can't be bothered. Off to Winchells.
I was on the SWAT team and never breached a door just because of a whiff of pot. Usually it was for some 9 to 5 drunk blue-collar type whose wife who just left him for some younger guy, got the house car and kids, was drunk off his ass and was cranking off rounds into the neighborhood. The narcs deal with the pot smoke btw.
I respect the police but don't expect them to save you, because they either can't or won't.....