Can you fly with pot? Here’s what the TSA says

(WJW) – Ohio is 1 of the astir caller states to legalize recreational marijuana. About fractional the US has legalized recreational marijuana, and much states person legalized marijuana for aesculapian use.

So, what does that mean for you erstwhile you’re flying to spot friends and household for the holidays – oregon immoderate different clip of year?

Can I question connected a level with marijuana?

The abbreviated reply is no. Most cannabis products stay amerciable nether national law. Since TSA information is nether national jurisdiction, bringing marijuana done a TSA checkpoint could pb to transgression charges.

Here’s the TSA’s authoritative statement connected traveling with marijuana – which applies to some carry-on and checked bags.

Marijuana and certain cannabis-infused products, including immoderate Cannabidiol (CBD) oil, remain amerciable nether national instrumentality but for products that incorporate nary much than 0.3 percent THC connected a adust value ground oregon that are approved by FDA. (See the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, Pub. L. 115-334.)  TSA officers are required to study immoderate suspected violations of instrumentality to local, authorities oregon national authorities. 

TSA’s screening procedures are focused connected information and are designed to observe imaginable threats to aviation and passengers. Accordingly, TSA information officers bash not hunt for marijuana oregon different amerciable drugs, but if immoderate amerciable substance is discovered during information screening, TSA volition notation the substance to a instrumentality enforcement officer.

TSA notes that its employees are not trained for cause screening and that they’re looking for information threats, not drugs.

Will marijuana yet beryllium allowed?

The rules volition apt alteration if marijuana is reclassified.

Marijuana is a Schedule I substance nether the Controlled Substances Act.

In the spring, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration projected to displacement marijuana from a Schedule I drug, which includes heroin and LSD, to a little tightly regulated “Schedule III” drug, which includes ketamine and immoderate anabolic steroids.

Federal rules let for immoderate aesculapian uses of Schedule III drugs.

The projected alteration faces a lengthy regulatory process, and there’s nary timeline for the alteration arsenic of now.