PLEASE PUT YOUR SEATS IN THE UPRIGHT POSITION AND PUT DOWN THE BONG AS THE FLIGHT PREPARES FOR LANDING

PLEASE PUT YOUR SEATS IN THE UPRIGHT POSITION AND PUT DOWN THE BONG AS THE FLIGHT PREPARES FOR LANDING

That was a needlessly long title for this article. But I guess I couldn't do it with less, so why bother getting hung up about it. It was fitting since the idea here is that California has currently a legalized marijuana laws, meaning you can carry it and unless your selling it, you can light up without much fuss.

Well now LAX allows you through the Proposition 64 measure, which legalized the substance, to enact a policy where you can now bring weed with them to the airport if you're 21 and older. The max amount you can bring though, is about an ounce of it or 8 grams of it if it's condensed down.

The flip side of all this is that it may very well be pointless anyway if you're flying anywhere outside of California. Because while it's legal to smoke pot in your private residence in, say, Denver, Co., it's still a federal crime to posses it. And given that TSA agents are part of the federal government, you can't have pot in the airports of most places were it is now legal. So I guess this only really is beneficial if you are flying from L.A. to S.F. or some nonsense like that.

Another factor to consider. TSA spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said that the agents won't take it away but will summon the police and let them deal with it. I'm sorry, but even a chance encounter with a cop is one encounter I don't want to deal with.

It's nice to know that TSA is focusing their efforts on the important stuff like terrorism and security threats that their creation was made for post 9-11, but come the fuck on, why do you gotta snitch on the average stoner who is just carrying an ounce of weed on them? Sure, if they're not carrying more than an ounce, the police will turn them loose, but that seems like a fucking mess of paper work and a waste of time on the officers. Sure, TSA can go back to grabbing people's junks - But I imagine that those officers probably had a lot better things to do with their time than have it pissed away by these folks.

So I say, that if you read an article that states you can or should take pot to the airport of LAX, I say it's better to just leave it at home. No point in giving yourself unneeded headaches on this whole matter. Why bother a small penalty or even just having to throw the weed away? Just seems like a waste of time and not worth dying on that hill, if you know what I'm saying.