Part grand social experiment, part technological marvel and part dystopian capitalist nightmare, the airport is in many ways ideal for marijuana.<\/p>\n
At the airport, there are interminable waits, frenzied rushes, unexpected and unexplained stressors, and soul-grinding battles with faceless and inscrutable bureaucracies. These come in waves, one after the other, sometimes in predictable sequence, sometimes with a shift in pattern as to maximize psychological impact. Hovering all of the above is a sense of profound powerlessness. The traveler has little choice other than to open the wallet and surrender to fate. There is a reason why the airport bar is always crowded.<\/p>\n
It is the same reason why many of us flat-out refuse to fly or even contemplate the act without a\u00a0vaporizer<\/a>, a fistful of\u00a0edibles<\/a>, some\u00a0CBD<\/a>\u00a0drops or a\u00a0dab<\/a>\u00a0in the car on the way to the terminal. Flying can be appalling; weed makes it less so. Cannabis and flying pair well together \u2014 surprisingly well, despite years of prohibitionist conditioning that still persuades us otherwise. This is no secret nor accident, and so it was only a matter of time before an airport adapted to the marijuana legalization era and allowed marijuana users to smoke or vape cannabis in the same places cigarette users enjoy these privileges,\u00a0as Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is now doing.<\/a><\/p>\n Cannabis became legal for adults in Canada on Oct. 17. And though an accommodating attitude towards cannabis was already baked into the culture of Vancouver, a cosmopolitan, temperate-climate city on the Pacific Coast (the \u201cSan Francisco of Canada,\u201d the \u201cSeattle of Canada,\u201d the \u201cyour-liberal-city-of-choice-of-Canada\u201d) it was still significant for the airport, Canada\u2019s second-busiest by volume,\u00a0to update its policies last month to explicitly accommodate marijuana use<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cSmoking and vaping of cannabis is permitted on airport property in designated areas only \u2014 outside the terminal building in clearly marked areas,\u201d the airport\u2019s website says. \u201cPersons smoking or vaping cannabis must use the facilities provided.\u201d<\/p>\n As for traveling with the stuff, all the usual rules apply, which is to say the usual hodgepodge of rules that are often enforced erratically apply. Flying across international borders with weed is illegal but not necessarily likely to cause any trouble, depending on how much you have, what you look like, or how much of an attitude the local authorities choose to cop; flying around in Canada with weed is fine but there is some subtle and not-so-subtle differences in provincial law. (Example: The federal minimum age to possess cannabis is 18, but the law in British Columbia, where Vancouver is located, is 19).<\/p>\n You could fool yourself into thinking that allowing cannabis users to smoke where tobacco users smoke isn\u2019t that big of a deal. Cosmically, it is not \u2014 it\u2019s common sense. Culturally and contextually, it\u2019s significant. Consumption has long been the black swan of marijuana legalization everywhere the experiment has been tried. For an airport to acknowledge this and officially adopt a common-sense solution is a new thing. And this is not something American airports have done. Indeed, Denver International Airport went ahead to declare itself exceptional among Colorado locales as a legalization-exempt zone.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s another reason why this is bigger than just an airport being less intolerable. Dozens of international carriers fly in and out of Vancouver. Airports are nothing if not contagion accelerators. Thanks to Vancouver, literal millions of people every year will see people smoking weed outside, as if it were no big deal \u2014 and it\u2019s not.\u00a0That\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0huge. Thanks, Vancouver!<\/p>\n TELL US,<\/b>\u00a0do you think being able to smoke marijuana at an airport is a big deal?<\/p>\n The post The Most Marijuana Friendly Airport in the World<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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