Dogs can smell edibles at the airport.
If the TSA suspects edibles in your luggage then the dogs can sniff it out to see if it is edibles or not.
Dogs can easily detect the edibles as cannabis as they have very good smelling power.
If TSA finds your edibles during screening then the TSA will contact law enforcement.
Then you'll have to go into a room with the law enforcement officers and they will investigate you and possibly arrest you or fine you depending on what they find and do.
In most cases you'll be arrested and go to jail over the edibles and miss your flight as flying with edibles is illegal according to TSA.
TSA can see your edibles in your checked luggage.
However sometimes edibles may pass through the checked luggage screening undetected as edibles can look like other snacks.
If the TSA spots the edibles in your checked luggage then they will send it over to law enforcement to investigate further.
Because edibles look just like regular snacks, they're the easiest cannabis products to get through TSA and airport security.
Just make sure your edibles look like plain-old-unmedicated food.
Here's the TSA's policy on food: “Solid food items (not liquids or gels) can be transported in either your carry-on or checked bags.
Packing edibles in your checked bag has the same result as walking through security with them.
If they are discovered during a search of your bag by TSA, they will hand them over to local law enforcement who will take it from there.
Airport scanners can detect food items, though they cannot detect whether those food items are edibles.
Dogs can identify edibles but on the condition that they are trained to do so.
Dogs have super sensitive noses.
Hence they can smell and detect things we can't.
However just be aware that it is illegal to fly with edibles even if you're in a state where cannabis is legal and the edibles were manufactured and sold.
According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), taking cannabis products on an airplane is illegal.