Can Truckers legally deliver Marijuana in states where it's legal

We actually had a grower contact us about hauling a load. The conversation didn't last very long.

 

A friend told me a while back a broker was trying to get a stranded load out of Louisiana. Seems that the OO that had it had a medical emergency and was in the hospital. I think @Ridgeline can identify with this. This guy first really did not run there so there was nobody close to get the load. Then he developed a bad feeling about it, just sensed it was going to be more trouble then it was worth. He told me he will never know what the load was. However he remembered later that broker was not doing that job anymore and one of the Louisiana Parish sheriff's did find a load of that crap about that same time. Coincidence maybe? Your guess is as good as mine!

 

I know a guy who does it. How legal his operation is, I'm not sure. He has an old Ryder truck, and he has an FHWA annual sticker on it, but I didn't notice any USDOT or ICC/MC numbers on it. I know when I owned end dumps in North Carolina, some of the local only companies would get a single state fuel tax sticker, and run under a state exemption number, rather than a USDOT number. I had IFTA and USDOT, since my trucks also worked in Virginia and Florida. Then I was bought out by a construction company who needed a USDOT number ASAP for a big job they were bidding on, and buying a company out was a quicker route for them than applying for their own was.

I don't know if Colorado or any of the other '420' states have something like that, where they can operate under a state exemption number, rather than a USDOT number. I know if I was operating as an interstate carrier, I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Not in a scenario where the feds have as much oversight of my operation as they did with any interstate carrier. Even as a non-ICC carrier, I'd be hesitant to drive it on any Interstate highway. To me, it's just asking for trouble. I have a feeling it's a very niche business, and most of the transport of it probably isn't done in particularly strict accordance with CFR49. I'd be willing to bet you probably have more growers transporting it in their personal vehicles to their buyers or some friend with a van transporting it as "a favor" than any actual commercial carriers delivering to dispensaries. Then again, I could be wrong... maybe there's a niche industry in place for this. I just know I haven't yet seen box trucks or semis unloading at a dispensary.

When Colorado passed Amendment 64, it seems like it really wasn't done with much of a strategy put in place outside of the zoning and taxation of it. For example, if you use it medically, you get a red card here, and if you try to buy a firearm, that shows up and you get denied - as per USC18§922(g)(3) - but there is no such card for recreational use, and that to me just leaves a loose end for the feds to exploit. Then there's also the question of armed guards in dispensaries, since they're protecting what's an illegal operation as per federal law, and they really lurk where the law as is has left a bit of a grey area. I feel like transporting it - even within the state - lurks in a similar grey area, and one I wouldn't want to be caught in if it suddenly were turned black.

 

Pot isn’t grown legally in TN. They did just make it legal to grow hemp, but haven’t even issued permits for that yet.

I’d think you would be a fool to transport pot across state lines, or even haul it intrastate with apportioned tags. It’s just a good way to go to prison for a long time. Regardless of which states have legalized pot, it’s still illegal on a federal level.

I’d suspect most of the “legal” pot is transported in the back seat of a car, or passenger van at most, not class 8 trucks.

 

yes i would not haul it

 

"For example, if you use it medically, you get a red card here, and if you try to buy a firearm, that shows up and you get denied - as per USC18§922(g)(3)"

Now that's messed up. They should deny firearms to anyone who uses alcohol. They are the ones who make very poor decisions, beat their wives, rape their children, usually arrested standing in the middle of the road trying to start a fight with a mail box. The absolutely worst offenders right up there with crackheads.
Pot head offence,,maybe wrestling with a homie over the last Ding Dong in the box

 

I heard radio show about the Colorado market. All the marijuana sold in Colorado has to be grown in state.

I think they said most sales are made within 50 miles of production.

 

something i will ever do

 

California pot is shipped all over the country but the pot industry itself is in trouble. When all the other states legalized personal use California's market share took a big hit. No pun intended.
The local growers have to sign up with the state, county and and city government, pay taxes, remediate the ground they've torn up and the stream beds they've diverted, and the remove the waste they've dumped. The environmental damage from illicit pot growers is beyond belief.
I don't know how large amounts of pot gets transported and it's not something I'm curious about either. Some things, the less I know about the better off I'll be.

 

I don't think there's any problem really. I hear about tons of drivers haulin' reefer.

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