Last week, Portland International became the first airport in the nation to explicitly permit passengers to fly with weed. The new airport policy was posted to the Port of Portland website a few days after the use of cannabis products by any adult over 21 years old .听
Before jumping on a plane with your bud, here鈥檚 what you need to know.
First, you can only be flying within the state of Oregon. It鈥檚 still not okay聽to bring weed on out-of-state聽flights, even to other post-legalization places like Alaska, Colorado, Washington, and the District of Columbia.听
Second, be prepared to get stopped. Even though the TSA , weed is still against federal law, and if the TSA finds it they are required to send you to the local police. But the new policy in Portland states that airport police will only check to make sure you鈥檙e carrying a legal amount of cannabis products鈥攎aybe budget some extra time to clear security if you're holding.
And third, you still have to be discreet. The only place marijuana can be out in the open is at security.
Flying with weed isn鈥檛 exactly illegal in the other jurisdictions with legal pot.听Seattle-Tacoma in Washington, Dulles and Reagan in Washington, D.C., and Anchorage in Alaska have no specific policy for or against flying with weed, so your rights are less clear. Like so much in the new world of legal recreational marijuana, it鈥檚 still a bit up in the air.听