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"if that means tricking or intimidating a stupid pot head, great."

Is it just stupid pot heads who should be intimidated or are there any other people you think should get the special intimidation you sound so fond of?

"The amendments to the Bill of Rights in question were written to protect the *innocent* and they lay out a rough procedure in handling those suspected of crimes"

If the constitutional protections are only there to protect the innocent, why would we need them to apply to anyone accused of a crime or anyone convicted of one?

The rights you grant to a smelly pot head or any other group you vilify are the same rights you will have for yourself. Your desire to grant protections only to people you like (ie people like you) will always backfire. Before you go off and claim to be law abiding, innocent, and to have nothing to hide, check if your jurisdiction has an anti sodomy law that outlaws oral sex of any kind- homosexual or heterosexual. Mine does. I personally don't want a sheriff's deputy breaking down my door when my wife and I engage in what the majority in my state decided at some point was illegal. Are we innocent? not at all by your definition. Do we have a right to some privacy anyway? I hope so.

The Bill of rights exists to carve out a space where the neither the law nor the majority that votes for any law can intrude. If you can't think of any reason that would be useful. You need to get out more.