Like the rest of news industry, this week we’re going to talk about immigration. Oh no, not the controversy of separating families on our southern border, but a new threat from—you guessed it—those bullies to the north.
The Canadian Parliament fully legalized cannabis on June 19—the second country to do so after Uruguay in 2013.
This is great news for advocates as Canada is the first G7 nation to take such a progressive stance on allowing cannabis in society.
However, Canada may have acted a little too quickly and perhaps should have paid more attention to the zero-tolerance policy now in play at U.S. borders.
America is a country of laws, and it is a matter of law, codified in the Immigration and Nationality Act, that “any alien … who is determined … to be a drug abuser or addict, is inadmissible.”
That’s right. Any Canadian deemed an abuser of cannabis by United States Border Patrol officials cannot legally enter the country.
Once Oct. 17 rolls around, the official date cannabis becomes legal, millions of Canadians will be able to legally use marijuana. Any of them who attempt to enter the U.S. may be detained for questioning and earn themselves a lifetime ban from the country.
Now that border agents have reasonable suspicion that every Canadian crossing the border may have abused cannabis at some point, whether an alien has used the drug at some point should be a mandatory question at every crossing.
Of course, we’d expect no less from our current administration that strict enforcement of the rule of law that maintains our thriving civilization.
No longer shall we allow Canadian abusers such as actor Seth Rogen to continue his tirade of debauchery in American cinema. Should you ever want to see a Sarah McLachlan concert again, you’ll have to catch her on your vacation to Toronto. (Though she said it’s not for her, McLachlan admitted to Billboard that she’d tried it.)
And should President Donald Trump want to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, well he’ll have make the trek to the great green north to do so.
Roughly 300,000 Canadians cross the border every day, according to Canada’s CBC News. About 30 percent of Canadians said they’d smoke cannabis if it were legal.
That means we have potentially 90,000 illegal Canadians crossing the border every day. This afront to our nation’s laws makes the monthly 40,000 people apprehended near the southwest border look like child’s play.
Luckily, our administration has proven its hardline stance against illegal border crossings.
The policy may also provide a valuable tool as America fights for freedom from Canada’s oppressive trade regulation. Perhaps Canada will no longer take advantage of America’s generosity when its citizens face prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.
It’s time for America to stand up to the bullies to the north and stop criminals in their tracks at our strong borders defended by the brave men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol.
This article appears in Jun 28 – Jul 4, 2018.
Strange views, I was stopped on the I-19 coming back from lunch and shopping in Tubac. As I pulled up the dog immediately sat down. The agent asked if anybody consumed marijuana ? I responded I did, I had a license and about a gram and pipe in the console. Asked to leave car with wife searched car came back after maybe 20 minutes said they took my container and pipe and was free to go. It seems you cant go through a federal check point caring marijuana as it is not a state highway but a federal/US highway. And of course against federal law.
By chance I was in Canada last week , Calgary, Bannf, Jasper, Vancouver, just last week Glacier Park trip. So of course I went to Weedmaps just to check out supply scene Calgary had 1 dispensary, several delivery. Then in Vancouver didn’t see much there but prior obligations didn’t look close. But on the Canadian border I saw no dogs walking the line.
It would be a good time to talk about the AZ court of appeals ruling essentially making all extracts illegal and NOT COVER UNDER THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA ACT.
https://azmarijuana.com/arizona-medical-marijuana-news/arizona-court-rules-medical-marijuana-extracts-illegal/
This includes all edibles, wax, shatter, hash, This is what happens when the focus is on business achievements, promises of great tax dollars being spent on the people. There is a deep state sprouting in the marijuana industry. California now is requiring all product sold to be tested so it is bargain prices as supply is going to shrink price is gong to rise and soon will be up there with dispensed methadone.
There is only one clear cut issue all of the trade and money triggers tied to schedule one. This needs to stop !
regards to concentrates:
1-This is how the legal minds came together to keep cannabis concentrates off campus
2- The AZ supreme court has ruled a member of the AZ BAR
CANNOT COUNSEL A CLIENT ON THE LEGAL WAYS TO OBTAIN MARIJUANA. Doing so would mean the attorney was counseling on how to break federal law. This is what happens when judges are appointed rather than elected. My solution reject every judge and constable on the ballot till equal treatment under the law.