Been on 3 cruises myself, all to the Caribbean. My advice would be: Don't take anything across the border. You can buy a Pound of bud in Jamaica or Mexico for next to nothing, hell, you can just go for a cab ride and get stoned. Everybody has it in these places!!! Sweet huh????? However...... I think you've already read Pulverizer's comment "How funny it would be for your parents to witness you getting busted on the border for smuggling a small amount of weed/hash. First off, there is no lenience for a "small bag" at the border. They detect nano-grams on your person and they go buck-wild. You will be forever banished from the USA for the rest of your life and you will ruin your parents vacation. Win/win if you ask me.

A couple of great TV shows you should watch are:

on youtube search "Locked up Abroad"
on www.surfthechannel.com "The Border - UK version/Australia version and USA version."

There are several people in these countries that sell people dope so that they can get paid by the police. Mind you, the number that get caught are relatively few. Is that a gamble you are willing to take? Is a joint worth doing that to yourself or your family?

Finding pot from crew members is actually not that easy to do. They are very well screened and sometimes strip searched. When your on the cruise, watch the crew members get off at a different door, shoes, socks off, and they also don't usually leave around the same time the customers do. Don't want them seeing that. If you MUST (I don't recommend it)


If you want pot in Cuba, hit the cities, not the all inclusive places. They sometimes get strip searched just to make sure they aren't stealing something or not sharing their tips. I would take hash onto a cruise and stick it you know where, I wouldn't smoke it, I'd eat it. Most cruise lines also x-ray baggage now. watch the exits from the countries you are visiting. If there are dogs there, don't do anything while visiting!

Just drink booze on the trip. You can get it pretty much anywhere on the ship if you even look 15. Wait for the on deck dances and shows. the Jamaicans are always pouring rum and others keep getting up to dance with fresh drinks on the table. do the math on that one. If that doesn't work, find some idiot college students that want to see a teenager drunk, they'll feed it to you. In Jamaica, go into a shop without your parents and look at t-shirts, when they come up (and they always will and will do anything for $) tell them you want a mickie of rum too. (make sure it is a plastic bottle with a plastic cap to get through the metal detector and shove it down your waist band before getting back on the ship. I learned that one from my Sunday school teaching mother who has been on about 20 cruises, that trick goes for everybody that wants to sneak booze on the ship. You are not allowed to take it back to your room. You have to turn it in when boarding and you get it back when you leave) At least this way, you may get a tongue lashing for making a "youthful mistake" and you won't jeopardize yourself or your family with international laws. If getting high is more important to you than risking someone other than yourself, you may want to reconsider your habit.

DO NOT CROSS ANY BORDER WITH POT

there are a lot of cruise ships working out of the vancouver harbour...they search your luggage before you board, as well should your parents if you're thinking about taking cannabis and a bong through US customs...they'll confiscate your pot, tear up your tickets, give you a court summons, and kick you out of the usa *permanently*...if you're lucky, they won't strip search you and pry your butt cheeks apart and peer in your asshole with a mini-maglite

i don't know what the captain of the cruise ship would do if he caught you smoking pot on his ship in international waters...probably keel haul you and hang you by the heels from the yardarm on the poop deck, naked

well said you two.

Thanks for the tip on Cuba. It's on my 'next to do' list since I got the airmiles to make it happen

i would make plenty of pot brownies to last me the whole trip.

that is probably the best idea.... but maybe make cookies or something a little less obvious....

I recently went on a cruise myself. First, like everyone's said, don't even risk taking any across the border.

Once I was driving across, smoked my last J a couple hours before getting there, and when border patrol was interrogating me they stuck their head in the car, smelled pot (somehow, all I could smell were cigarettes - was trying to cover up...), and pulled me and my car away to get searched by dogs. It's that easy. Thankfully all that was in the car was a really old half-smoked joint that I'd forgotten about, that the dogs never found.

Best bet for getting high on a cruise is to find it at your island stops. Any port you stop at, talk to a few locals and it won't take you long to get a hook up. I'd only smoke on the most remote decks on the ship, though. I've no idea what they'd do if they caught you, but I'd prefer not to risk it - there is a clause that allows them to dump you at wherever your next stop is and leave you there.

Edibles my friend, edibles...

Yea cuba is awesome. lol this greasy fat cuban standin next to a lightpost in the market part of Veradero got our attention by saying "eh man... u lookin for any cigaaars or weeeed?" lol i was so tempted but didn't say anything. hell for all i know he woulda taken me to some back alley n mugged me or some shit.

Amazing scenery in those types of countries though.

I don't have personal experience taking weed on cruise ships, but my parents have done it a few time on the Blues Cruise.

Apparently its not THAT hard to get it on the ship. Just keep it on your person, maybe in your underwear or something. I would take the bare necessities - just weed and some papers. Buy a lighter on the ship. (I've taken weed through airport security many times in my bra and/or underwear and people never give me a second glass. Again, I don't know what kind of security they put you through for cruise ships). Anyways, according to my parents on the Blues Cruise there is a shit ton of weed. Everyone has it. Just don't be obvious about it - smoke on your own private deck or in a secluded, uncrowded area of the ship.

The thing about cruise ships is that once you are so many miles away from the shore you are in international waters and weed is no longer illegal so its not like you can get "busted".

Again, this is second-hand information from my parents who have gone on the Blues Cruise out of Florida and into the Carribean many times.