Conservatives hate big government, other than when it comes to militarism, immigration, sex-women’s rights, and pot. Canada is on the verge of making pot legal, but the U.S. government is going to continue being incredibly stupid about it.
According to Politico:
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency will continue to apply long-standing U.S. federal laws and regulations that treat marijuana as a banned substance — and participants in the cannabis industry as drug traffickers — who are inadmissible into the U.S. Although some U.S. states have eased marijuana laws, the U.S. continues to maintain a federal prohibition that applies at the border, said Todd Owen, executive assistant commissioner for the Office of Field Operations….
Although CBP officials won’t be asking everyone if they have or do smoke pot, according to Owen, but “if there is a smell coming from the car, they might ask,” said Owen. And if you’re asked about smoking devil grass, you better not fucking lie. And according to Owen, “If you lie about it, that’s fraud and misrepresentation, which carries a lifetime ban.”
In other words, you’re fucked if you tell the truth, and you’re fucked if you lie about it.
The draconian- anti-agency over one’s own body laws will not just impact Canadians, but the laws will also impact those who invest in the Canadian marijuana industry.
Politico notes:
….Investors in marijuana companies are considered inadmissible. “We don’t recognize that as a legal business,” Owen said. Already, marijuana investors from other countries, such as Israel, have been denied entry into the U.S., he noted. CBP did not specify any minimum level of investment that could trigger a ban.
“Facilitating the proliferation of the legal marijuana industry in U.S. states where it is deemed legal or Canada may affect an individual’s admissibility to the U.S.,” Owen said.
Tax payer money well spent!
If you get in on the Canadian pot game, you’re a drug trafficker. Invest in companies that create guns, and the arms industry. Go right on ahead buddy, no one is going to stop you. A perfect example of the destructive violence that plagues this culture.
A plant that makes you want to order Domino’s pizza is bad. For some. Tools that kill women and children, and it’s all good. Hell, government will go out of its way to make it easier for you.
The irony of this stupid policy, from a conservative perspective: The pot industry is capitalism, and the war on pot is socialism.
Conservatives, leave socialism to us on the left…
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