Woman banned from Carnival cruise ships for life over CBD gummies
Woman banned from Carnival cruise ships for life over CBD gummies
A Texas woman is now banned from stepping onboard any Carnival cruise ship for life all because she tried to bring CBD gummies on board to sleep.
Cbd isn’t globally legal even if it’s derived from hemp. When you cruise you have to respect the fact that you enter foreign waters and follow the rules. Period.
This is absurd! Guess I won’t be taking any cruises .
Attorney and sue!
Carnival sucks anyway, they did her a favor.
Rules are rules
They didn’t want to feed her.
I think its crazy the Carnival Cruises banned her for life. Are we sure she didn’t put up a fight there on the spot with these people? Usually people have money that go on these cruises. I can see the ship banning her from that particular cruise. But to get banned for life! Her and her family must have done something to turn these people off. Maybe a big fight, cursing etc. Lets face it. One spends $10 thou on a trip and to be told you cant go! Id curse. She certainly didnt say, oh thats fine, I’ll just go away with my family. I dont see this happening this way. I bet she hollered and put up a fuss! I would for $10 thousand a trip.
This is crazy! They could have easily explained the rules and asked her to throw them away. No one in the world knows all the rules.
My how the tables have turned
CBD are legal. This is ridiculous. I wouldn’t sail on that cruise line…
I will never board Carnival.
CHURCH GOING 😂OMG … WHAT DOES THAT MEAN 🧐😅 CHURCH PEOPLE KICK IT AND LET DOWN THERE HAIR TOO ! I’M A HOUSEKEEPER AND AIDE AND I DON’T HAVE A RECORD EITHER…. YOU GONE LEARN TODAY CARNIVAL NOT 🚫 PLAYIN WITH NOBODY!!!!!!! CHURCH GOING OR NOT 🚫
There’s more to this story …
the majority of Carnival Cruise Line vessels are registered in Panama, with a few of their vessels registered in the Bahamas and Malta. Therefore, the laws of that specific country are what are followed while on the open waters under maritime law.
it’s all about alcohol sales. when people are consuming something safer than alcohol that keeps them functional and feeling great it becomes a threat to one of the cruise businesses core money makers. CBD does nothing but provide a healthy alternative to synthetic addictive drugs. It’s all about control.
Put your money where your mouth is and spend it elsewhere. Boycot the cruise industry until they drag themselves into the 21st century. All drunks allowed and encouraged with the DRINK PACKAGES… but legal cbd users are banned for life. Nope.. I’m not putting my money with ignorant companies.
I will honestly never go on carnival again after hearing this. Been on about 7 cruises with them but not any more.
They have alcohol flowing out of every faucet but you’re not allowed to have legal gummies? Royal Caribbean it is for me❤
Meanwhile they’ll serve alcohol aboard the cruise 24/7! The hypocrisy is ridiculous! When are we going to get out of this 1930s and ’40s mentality about cannabis? Every state that has medical cannabis has lower opioid rates and no one has ever overdosed on THC nor has anyone ever killed anybody in an accident from being high on THC! THC doesn’t impair you like alcohol does! The worst you might do while driving high is drive a little under the speed limit
This bullying needs to stop! She obviously didnt think it was a problem. Smdh
Pretty harsh to ban her for life & I think taking & disposing of them should have been sufficient to let her take her trip. That being said, this is not a policy that Carnival just makes up for no reason. Everyone on that ship is going to be traveling thru international waters to other countries and ports. Carnival could face serious repercussions if they allowed passengers to carry items that are illegal to the countries being visited. If it’s a rule, it’s a rule for a reason and should be followed. Not every country on this planet is as forgiving or liberal as the United States. Just ask Brittany Griner.
So glad the criminal was caught , can you imagine if this hard core cbd drug got in the wrong hands . Hahahaha What a Clown Cruise line.
The cruise companies need to get educated and quickly. To ban this person for life is absolutely ridiculous. After reading this I will never give them my business. We just came home from a music cruise. Believe me, there was a lot of pot smoking going on. People weren’t hiding it at all.
Tylenol is stronger than Cbd 😂😂😂 CBD doesn’t do a damn thing lol! Only helps with mild back pain. But seriously Cbd doesn’t do anything at all anyone who thinks you can get high on it I’d love to make a hefty bet you won’t feel anything no matter how much you take. Ive done it many times and gave up because Tylenol and ibuprofen help way more than Cbd does. So for them to do this to her is so wrong man. Seriously what a waste of her time and money she didn’t do anything close to wrong.
Royal Caribbean, took my travel iron. I got it back, end of cruise. Carnival should have done same thing. I just would’ve counted my gummy’s because I bet Carnival would’ve been in it. 😂
Rediculous.
Boycott carnival!
lol this is the reaction of some kinda mafia.
Well, they do have rules. Good for them😅😅😅😅
She should put these gummies in a regular gummy bag instead of that… Besides she has insomnia.
For all you "holier than thou" complainers saying drunks are more obnoxious, you might want to remember that Carnival and the port of Miami are required to follow FEDERAL law, not local law, and therefore had three choices, 1) Ignore the gummies thereby breaking the law themselves and facing the possibility of losing their license to operate 2) Turn the woman over to federal authorities or 3) Ban her for life.
She got off easy.
Even the public is so screwed up in the brain that they have been conditioned, like carpenters, everything is a nail. CBD is non-halucinating and let idiots get it in their heads!
