The Street writes
Carnival has recently stepped up its efforts to keep all cannabis products off its cruise ships, adding drug-sniffing dogs in its departure terminals and on its ships.
The cruise line has a zero-tolerance policy, which includes not just smokeable marijuana but also edibles, CBD products and anything else that’s a derivative of cannabis.
Those rules do not change when cruise ships leave from ports where recreational marijuana has been legalized. All the major cruise lines follow U.S. federal law when it comes to cannabis.
That means that even people who have valid prescriptions for marijuana from a doctor cannot bring pot and derivatives on board. That’s because federal law trumps local law and the penalty for violating the rules can include a fine and/or being kicked off the ship without a refund.
This has always been the policy for all sailings out of the U.S., but anyone who has a nose and has been on a Carnival Cruise Line (CCL) or Royal Caribbean (RCL) ship knows that until recently enforcement has been lax.
That’s no longer the case, and while Carnival has been the most vocal about the steps it’s taking to keep cannabis off its ships, Royal Caribbean has also stepped up enforcement.
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https://www.thestreet.com/travel/legally-smoke-marijuana-while-on-a-carnival-or-any-other-cruise
