U.S. leads the way in marijuana legalization, but different rules for Canadians at the border. President Barack Obama has, by his own admission, snorted cocaine, or as he put it in his book Dreams From My Father, “a little blow.”
He has also smoked marijuana, and, unlike former president Bill Clinton, explicitly acknowledges that he inhaled.
But just because the U.S. president has publicly admitted these things, don’t for heaven’s sake think it’s OK to do so if you’re a Canadian.
Because Barack Obama is an American citizen, and U.S. customs agents treat Canadians entirely differently than their own citizens. There are effectively two sets of laws at the border.
If you are not an American, and a U.S. customs and Border Patrol Service agent learns you have ever admitted taking so much as a single puff of marijuana, that agent can bar you from travelling to the United States for life, potentially ruining holidays, and greatly reducing your value as an employee in vast sectors of the Canadian economy.
Neil Macdonald – CBC News – Sep 9, 2016.
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