Our Readers Admitted Flying With Weed. A Cannabis Lawyer Says The Real Self-Incrimination Risk Is Going Legal, Not Getting High.

Travelers flooded the comments admitting they fly with weed. A top cannabis lawyer says that is not the federal exposure people think it is. The confession that counts is the one operators are signing to go legal.

High Times posted a routine update. The TSA had quietly changed a line on its website about traveling with medical marijuana, and the comment section did something worth paying attention to. It filled with people admitting they had been doing this for years.

Comment after comment said the same thing. They had flown with cannabis for years, some for decades. Flower, vapes, edibles, concentrates. A handful copped to amounts well past anything personal. The throughline was that the TSA had never seemed to care, that the agency was looking for weapons and explosives, and waved the rest through.

Plenty of others read it differently. They called it a trap, a setup, a sting, and joked about how many feds they figured were reading the thread. Which gets at the question we had too. If you publicly admit you have been flying with weed, is that a confession the government can use against you?

We put it to Bob Hoban, a cannabis attorney who, by his own count, has drafted marijuana laws and regulations in over 35 countries and roughly a dozen U.S. states, often working directly for the governments doing the regulating. His answer reframed the whole thing.

Start with what is true. Rescheduling did not legalize carrying weed through an airport. Recreational marijuana is still Schedule I, and simple possession is a federal offense under 21 U.S.C. 844, the statute covering personal-quantity possession. Even the state-licensed medical products moved to Schedule III in April are not automatically legal to possess, because a Schedule III substance is lawful to hold only with proper …

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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times