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Cash: How much USD can I legally carry on my person in the United States at any given time?

You “can” legally carry every dollar you own. The illegalities come up when you mess with reporting requirements.FIRST, if you enter the U.S. or depart from the U.S. with more than $10,000 in cash (or its equivalent - in Euros or gold bars or some other readily spendable currency) you must report the fact of what you are importing or exporting to Customs and Border Protection (on a convenient form an officer will give you; at land crossings you will undoubtedly see a sign warning you of the reporting requirements). Willfully failing to do so is a felony.As an aside to this, many other countries have similar reporting requirements, so when you land or leave, you may have to declare your cash when you arrive or depart that country. I’m told jail in some of those countries is a bitch.SECOND: if you deposit or withdraw more that $10,000 in cash (or its equivalent) from any financial institution (bank, credit union, brokerage house, casino, etc.), the institution is required to report the transaction to the Treasury. If you try to “structure” your transactions so the bank won’t know about your transaction and thus won’t report it, that, too, is a felony. Example: you want to deposit $18,000 in cash so you deposit $9,000 at branch A and $9,000 at branch B an hour or a day later. If willfully done to evade the reporting requirements, you are in felony territory.And my aside comment above applies here, too (as to deposits or withdrawals).Conversely, if you take a steamer trunk of cash to France and report the amount of cash in the trunk, or you take the same steamer trunk to the bank and deposit it all at one branch, you may raise a hell of a lot of eyebrows (including some in law enforcement), but you will not have violated any laws.THIRD, merchants have the same reporting requirements, so if you go pay for that Jag with your steamer trunk, the car dealer is obligated to report that transaction. The same rules relating to structuring apply to these transactions, too. Indeed, I have seen at least one instance where a law firm allowed a client to stucture the payment of legal fees. Also a no no.

How long does it typically take for UPS to deliver a package?

Within the same US state and most neighboring states even “ground” level service will effectively be overnight… I.e. get it picked up or dropped off before the daily pick and the next day it will be delivered…From one side of the US to the other, say NYC to LA or from MIA to Alaska, “ground” level service will take 5 days…Anything in between will take 2–4 days… Depending on the distance…If you really need overnight, and especially overnight with morning delivery be prepared for sticker shock… The “express” level of service will cost you roughly 5–6 times as much if not more…Last but not least, there’s really not much difference between UPS and FedEx where these matters are concerned…International service, especially where air freight of the package is required (applies also to shipping to/from Puerto Rico, Guam and Hawaii) is practically always an “express” level service… The only exceptions I’m aware of are Mexico and Canada…

How long will a package take coming from China to the East Coast of the USA?

How long will a package take coming from China?I order consumer products from China all the time, I am a collector and many of the items I collect originate in China. Even many items that originally came from Japan are now produced in China.The Chinese people are hard working quality minded individuals that have developed over the centuries a work ethic that is capable of exceeding even the most talented competitors.I am usually told to allow 5 to 8 weeks for shipments to be delivered to my door, however the average total time or time from ordering to delivery has historically been about half that stated, and much of the delay is caused in the customs department of the USA.So to give you an idea, say I received today via UPS 5 packages, of those 3 were ordered through company’s in Japan one item was ordered on the 25th of September this year and shipped on the 29th of September, I just received it today about 10:00AM mountain standard time. If you’re on the east coast then you probably will get your shipment quicker.Another item was ordered from a Chinese company on September 29th and shipped on September 29th and the both arrived here at the same time, today at 10:00 AM mountain standard time.So actually it’s been taking about two weeks, and some change. Meaning that on average maybe 15 or 16 days to get to my front door from the time I place the order.It’s a far cry from the days that any mail took six to eight months to arrive in the USA from China.

Can search dogs detect cannabis laced edibles?

The answer to your question will depend on how the edibles are made. Dogs not only have an incredible sense of smell, they are also amazing discriminators. When you smell beef stew, the odor you detect is a combination of ingredients blended together. You recognize that combination as beef stew. If your dog is one of the better breeds for detection, such as a Shepard, your dog smells beef, carrots, celery, etc. each individually, and together. Because of that it is difficult to hide the smell of cannabis in other smells.What detection dogs actually smell are terpenes, those compounds that give cannabis it’s unique and often varied fragrance. While you find terpenes in all cannabis, it is not the component that gets you “high”. That is THC, and these days THC can be extracted from cannabis without the terpenes.For use in edibles this is normally the case. Most edibles these days use a standardized extract of THC that comes from supercritical CO2 extraction. This extract typically does not typically include terpenes, as they have to be removed in a separate, sub-critical process that edibles makers don’t use. It yields a standardized THC extract that makes dosing in edibles much easier and more accurate. These edibles won’t alert dogs as they are not actually trained to smell THC (virtually odorless), they are trained to recognize the terpenes found in cannabis.However, if you have edibles that you made by soaking skunk weed in melted butter and using the butter to make your edibles… a police K-9 can nail you.Bottom line - If your edibles are made by a large edibles maker, it is very unlikely there is anything for a K-9 to smell inside. However, if your edibles are home made then I would not bet on getting past a police K-9. Different dogs, of course, have different abilities and the level of training is important as better trained dogs are better at discriminating odors.I spent the better part of a year a about 10 years ago becoming a registered detection dog handler for both explosives and drugs. I have seen dogs that I swear could smell it if you were thinking about smoking a joint, absolutely uncanny. But all dogs are limited to detecting what they are trained to smell and modern commercial edibles typically don’t contain what they are trained to smell.Hope that helps…