Can Y'all Vape At Disneyland? Here's The Risk

By WeedMaps News' Lindsey Bartlett, provided exclusively to Benzinga Cannabis.

Disneyland is oft referred to equally the "Happiest Place on Earth," but for adults aged 21-and-upward, couldn't it exist happier?

Anecdotes of people getting busted for their vape pens at Disneyland and Disney World reached a breaking point when a grandmother was arrested for CBD oil. And then, the question remains: can you vape at Disneyland?

With cannabis legal for adults in California and medically in Florida, confusion has cropped upwards when it comes to legal and safe cannabis consumption. This includes in the bigger, iconic tourist spots, fifty-fifty the family-friendly places of Disneyland and Walt Disney World.

Disney's Stated Rules

Co-ordinate to Disney's website: No.

Disney is a privately owned entity then it can ban any items information technology chooses. Disneyland's belongings rules state that "Marijuana (including marijuana enriched products) or whatever illegal substance" are prohibited. This blanket rule includes whatever "cannabis-enriched products," thus including vapes, edibles, as well equally marijuana for medical purposes. The policy makes no mention of cannabidiol (CBD), but CBD products could fall under its definition of "cannabis-enriched." The website specifies the following:

Smoking marijuana or other illegal substances is not permitted at any time. For the comfort of all Guests, the theme parks, the esplanade between the parks and the Downtown Disney District are smoke gratis. The smoking of tobacco, east-cigarettes or other products that produce a vapor or smoke is allowed only in designated outdoor smoking areas.

Additionally, guests may not smoke in any Disney Resort hotel rooms, including on patios or balconies attached to those rooms. It continues to warn that a "$250-$500 room-recovery fee" volition be charged for smoking in guest rooms, balconies, or patios in Disney Resort hotels.

According to released Anaheim (California) Police Section records, in that location have been nine arrests for marijuana on Disneyland property since California legalized in Jan 1, 2018. Disney has not responded to requests for comment at the time of this writing.

Could Disneyland's Rules Change?

Disney does not appear to be shifting its stance on cannabis use within its theme parks anytime before long.

Disney Globe officials in 2017 told WESH-Television, NBC'southward Orlando affiliate: "We are revising our rules to clarify that marijuana is non permitted on our property ... Although some states have legalized marijuana for medicinal or recreational utilise, marijuana remain(s) illegal nether federal constabulary."

In April 2019, Hester Burkhalter, a 69-year-one-time keen grandmother who suffers from arthritis, was arrested at Disney Earth'due south Magic Kingdom on charges of possessing CBD oil. The charges were dropped in May 2019, and Burkhalter has since announced plans to file a lawsuit against Disney and the Orangish County Sheriff's Office, her lawyer said, because of "horrific treatment that they placed upon this church building-going, police-abiding grandmother."

What Are the Repercussions?

A strict smoking, vaping, and e-cigarette ban went into effect on May one, 2019, Theme Park Insider reported. This means there are no more designated smoking areas inside any Disney parks. It states that visitors who fume or vape will be asked to leave the parks, or "security zones," in order to fume cigarettes or vape e-cigarettes.

If a security guard discovers a guest smoking or vaping cannabis in a Disney park, there is a skillful take chances they volition ask you to put it away or else leave the Magic Kingdom. In one online forum, a witness said 3 people smoking a joint simply were kicked out with their iii-day park pass revoked.

If security guards decide to take a parkgoer into a holding cell, called "Disney Jail" by quondam employees, it would appear similar to a holding jail cell at any security office. Ane quondam Disneyland employee described it as a 10-foot-by-x-human foot white room with benches and a mirrored wall. Guests who have committed a crime volition wait while Disney calls Anaheim police, which have two stations located on the Disneyland holding.

From there, the guests are in the custody of Anaheim police or in Florida, the Orange County Sheriff's Function. So if a guest has inside the legal limit of cannabis for California, they will not exist charged. But Florida'southward medical marijuana laws are much more than strict and only allow for patients to have low-THC/high CBD products with a medical cannabis card.

How is Disney Policing Vaping?

One former cast member on Yahoo Answers said that there are many undercover security officers in the park. The former cast member, under the Yahoo proper noun Disneyland Guru, said that these undercover cops, who look mostly for shoplifters only will be scattered around the park. Cheatsheet describes these guards equally "about invisible," dressing up as tourists.

One old guard told Popsugar, when people are apprehended by Disney security, they aim to "go on it equally un-embarrassing as possible but too to brand it depression key. We don't want to interrupt your experience by dealing with another guest."

Disney "imagineered" a unique video surveillance system, unveiled in 2017, that relies on "deep spatial pyramid" for face re-identification around the park. This means the video surveillance will recognize guests, regardless of the modify in "illumination, a person'south pose, camera viewing angle, and background ataxia," as explained in Disney'southward published enquiry.

Featured prototype: Disney's U.S. theme parks are in California and Florida, which permit adult-use and medical marijuana, respectively. However, Disneyland and Walt Disney World strictly prohibit cannabis consumption. (Photograph courtesy of Carol M. Highsmith on Wikimedia Commons )

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