Cannabis boxes are latest amenity at Chicago airports O’Hare and Midway
By TIM ROSTAN
MANAGING EDITOR
Published: Jan 7, 2020 6:15 p.m. ET
‘Cannabis amnesty box.’
That’s the text emblazoned on a new physical feature that’s cropped up this year at Chicago’s heavily trafficked airports in the wake of the state’s legalization on Jan. 1 of recreational marijuana, as Block Club Chicago and other local media outlets have noted.
Did you pack weed in your carry-on? O’Hare and Midway airports now have boxes for dumping your recreational marijuana before boarding a plane. https://t.co/ArPYvkKjqJ— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) January 7, 2020
It’s not illegal to possess cannabis at O’Hare or Midway or other Illinois airports, and the Chicago police aren’t looking to identify travelers with cannabis, the Chicago Tribune reported, citing a police-department spokeswoman. Likewise, a blog post on the TSA website indicates the agency does not target cannabis in screening travelers and their luggage. But, as the possession of marijuana is illegal under federal law, and air space is regulated by the federal government, travelers who do not unburden themselves of any unconsumed product are likely onboarding some risk.
Airlines including United UAL, -1.06% , American AAL, -0.37% and Alaska ALK, -0.63% are on record as saying they’d prefer passengers not be holding, citing federal law.
Associated PressA long line of recreational-marijuana customers awaiting the opening on Jan. 1 of the Sunnyside dispensary in Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood.
Airports in Colorado and elsewhere have previously put in place similar receptacles for travelers suddenly possessed by the realization that they have arrived at the airport for travel to a destination where a product they are carrying will be illegal. After all, it’s not as easy or socially accepted to consume the remainder of a bag of marijuana while you remove your shoes and belt and place your belongings on the security-screening conveyor belt as it is, arguably, to guzzle the bottom half of that LaCroix. And the stakes are, if you will, higher.
Airports in Colorado and elsewhere have previously put in place similar receptacles for travelers suddenly possessed by the realization that they have arrived at the airport for travel to a destination where a product they are carrying will be illegal. After all, it’s not as easy or socially accepted to consume the remainder of a bag of marijuana while you remove your shoes and belt and place your belongings on the security-screening conveyor belt as it is, arguably, to guzzle the bottom half of that LaCroix. And the stakes are, if you will, higher.
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