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Conversely, any Canadian who admits to smoking pot (now legal in Canada) will be barred from entering the US for life.

by klipt 5y ago

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elevaet 5y ago
This happened to a friend of mine. However he was eventually able to reverse the situation through a cumbersome legal process.
DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
> any Canadian who admits to smoking pot (now legal in Canada) Also completely legal, for recreational use, in 6 of the 10 US states that border Canada, and legal for medicinal use in 9 of the 10 states, Idaho being the only hold-out. This is getting pretty silly now, no?
- mbg721 5y ago
  People seem to forget that at a federal level, marijuana is still a Schedule I drug and is illegal to possess; if the feds decided suddenly to remember that, all hell could break loose at any moment. The guys guarding the border don't get their paychecks from Madison or St. Paul or Olympia or Albany, they get them from Washington, DC.
  - derefr 5y ago
    That doesn't quite justify it. Even Schedule I drugs are still legal to possess with a proper prescription from a doctor. There's prescription methamphetamine (Desoxyn), for example. As such, would the US object if I took THC under prescription in an in-patient medical context in another country, and then attempted to enter? And if they wouldn't object, then why would they suddenly object if I didn't get prescribed the THC, but rather purchased it over the counter, under advisement of a doctor? (After all, this is how most legal, OTC medications work. Doctors in outpatient settings don't prescribe you e.g. aspirin; they just tell you to "take two aspirin and call me if it doesn't feel better." They assume you can get your own aspirin without their help.)
    - mbg721 5y ago
      As the kids say, "Dude, this is America." Why would merely having a prescription and a reasonable excuse help you with the border patrol? Maybe you'd get a sympathetic guy that day and maybe you wouldn't.
      - derefr 5y ago
        Because I'm pretty sure you can bring pretty much any prescribed drug in its labelled dispensed container — even the Desoxyn! — with you over the border into the US. So it'd be weird if THC was an exception to that; and doubly weird if just having ever been prescribed THC was worse for you than literally carrying a pill bottle full of meth in your bag.
        filoleg 5y ago
        >you can bring pretty much any prescribed drug in its labelled dispensed container — even the Desoxyn! — with you over the border into the US. >So it'd be weird if THC was an exception to that As others in the thread have already mentioned, Desoxyn is schedule 2, while Cannabis is federally schedule 1 (with lower schedule number being more restricted). So no, THC isn't an exception, it is a part of the same rule system. The one in which schedule 2 drugs have more legal privileges than schedule 1 drugs.
        inter_netuser 5y ago
        the active ingredient of desoxyn, methamphetamine is schedule 1. Plenty of substances are dual scheduled, desoxyn is just most prominent example.
        josephcsible 5y ago
        This doesn't appear to be true: https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/orangebook/c_cs_alpha.pdf https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/orangebook/c_cs... Are you sure you're not getting it mixed up with MDMA or something?
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  - anigbrowl 5y ago
    Nobody is forgetting it; they think it's stupid and wrong.

Conversely, any Canadian who admits to smoking pot (now legal in Canada) will be barred from entering the US for life.

by klipt 5y ago

Conversely, any Canadian who admits to smoking pot (now legal in Canada) will be barred from entering the US for life.

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elevaet 5y ago

This happened to a friend of mine. However he was eventually able to reverse the situation through a cumbersome legal process.

DaiPlusPlus 5y ago

> any Canadian who admits to smoking pot (now legal in Canada) Also completely legal, for recreational use, in 6 of the 10 US states that border Canada, and legal for medicinal use in 9 of the 10 states, Idaho being the only hold-out. This is getting pretty silly now, no?

mbg721 5y ago
People seem to forget that at a federal level, marijuana is still a Schedule I drug and is illegal to possess; if the feds decided suddenly to remember that, all hell could break loose at any moment. The guys guarding the border don't get their paychecks from Madison or St. Paul or Olympia or Albany, they get them from Washington, DC.
- derefr 5y ago
  That doesn't quite justify it. Even Schedule I drugs are still legal to possess with a proper prescription from a doctor. There's prescription methamphetamine (Desoxyn), for example. As such, would the US object if I took THC under prescription in an in-patient medical context in another country, and then attempted to enter? And if they wouldn't object, then why would they suddenly object if I didn't get prescribed the THC, but rather purchased it over the counter, under advisement of a doctor? (After all, this is how most legal, OTC medications work. Doctors in outpatient settings don't prescribe you e.g. aspirin; they just tell you to "take two aspirin and call me if it doesn't feel better." They assume you can get your own aspirin without their help.)
  - mbg721 5y ago
    As the kids say, "Dude, this is America." Why would merely having a prescription and a reasonable excuse help you with the border patrol? Maybe you'd get a sympathetic guy that day and maybe you wouldn't.
    - derefr 5y ago
      Because I'm pretty sure you can bring pretty much any prescribed drug in its labelled dispensed container — even the Desoxyn! — with you over the border into the US. So it'd be weird if THC was an exception to that; and doubly weird if just having ever been prescribed THC was worse for you than literally carrying a pill bottle full of meth in your bag.
      - filoleg 5y ago
        >you can bring pretty much any prescribed drug in its labelled dispensed container — even the Desoxyn! — with you over the border into the US. >So it'd be weird if THC was an exception to that As others in the thread have already mentioned, Desoxyn is schedule 2, while Cannabis is federally schedule 1 (with lower schedule number being more restricted). So no, THC isn't an exception, it is a part of the same rule system. The one in which schedule 2 drugs have more legal privileges than schedule 1 drugs.
        inter_netuser 5y ago
        the active ingredient of desoxyn, methamphetamine is schedule 1. Plenty of substances are dual scheduled, desoxyn is just most prominent example.
        josephcsible 5y ago
        This doesn't appear to be true: https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/orangebook/c_cs_alpha.pdf https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/schedules/orangebook/c_cs... Are you sure you're not getting it mixed up with MDMA or something?
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- anigbrowl 5y ago
  Nobody is forgetting it; they think it's stupid and wrong.