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TSA Updated Its Weed Policy: Here’s How to Travel High This Summer

Here’s what canna-travelers should know, plus the best smell-proof bags, cases, and stash kits.

By Maha Haq | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan

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Airport weed culture has changed a lot over the last few years, even if federal law hasn’t exactly kept up. Plenty of people are already traveling with gummies, vape pens, pre-rolls, rosin jars, and small mylar bags of flower the same way they travel with chapsticks, snacks, or nicotine pouches. TSA’s latest cannabis update feels like another sign that the government at least realizes this is happening.

TSA recently updated its “What Can I Bring?” page to list medical marijuana as allowed in both carry-on and checked bags with “Special Instructions.” That wording alone has been enough to send the cannabis community into a spiral, because for years most people have operated under the assumption that bringing any kind of weed to the airport was automatically a terrible idea and needs to be concealed among makeup or toiletry bags. The reality is a little more complicated than that.

So no, this isn’t some massive federal green light to start stuffing your carry-on with ounces of flower before a Vegas trip (which people have been doing anyways). But it does feel a bit less aggressive than how airport cannabis conversations used to go. And TSA kind of had to address it eventually.

Cannabis and hemp products have become so normalized that the average........

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