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At the airport: Check your bags — and trash your weed

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Airports in states that have legal marijuana laws are installing drop boxes to dump the dope

LAS VEGAS — Check your bags, dump the weed.

McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas is now offering travelers a chance to dispose of any marijuana they might have on them before hopping onto a flight. So-called “amnesty boxes” have been installed at the airport and soon will be located at smaller airports in North Las Vegas and Henderson — 20 dope boxes in all.

More than half are already in place at various passenger drop-off sites and airport car rental sites.

Christine Crews, spokeswoman for McCarran, said the boxes were installed Friday after the Clark County Commission voted last year to ban marijuana possession on airport property to keep the facility in line with federal law.

Possession of marijuana for recreational use was legalized by Nevada voters in 2016 and took effect Jan. 1, 2017, despite the drug still being classified as illegal under federal law. Nevada and seven other states along with Washington, D.C., currently allow marijuana to be sold for recreational consumption.

Las Vegas isn’t the first airport to offer amnesty buckets for travelers to dispose of their weed.

After Colorado legalized recreational marijuana six years ago, the Colorado Springs Airport set up amnesty boxes for people to dump their marijuana before takeoff.

But the state’s largest airport, Denver International, chose not to adopt such a plan, spokeswoman Stacey Stegman said in an email.

“We’ve had very few instances of people coming to a checkpoint with MJ (marijuana). If they do, they are asked to discard it and the police confiscate it,” she said. “No one has been in trouble for this. Also, we’ve not had problems with discarded MJ. All has gone well.”

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