No more carnival cruise for me & my family, from now on it will be Celebrity Cruise Line. I agree the way alcohol flows on cruises, & how carnival cruise is notorious for drunken fights on board, why didn’t they act like humans & throw them away. Why didn’t they just say it’s not allowed & move on. To ban her for life & then send her such a nasty letter is ridiculous, this captain is probably the type of person who leaves a litter of Golden-doodles in the woods to die, he should be embarrassed for signing that idiotic letter!!!
Her gummy hadn’t kicked in! We got a whole bag of chocolate on board this summer on a Med cruise out of Italy. The trick is you have to mix it in with other legal candies and nuts!
How can this cruise line be this dumb?
Lemme get back to packing for my next cruise. Thank you for your sacrifice lady.
This is an excellent way for Carnival, the bottom feeder of cruises, to get much needed free advertising. Oh…. wait…
This is unjust and unfair punishment. Carnival is clearly using her as a “scapegoat” example to re-write their wrongs of their past. What was not mentioned in this article (which I have confirmed through someone I know who witnessed this at the Port) is that she was initially “flagged” for nail clippers in her carry-on bag. It was only when she was sent to “secondary” that the gummies were discovered. She reportedly and instantly agreed to have the gummies discarded without incident, but instead she was detained and kicked off the Cruise while her other family members were given the option to sail without her.
There are many others from Carnival’s past who have done much worse (even violent) onboard their sailings and gotten off less harshly and in some cases with no punishment. About six years ago onboard a P&O Cruise Ship which is also owned by Carnival, a young boy with autism bit an untrained youth counselor after being triggered as a defense mechanism. That boy and his adoptive grandparents were allowed to finish their sailing after being warned and scolded by the Ship’s Captain. It was five years later when the boy’s birth mother wanted to get married onboard a P&O Ship that the mother learned that her son was banned for life from all Carnival owned brands because of that incident.
Carnival has become way too draconian in enforcing their policies. Rules are rules but it’s clear that this woman is being used as a target. It is My hope that she will be vindicated and made whole with compensatory damages in tow as well.
Im done with Carnival after this…ppl tryna have a good time. They really gotta get dogs involved
Church going, nurse practitioner? No parking ticket? So what? she should’ve known to travel with those products.
They didn’t want to feed her.
I was a whole “smoking section” on my cruise ship when I went to the Bahamas this year for my birthday!🤷🏽♀️🔥💨🍃
OK. Let’s keep it real. This woman was an experienced Carnival cruiser. Carnival has had this rule and has publicized this rule in multiple ways on social media as well as on its webpage. You have to be living in a closet with no access to any news at all to not know this rule.
I sailed the same month from Miami as this woman sailed. I’m from Oklahoma. My 23-year-old great niece sailed with me. She has a medical marijuana card. I asked her multiple times before we left our homes to triple check she had nothing in her purse, backpack, or luggage that could remotely be related to CBD. When we got to the airport in Oklahoma City, I asked her to check again. When we left our hotel in Miami to board the ship, she checked again. Why? Because I’m an experienced Carnival cruiser, too. And I follow the rules. And I know because Carnival had just publicized the drug sniffing dogs at the Port of Miami that Carnival was serious about the CBD issue.
CBD products are illegal in most Caribbean islands. That’s one of the reasons there is this rule. Don’t take it out of America and don’t bring it back into America. Especially in the Port of Miami. I’ve had a ship delayed by the DEA in Miami. It’s not fun and it cost a lot of people a lot of money, passengers and the cruise line alike.
I absolutely side with Carnival about not letting the woman onboard. I understand she had trouble sleeping. She could’ve brought melatonin or Bonine, which makes you slightly drowsy with no drug hangover. There are a lot of over-the-counter products she could have brought instead of CBD gummies. And she’s a nurse, and she knows this. If not, then she’s not a good nurse. By the way, when I sailed out of Miami in August? Three of the six of us in my party were nurses. And they all checked to make certain my niece hadn’t accidentally packed anything with CBD.
When we travel, we must be responsible adults. This lady was not a responsible adult. This is what happens when we’re not responsible adults. It’s unfortunate Carnival chose to ban her from cruising on their ships. But, at best, this is the consequence of her irresponsibility. At worst, it’s the consequence of her hubris thinking the rules don’t apply to her. Personally, I’d be so embarrassed at being so irresponsible that I would just take my punishment like a grown-up instead of whining and hiring a lawyer. She clearly broke the rules. They’re trying to weasel their way out of it using semantics, and I’m sure they’re trying to get some money from Carnival in the process. But if she can’t be trusted to be responsible, she doesn’t need to be cruising. I don’t blame Carnival for not being willing to accept the liability of having her as a passenger.
They said CBD is a controlled substance, no its not and has not been its approved by United States law, and most state laws, its industiral derived Hemp. So carnival stating its illegal federal substance is full of it. Trump signed it into federal law making it legal
This is WRONG of them! They should not get away with this. SUE THEM
Oh, but you can get blackout drunk, puke off your balcony and fall overboard, but heaven forbid you take a gummy, get the munchies and fall asleep in a deck chair!
There’s got to be more to the story. I find it hard to believe they held her for hours and the police got involved over CDB.
so people are allowed to go to malls and steal thousands of dollars worth of stuff with no consequences and this lady gets banned for life for legal activities. Gotta love the backwards liberal bizarro world we all live in
You are not allowed to bring it. It says that on the website and agreement you sign. It’s legal here but other countries and ports it is not, and if something happens there carnival can’t do anything. The lifetime ban is extreme BUT I feel it might be because how she reacted she got the ban.
This is an excellent opportunity for a competing cruise line to give her a lifetime pass. 🍻
OMG CBD is literally everywhere