As more states pass medical marijuana laws, or legalize it outright, the TSA is heading for a don’t-ask/don’t-tell police on weed at airports. The official policy is to refer drug possession to local law, but where the law doesn’t care, that’s rather pointless.
“I hear reports from people flying from one medical use site to another or flying from one part of California to another and they generally report that if they carry their authorization, they simply show the letter and are sent on their way and are allowed to keep their medicine,” says Keith Stroup, an attorney and founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. “The same policy should apply Colorado to Washington or Washington to Colorado.”
“I’m delighted to hear that because I think it shows that TSA primarily is acting as it was intended when it was established, to protect all of us when we travel on the airlines and to thwart terrorists. It is not supposed to be an anti-drug agency,” says Stroup. “What nobody feels 100 percent comfortable with is it’s a grey zone you’re going through. It’s technically still illegal even though they aren’t enforcing it very strongly.”
TSA Might Allow You to Board Plane with Your Marijuana [Aaron Kase/Lawyers.com]
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