Rental Car Agencies Now Dumping Grounds For Pot
DENVER (CBS4)- Rental car workers at Denver International Airport say pot tourists are regularly leaving them with marijuana that travelers don't want to try to carry through DIA.
"It happens quite often," a rental car employee at a national chain told a CBS4 employee. "Every couple of days. I just throw it in the trash."
At another major rental car agency on rental car row at the airport, a worker said, "It happens pretty often. More during the weekends. Probably like four times a day. Me, I just throw it away. I don't know about the others."
"It's illegal for you to take it across state lines and since we are an airport, we're not going to facilitate the transportation of marijuana illegally," said Stacey Stegman, a spokesperson for DIA.
Stegman said since January, DIA authorities have caught 16 people trying to go through a security checkpoint with marijuana. She said the airport could cite the travelers, but instead chooses to have them dump their marijuana in the trash.
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