{"id":40524,"date":"2025-12-05T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/?p=40524"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:40:28","slug":"airport-cannabis-horror-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/airport-cannabis-horror-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When You Get Caught With Weed At The Airport? Real Stories From Reddit Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flying with cannabis is federally illegal, but it certainly hasn\u2019t stopped some dedicated tokers from bringing their contraband with them on trips. Although TSA allegedly doesn\u2019t <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">really <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">care about a joint or two as long as you\u2019re discreet, there\u2019s always some risk if you try it \u2013 as evidenced by these stories we\u2019ve collected from people who have either flown with weed themselves or witnessed the misfortunes of others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether you enjoy taking that risk or have sworn vehemently to never attempt it, the following tales about the woes of weary (and high) travelers are sure to amuse, confuse, and leave you wondering: \u201cWhy would anyone do this?\u201d They also serve as an excellent reminder of what <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to do when preparing for your own holiday trips.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>(Almost) Grounded Flights<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, Reddit user substandardhelp <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SouthwestAirlines\/comments\/1fw82jc\/vaping_weed_before_takeoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an incident with another passenger that could have easily grounded the plane. He wrote:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On my flight home Sunday, a passenger sitting in the aisle seat in my row went to the bathroom in front before the cabin door closed. When he came out, the whole cabin immediately smelled like weed. He casually cruised back to his seat and was immediately asked by the flight attendant to head back to the front of the plane. He was scolded by the pilot and flight attendant for 5 minutes or so, but they let him stay on the plane.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said he just admitted it to the pilot and flight attendant, said sorry, and promised them he wouldn\u2019t be an issue.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guy orders a beer. Which, in my opinion, is a bold move.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we landed, the dude got another tongue-lashing by the pilot.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To us, this sounds like getting off easy. A similar incident from earlier this year, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/unitedairlines\/comments\/1mihaf3\/ua1679_delayed_due_to_passenger_smoking_weed_in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">documented by james63111<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, didn\u2019t have as fortunate an outcome:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40528 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/flight-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"delayed flight\" width=\"891\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/flight-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/flight-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/flight-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/flight-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/flight.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, our flight was delayed due to technical issues. Then, while waiting for the paperwork to get completed, someone smoked weed in the front bathrooms. They got removed from the flight, then we sat on the plane for 40-ish minutes waiting for the crew to figure out what to do. The crew was concerned they got exposed, so we deplaned and are awaiting a new crew.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quote from the captain, \u201cI have 30 years left of my career at United, I\u2019m not willing to risk getting drug tested when I get to Houston.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently sitting in the terminal at SFO, no sign of a new crew yet. Original departure 8:50 am, current estimated departure 12:30 pm. Given a $15 meal voucher and they have rolled out a snack cart at the gate.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did that plane ever take off? We may never know. Moral of the story: always vape <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">before <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">boarding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Near Misses\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every now and then, cannabis enthusiasts get very lucky at airport security. Some report TSA agents who simply don\u2019t care, while others look right at the product without realizing what they are seeing. Reddit user in-fused told their story on such an occurrence, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/trees\/comments\/1c738u4\/have_any_stories_involving_traveling_with_weed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">writing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One time, I was traveling with 100 THC vape carts. Had them in my bag that was to be checked. I had to drop off my rental, then proceed to the gate. Yeah, well, the gate from the rental took me right into security since this was such a small airport. (In FL of all places).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Had an older security lady at the gate, and tried explaining to her that this was my bag needing to be checked in, not a carry-on. Didn&#8217;t matter. She had me open the bag and search it. She found the carts, so I immediately told her that I owned a CBD company and they were CBD vapes (this was 2018, before the Farm Bill). I just opened my CBD company a few months before that, so that part was true.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her eyes lit up, and she started asking so many questions about CBD, saying she heard it&#8217;s very helpful and she&#8217;d like to try some. Just so happens I had a bottle of my CBD oil on me. So I gave it to her with my card. Pretty sure she ordered from us a few times after that.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the same thread, user w3tdr34m5 found fortune with security \u2013 only to run into another issue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lived in LA for about 6 months back in 2014. When I decided to move back to New York, I used a delivery service to bring me a couple bags of infused sour patch kid gummies. In all of my genius, I thought to myself, &#8220;Hey, if I get a regular bag of sour patch kids, TSA would be less likely to be weirded out by a bag of those, versus a Ziploc full of loose sour patch kids.\u201d I did just that, made it on the plane fine, and all was well. Until I realized I now have a bag of Russian roulette sour patch kids, and to top it all off? I grabbed the sugar-free ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve never been more high, and I&#8217;ve never sh*t more in my entire life. I was in the bathroom so much that the flight attendants got an on-board EMT to check my vitals. Had to explain I was just super high and that I just scarfed a load of sugar-free gummies.