Airport checks

[Marco]

. Say for example, if someone applies for a job, can this info be found out?

No. Being caught with a small amount of weed at Schiphol would not result in an entry on the national criminal database in your own country. Even if a job required enhanced disclosure you wouldn't be effected. You would almost certainly get grief on future trips to NL though. The sort of grief you can do without.

Even though I've done it myself once or twice when I was younger (deliberately and by accident) I wouldn't advise it in terms of risk to reward ratio, posting is much less of a risk/worry.

However if you really must, as suggested above just "forget" a few g's in the pocket of some clothes in your carry on baggage. They're much too busy these days looking for people with vicious terrorist tools (makeup, bottles of water, nail scissors) on the scanners to pick up a tiny bit of pot. Make sure that sort of thing isn't in your bag too!

Don't have it on your person in case you go through a body scanner, and your hold bags are much more likely to go past a dog at both ends. But really don't do it, more than anything it'll just make you nervous and spoil the end of your trip.

Don't you think ALL the records of border police in the West are connected, or at least the US Government has access to it? It does not matter if the Dutch give the data, the US can just take it.

[Not_the_monk]

Don't you think ALL the records of border police in the West are connected, or at least the US Government has access to it? It does not matter if the Dutch give the data, the US can just take it.

They're not fully connected.

There is a new system for sharing conviction data between EU countries called ECRIS that was implemented only a few months ago. However that works on a request basis, the data is stored only in national databases then exchanged if a request is put in.

Currently in the UK, CRB checks (the criminal record checks you go through if you get a job as a teacher or health care worker or whatever) solely request information from the national database, not ECRIS. That may change but is correct as of very recently. I would be surprised if it was different in other EU states.

The issue as far a a job is concerned is not what info is shared between customs agencies, but what ends up on the national criminal convictions recording systems. These are not the same things.

And as for the US, not only have you been watching too many films, they've got nothing to do with the question that was asked.

[TwoCanucks]

There are at least seven different levels/types of criminal backround checks that can be shared by euro-us-canada police etc... I went through them twice in last 4 years for my job. If you think you wont get caught or the info wont be shared then go ahead and roll the dice. Imho, no amount of herb is worth the possible repercussions.

[Uncle Ron]

I love these types of threads, observing stoners in their natural habitat...
Please, continue...
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[Slim d]

Spot on Ron !

[Bilbo Baggins]

Friend always buys a good sized bag of liquorice allsorts before a flight---and always blags a small amount back home by shaping a lump of hash into a liquice like shape and just bunging it in with all the other sweets in the bag. quite clever really.