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My son got stopped at an immigration checkpoint. He was freaking out because he had a weed vape in his pocket. After a car search they realized that the k9 alerted on his dog who was in heat.
FYI, if you are in the US, "legal weed" is a misnomer, it's still a controlled substance on the federal level and technically illegal to possess. If you aren't a Citizen, please don't let the authorities find out about any weed you use, they'll literally try to deport you for a victimless "crime". If you are naturalized, do not admit to have used weed before your oath ceremony. I disagree with the law as it is, but just letting y'all know.
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more like stupid. do not carry illegal weed vapes through the immigration checkpoint and you don't want to freak out. it is what i would do if i really wanted to immigrate somewhere.
Immigration checkpoints in Southern California aren't just for immigrants. They stop everyone to scan for immigrants, and you have to pass through them when you go to certain places. Weed vapes are legal under state law in California, but illegal under Federal law.
ok, interesting trivia i wasn't aware of, but it really doesn't change much, the core of the problem still is:
Texas. Driving north from padre there's a stop. They normally just wave you through. A friend came through it last year with 14 guns in the car. She told them and they waved her through- didn't even open the trunk. Vapes, edibles, and weed are legally shipped to most states but that doesn't mean police won't fuck with you over it. They asked if he had any drugs, guns, explosives, or people in the car that they couldn't see. He said he had a cbd vape. They didn't care - just started searching the car where their dog alerted.
well if it is known point, that is even more reason not to tempt a fate. i am sorry you are in a situation your country is right now and i swear i am not trying to be an asshole, but it really is a no-brainer for me.
Not all of them are in fixed locations. Some of them are pop-ups, like a DUI checkpoint.
FWIW (and tangentially related), anyone traveling with weed is best served by keeping it in the trunk, rather than in the passenger compartment. Police have more freedom to go through the passenger compartment under the guise of concern over weapons that might be used against them, as opposed in the trunk, which can be viewed as a separate container and is less likely to be searched.
Ah, another ulterior motive for the rise of SUVs and crossovers.
I love how I live under such a fascist dictatorship that someone not from here can’t even begin to comprehend what life is like here…like it’s just baffling to normal people that our lived experience is even possible to exist haha.
…please send international aid.
Meh. Fuck the state.
if you're gonna do it, at least do it semi-smart
bury it in a trash bag in your trunk or something and claim it's from cleaning up road side debris
yeah. but we are talking about real world here, not your teenage anarchist wet dream. and in the real world, unfortunately, it is always the state which ends up fucking you, it is never the other way around. see, the person in the story, no matter whether real or imaginary, wanted to emigrate from somewhere and the reason was probably... guess what - the state.
The checkpoint is in Texas about an hour north of Padre. Just driving home from the beach.