The bright blue cannabis amnesty boxes were installed at the end of every TSA checkpoint at O’Hare and Midway airports after weed was legalized on Jan. 1.

So-called “amnesty boxes” have been installed at the airport and soon will be located at smaller airports in North Las Vegas and Henderson — 20 dope boxes in all.

The amnesty boxes are owned by Chicago's Department of Aviation and serviced by the Chicago Police Department, Maggie Huynh, spokesperson for CPD told USA TODAY in an emailed statement.

Thus, the amnesty boxes give travelers an easy way to avoid any trouble. Although the boxes haven’t seen much action, one at Midway was the scene of a cannabis caper just 22 days after the drug ...

The cannabis amnesty boxes, as they’re called, are stationed just past each Transportation Security Administration checkpoint, said Maggie Huynh, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Police Department.

Amnesty boxes are places where students can anonymously place items not allowed on campus, such as vapes, drugs, and alcohol, with no risk of punishment.

If the myriad contents of the cannabis amnesty boxes at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport are any indication, many people are wildly overestimating how much they can consume during a vacation ...

Two of Chicago’s airports, O’Hare International Airport and Midway Airport, have installed “Cannabis Amnesty Boxes” for passengers to dispose of their recreational marijuana before ...

The amnesty boxes themselves were installed to coincide with the Jan. 1 legalization of recreational marijuana in Illinois. Upon their debut at Midway and O'Hare, ...

Beaufort County Sheriff Scott Hammonds says the idea was for an amnesty box. He said the box would have been placed ahead of a metal detector, as a last option to get rid of prohibited items.

We wanted to speak to Sheriff Hammonds about the amnesty boxes but he could not talk to us on camera, and instead, answered some questions through text.

Amnesty boxes are places where students can anonymously place items not allowed on campus, such as vapes, drugs, and alcohol, with no risk of punishment.