Washington and Colorado can be easily visited through avariety of cheap traveloptions, including cheapairplane tickets, and cheap vacation packages. These states decision to legalize pot forpersonal use appears to have increased their popularity, at least among selecttravelers.
Now passengers have started transporting pot through thesestates airports. Washingtons airportscannot prevent travelers from transporting pot in the air so long as they donot attempt to travel with pot over the state legal limit of one ounce. Colorado airports have more discretion whenit comes to pot because its state pot laws give property owners more authorityto restrict the drug.
Some Colorado airports have forbidden pot on their premisesand have come out with penalties, including fines as high as $2,500 and evenjail time at the Colorado Springs airport, which is home to both Army and AirForce bases. A drop box located at theairport where travelers can dispose of weed has yet to receive any pot.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airportsecurity personnel requires travelers to empty water bottles, but when theydiscover personal amounts of marijuana, it is rare that the DEA or FBI isnotified. Pot cases are usually handedover to local police who have little recourse in Colorado and Washington. At the Sea-Tac airport police only arrest orinvestigate passengers if they become combative, belligerent, or carry largeamounts of cash.
The Port of Denver has banned pot at Denver Internationaland can fine offending travelers up to $999 for transporting pot. To date, no one has been fined.
The real challenge for passengers who transport pot via aplane in Colorado and Washington is when they arrive at theirdestinations. Pot possession becomesillegal as soon as a plane touches down in any of the other 48 states.
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