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h2><b>The Art of The Secret Stash\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fear of getting caught has led to some very creative \u2013 and sometimes bizarre \u2013 methods of hiding cannabis in luggage. Reddit user Lumpy_Constellation recalled her own successful attempt in one <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/entwives\/comments\/1c737ei\/good_morning_have_any_stories_involving_traveling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">thread<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, writing:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-40527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/women-with-a-backpack-at-the-airport-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"woman with a backpack at the airport\" width=\"863\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/women-with-a-backpack-at-the-airport-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/women-with-a-backpack-at-the-airport-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/women-with-a-backpack-at-the-airport-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/women-with-a-backpack-at-the-airport-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/women-with-a-backpack-at-the-airport.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 863px) 100vw, 863px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The one time I traveled with flower &#8211; my ex and I were going to visit my family on the East Coast (we&#8217;re CA-bred). About a month before our trip, my aunt casually asked if we&#8217;d be bringing our little terrier mix along. I hadn&#8217;t thought of it, but she said he&#8217;d be more than welcome, and he was small enough to be a carry-on and very well-behaved, so we decided he would join us. In preparation for the trip, I bought a fancy treat carrier that could fit enough dog food for a few days and a matching collapsible water bowl.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we got to our destination, my ex and I decided we&#8217;d find some flower. We got 1\/8 and enjoyed ourselves thoroughly, but we were only there for about a week and couldn&#8217;t smoke when we were with my family, so we ended up with maybe 2g left over.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we were trying to come up with a solution, I remembered that security was different with a dog &#8211; rather than have the little pooches go through the usual bag scanner, airport security requested that they be taken out of their carrier and their human would walk with the dog and the carrier through the standard metal detectors.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I decided to put our weed (in a plastic bag) down into the very bottom of my pup&#8217;s fancy new treat bag, and we covered it entirely in dog food, like stuffed the treat bag full of treats and crunches. My anxiety levels matched the bag as I took my sweet angel pup (totally oblivious to being a mule) and his carrier, with a treat bag in the side pocket, right through the metal detector. And&#8230;nothing. TA smiled at us, told me my dog was cute and well-behaved, and that was it.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read more about the legality of flying with marijuana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/can-you-travel-on-a-plane-with-medical-marijuana\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>Mile High Mishaps\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While most people\u2019s concerns lie with TSA, others fly with no fear \u2013 namely, celebrities on private jets. Lil Wayne, Trippie Redd, and Joey Diaz have all been reported for cannabis use on planes, but one of the most high-profile stories came from Justin Bieber in 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2014\/02\/justin-bieber-pot-plane?srsltid=AfmBOopwW1c6g-c9BO-S9Sj90pE9eskvPB6EK5EW0IqCqhSP8wElUhTx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vanity Fair reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the pop star was en route to the Super Bowl with his father when they decided to hotbox their plane \u2013 so strongly that the pilots had to don their oxygen masks to avoid a secondhand high. When they landed, DEA agents searched the plane, but no drugs were found. Either Bieber is really good at hiding his cannabis, or he and his father smoked all of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enjoying weed on a flight is more common than you may think, but most people use a more discreet form: edibles. Unfortunately, overdoing it with edibles is easy, and a lot of Reddit users have laughed about the time they got a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">little <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">too high in the sky. MicroPlasticCoin <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/trees\/comments\/1khxlz3\/took_3_edibles_thinking_they_were_5mg_they_are_20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They sat me next to the emergency exit once, and as soon as they gave me the spiel, [the weed] hit me like a ton of bricks. I had a panic attack every 5 minutes on the flight because I thought the emergency exit was gonna randomly swing open.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another contributor, who shall remain anonymous, told me:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had a red-eye flight across the country once, and I really wanted to sleep during it so I could go to work the next day. I had some old 175 milligram delta-9 gummies with me, and one that was 20 milligrams. I took what I thought was the 20 milligram gummy\u2026turns out, I ate the wrong one.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40526 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sleeping-on-flight-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"man sleeping on flight\" width=\"875\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sleeping-on-flight-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sleeping-on-flight-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sleeping-on-flight-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sleeping-on-flight-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.veriheal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sleeping-on-flight.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I got so stoned that I couldn\u2019t sleep and was super anxious, so I just pretended to doze against the window so flight attendants wouldn\u2019t talk to me. The worst part was that I tried to play music and couldn\u2019t tell if it was coming from my phone or my headphones. I was so scared of drawing attention to myself if I was wrong that I just sat in silence for the entire flight.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Needless to say, I did not work the next day.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h2><b>Final Boarding Call\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the end, these stories are a good reminder that flying with weed is always a gamble, even if most people walk away with nothing more than a wild tale to tell later. It\u2019s worth remembering how quickly travel can turn chaotic once cannabis gets involved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you take anything from these tales, let it be a little perspective \u2013 and maybe a reminder to keep your weed gummies separated from any normal ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying with cannabis is federally illegal, but it certainly hasn\u2019t stopped some dedicated tokers from bringing their contraband with them on trips. Although TSA allegedly doesn\u2019t really care about a joint or two as long as you\u2019re discreet, there\u2019s always some risk if you try it \u2013 as evidenced by these stories we\u2019ve collected from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":40525,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17911,254],"tags":[18786,18792,2128,18789,18787,18790,18331,18330,18791,18788],"class_list":["post-40524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-lifestyle","tag-airport-cannabis-horror-stories","tag-airport-weed-incidents","tag-cannabis-culture","tag-cannabis-legality","tag-cannabis-travel-stories","tag-flying-high-stories","tag-flying-with-weed","tag-tsa-cannabis-rules","tag-tsa-weed-experiences","tag-weed-airport-mishaps"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Airport Cannabis Horror Stories &amp; Tips | Veriheal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Flying with weed can lead to chaos, and funny mishaps. 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