Don’t let a Border Patrol agent know you’ve got marijuana, regardless of whether you have a prescription, if you don’t want to lose it, the Border Patrol warns.
“We are not going out looking for it, but if an agent is helping a driver change a tire along the border and the driver lights up a joint, by law, we must seize it,” Chief Patrol Agent Daniel Hiebert said Monday at a press conference at the Bangor International Airport.
Maine voters in November made it legal for adults 21 or older to possess 2.5 ounces of marijuana. The state legalized the drug for medical use in 1999, but access wasn’t settled until 2009.
Marijuana possession still is illegal under federal law, which categorizes it as a Schedule I drug, just like heroin, morphine, LSD, peyote and oxycodone.
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