Pot users not allowed into USA from Canada
Tuesday the L.A. Times had a "Boo Hoo Poor Me" article regarding a Canadian who answered yes when asked by US customs if he had ever smoked pot, he was denied entrance. Canada is about to legalize po...
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Walaby wrote:
Lets clear up one thing, I have NEVER gotten a DUI, so I don't have a DUI.
To be clear on another thing, I am totally fine with if someone gets caught DUI in Canada, they suffer the consequences that the Canadian govt and law enforcement deems appropriate. REGARDLESS of citizenship.
And I am ALSO FINE if Canada decides to not admit someone from another country, based on information they have discovered about that individual. It's that countries right to decide who qualifies for admittance and who does not.
I am NOT okay with a country establishing a criminal record for a citizen of another country, based on a crime that individual committed in the country of his citizenship, JUST BECAUSE the country decides they don't like how the country where the crime was committed punished the offender.
MDKMDK says that a US citizen with a DUI, by default HAS A CRIMINAL RECORD in Canada. That is my problem with it.
Mike
Well the US seems to be applying this to Canadians who merely admitted to breaking the law at the time without ever being charged or convicted. Basically they are telling someone who tried pot 40 years ago to lie. Doesn't seem like a productive exercise to me.
