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Title: Can you smoke a day or two before flying without setting off drug dogs?
Post by: Rowsdower on October 01, 2012, 11:40 am
The last few times I've had to walk past drug dogs at airports I've traveled to,  they've alerted on me every time even though I wasn't carrying anything.  The only thing I can think of is that they're somehow smelling the fact that I smoked a day or two before, even though I'd been wearing different clothes and had a shower since.  This is incredibly frustrating because I've had to go through very invasive searches and the airport staff immediately get excited and start interrogating//threatening me as if they're sure I'm carrying something.  There's no apologies of course when they find nothing after wasting hours of my time.  I used to take benzos with me when I'd fly but I can't do that anymore since I'm so likely to get searched.  I really dread seeing drug dogs every time now even when I have nothing as I've come to expect them to alert on me every time.  I fly a lot so this is really aggravating.

Has anyone else had this problem?  Is it possible to smoke a day before flying, or two days before flying without setting off drug dogs?  Should I just stick with edibles in the days before I fly?  I'm going to Korea later this year and I've heard that there you can be imprisoned for a long time just for having weed in your system in a drug test.  So obviously I'm not going to smoke for like a month before I go there just in case the goddamn drug dogs alert on me as usual.
Title: Re: Can you smoke a day or two before flying without setting off drug dogs?
Post by: Errl_Kushman on October 01, 2012, 04:34 pm
The last few times I've had to walk past drug dogs at airports I've traveled to,  they've alerted on me every time even though I wasn't carrying anything.  The only thing I can think of is that they're somehow smelling the fact that I smoked a day or two before, even though I'd been wearing different clothes and had a shower since.  This is incredibly frustrating because I've had to go through very invasive searches and the airport staff immediately get excited and start interrogating//threatening me as if they're sure I'm carrying something.  There's no apologies of course when they find nothing after wasting hours of my time.  I used to take benzos with me when I'd fly but I can't do that anymore since I'm so likely to get searched.  I really dread seeing drug dogs every time now even when I have nothing as I've come to expect them to alert on me every time.  I fly a lot so this is really aggravating.

Has anyone else had this problem?  Is it possible to smoke a day before flying, or two days before flying without setting off drug dogs?  Should I just stick with edibles in the days before I fly?  I'm going to Korea later this year and I've heard that there you can be imprisoned for a long time just for having weed in your system in a drug test.  So obviously I'm not going to smoke for like a month before I go there just in case the goddamn drug dogs alert on me as usual.

So, the real issue is: are the drug dogs actually alerting to something or are they false positives? They most certainly can smell it, no problem. The fact is, at-least in the US, the vast majority of dogs in Airports are sniffing for explosives, not drugs.

Funny you should bring this up, I was having a conversation about my travels through airports and being flagged. Dozens upon dozens of times I've smoked a big fatty in the car on the way to catch my flight. Sometimes I've forgotten about extra "emergency" joint's I stayed in my bag and made it no problem. Never in those situations has a dog ever alerted to me, even as it passes within inches of me and my bags. 

I did however get singled out once coming into the US international, at a very hot airport as far as smuggling is concerned.  I'm fairly certain the protocol was the run the dogs past all bags as they came through customs. The prior week, in a private villa type deal we smoked at least 6oz, all right next to our luggage, etc. Those border patrol pricks waited for us to touch our luggage, asked us to follow them and proceeded to rip through every single stitch of our belongings.

Bottom line, yes, given the right set of circumstances (clothes, what you've touched, etc), yes they could hit. But, its my experience that while traveling US domestic, most dogs are looking for bomb making material these days. Christ, if the dogs hit on everyone that  smoked a joint prior to flight we'd never get through security. ;-)
Title: Re: Can you smoke a day or two before flying without setting off drug dogs?
Post by: treeline on October 01, 2012, 06:11 pm
also consider the fact that several states have medical marijuana programs/laws which means that some people who walk into the airport will have been smoking pot legally, prior to getting there ... so if the dogs were primarily there for this purpose, then they'd be going crazy!
Title: Re: Can you smoke a day or two before flying without setting off drug dogs?
Post by: darthvaderstar on October 01, 2012, 07:15 pm
how is flying international with benzos like? is it easy?