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"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
11/09/2018 at 13:49 • Filed to: None

I hate being stuck in “limbo places” like conference rooms, airplanes and airports. Your batteries, both digitally and mentally are running low, you are surrounded by people and everything costs a ton. $9 beer? FUCK. Anyway, here is a scenario I had never thought about regarding legal cannabis. If you are flying with legal cannabis within Canada and your flight is diverted (emergency or whatever) to a USA airport. You have to pas through CBP, a Federal law enforcement agency.... with your now illegal weed. Good luck!

From the airport’s site:

“ PLEASE NOTE: If you are legally travelling within Canada with cannabis and your flight diverts into the United States, you may be required to disembark from the aircraft and go through U.S. Customs . Please be aware that in these circumstances you will be subject to applicable United States law regarding cannabis possession.”

DISCUSSION (17)

Ash78, voting early and often > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/09/2018 at 13:59

Welp, guess I just got an inflight meal. Vegetarian option.

Spanfeller is a twat > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/09/2018 at 14:01

It could happen... I guess. Except I suppose most airlines would ban flying with pot.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Spanfeller is a twat
11/09/2018 at 14:02

You can fly with pot. It’s legal.

Travelling within Canada
Travellers are permitted to fly within Canada with up to 30 grams of cannabis. You will have to be of legal age, which is 18 or 19 years of age, depending on the province or territory . It is illegal to travel with any more than this amount for non-medicinal purposes.

vondon302 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/09/2018 at 14:08

And if it’s a state where cannabis is legal your still screwed cause Airports are under federal control.

Good point though.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > vondon302
11/09/2018 at 14:11

Exactly. Canadians don’t really think about how the laws work or are enforced in the US.

Mid Engine > vondon302
11/09/2018 at 14:16

I reminded my son of the fact airports are federal; he was flying from Seattle to Bend (Oregon) and since pot is legal in both states he thought he’d be fine carrying pot with him.. Nope, big nope.

Future Heap Owner > Ash78, voting early and often
11/09/2018 at 14:17

This is actually a decent plan. Since the THC in pot is not psychoactive until it’s heated to well over 300°F, you’d dispose of the contraband without getting stoned out of your mind.

functionoverfashion > Ash78, voting early and often
11/09/2018 at 14:17

Kinja'd!!!

shop-teacher > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/09/2018 at 14:19

I’m sorry, what were you saying? A ll I heard was squarebody Suburban with dog dish hubcaps.

Spanfeller is a twat > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/09/2018 at 14:22

But airlines can ban certain items anyway, can’t they?

vondon302 > Mid Engine
11/09/2018 at 14:22

That could have gotten ugly.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Spanfeller is a twat
11/09/2018 at 14:24

Maybe. It’s their plane. Why though? You’d just be giving up business by arbitrarily banning a legal substance .

I bet you that next year when edibles are legalized (long story) that you can buy them on Canadian flights.

Spanfeller is a twat > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/09/2018 at 14:28

Well, “aircanada tries to smuggle drugs into Montana regional airport durinng fake emergency” sounds like a Breitbart article waiting to happen!

Also, i have no clue how they could handle edibles... I think european airlines brought alcohol to muslim nations for years and just waited to leave their territory to open up the bottles.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Spanfeller is a twat
11/09/2018 at 14:33

I would guess that in the unlikely event of being diverted to the US on a CDN to CDN flight, the edibles would remain airside. The plane doesn’t pass through customs, only people.

It’d be like a USA to USA flight being diverted to Canada in an emergency. In the hold I can gaurentee you would be handguns/rifles for defense/sport that are illegal in Canada.

While I am no lawyer (yet), I would guess that they are fine until that cargo is declared/goes through customs.

Spanfeller is a twat > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/09/2018 at 14:39

I’d guess it’d depend on how butthurt the airport staff is about drugs. On the guns case, A US Marine “accidentally” crossed into Tijuana with three rifles and ammo and he was sent to jail here for gunrunning.

Granted, perhaps not a goo d example, this marine was jailed again for drug possession a few years later.

facw > Mid Engine
11/09/2018 at 14:45

The good news is that TSA’s mandate doesn’t cover drugs. When they find them, they turn them over to local law enforcement. Local law enforcement isn’t going to care though, as long as you aren’t breaking their laws, so will probably just let you throw it out and send you back to go through security.

Quoting an article about flying and recreational weed in CA :

According to the Los Angeles Airport Police, which operates at Los Angeles International Airport and several other Southern California airports, if someone is stopped by the TSA with a state-legal amount of medical of recreational marijuana, airport police would not charge them with anything, “Because it is not a crime.”

The same goes for John Wayne Airport in Orange County.

“If the TSA calls us [about finding marijuana], we’d go up and make sure it is within the legal quantity. If it is, we’d just stand by while the passenger decides what to do with it,” said Lieutenant Mark Gonzales, airport police services bureau chief with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. “TSA may not want it to fly, but that doesn’t mean it is illegal in California.”

Coming in from Canada would be a much bigger problem, since you are dealing with CBP rather than TSA and local law enforce ment (though I bet if you just left your baggie on the plane, they wouldn’t bother tracking you down to see who it belonged to.

MM54 > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
11/09/2018 at 18:55

You can keep your weed, I’ll take the Suburban please