Originally posted by *CrystalMeth Bunny*:
No, just someone who doesn't care about their personal freedom. Pills I can understand, but with weed it just boils down to you being lazy.
While many other illegal drugs will take a little bit of work to purchase, you can score weed within three hours hanging around most city bus stations.
If I'm going to commit a federal felony, it's not going to be in an airport with tons of heavily armed, dimwitted security. Have fun using the "real criminals" line on cops, because that's a surefire way to get arrested. I'm assuming bomb-sniffing dogs can sniff for drugs, too. At least weed, being that everyone and their mother knows what that looks like.
Actually, by trying to score weed of some folks at a bus station you are taking FAR more risk and having to go through far more hassle. (By the way, have you ever been to a Greyhound Bus Station? There are some FUCKED up people riding busses. I'll risk the fucking felony.)
Effigy was dead on with his post, take his advice...
I've seen quite a few people traveling post 9/11 that have taken contraband with them on domestic flights with no problem. (Remember, this really applies only to domestic flights, if you fly internationally you go through customs, and you have a lot more chance of getting caught).
Also, NO the vast majority of the time bomb sniffing dogs are NOT trained to detect drugs as well, there is a reason for this (I mentioned it the can dogs smell LSD thread in Psych):
When dogs are trained to detect undesirable items, they are trained to typically respond to stimulus in 2 manners: Active or Passive.
When dogs are trained to detect drugs, they are trained respond actively. That means they attack the item in question in order to find locate the drugs. (Watch the show COPS) When dogs are passivley trained, they are trained to singal that an item is in question but NOT to approach or come into contact with the item. This is how bomb-sniffing dogs are trained.
Obviously, when sniffing for bombs you don't want the dog to go batshit nuts over a package and try to rip into it, only to possibly set of the explosive device.
Now, it's possible to train a dog to passivley detect for drugs, and then he can be trained for explosives as well, but these are pretty rare to actually come in contact with.
[ 04 February 2002: Message edited by: Brainrape ]