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Yes, but did not they teach you to think before talking? They are free to not let you in, but you are free to ignore any irrelevant or intimate questions.
Nope. Ignoring or refusing to answer the question is grounds for denying admission or being permanently denied admission.
How Canada interfaces with the rest of the world promises to be a bit screwy. For just one example, consider airline staff. Some Canadian airlines have already banned employees from using pot. Obviously, the general public doesn't want to fly with pilots that are high in more than one way. These airlines also have to operate in countries, like the U.S., where their employees could be detained or expelled for even adm…
‘Obviously, the general public doesn't want to fly with pilots that are high in more than one way.’ I laughed way too hard at this for some reason.
How Canada interfaces with the rest of the world promises to be a bit screwy. For just one example, consider airline staff. Some Canadian airlines have already banned employees from using pot. Obviously, the general public doesn't want to fly with pilots that are high in more than one way. These airlines also have to operate in countries, like the U.S., where their employees could be detained or expelled for even adm…
> The initial tax rates for pot will be much lower, but should increase steadily year-over-year. Alcohol taxes continue to rise every year. The problem is they've got to play this game very carefully right now as the black market is still well established and providing to many people. They need to both drop prices (which should happen once more supply spins up) and start raiding illegal dispensaries and mail order sh…
Wow, some really interesting edge cases in there that require serious thought. US border guards might deny you entry if you admit to previous cannabis use - for them "A confession is as good as a conviction". So you can do something that is perfectly legal in Canada, then a month later be denied entry to the US for doing it. If you work at a 100% legal Government-run Cannabis store and want to go to the US for a holi…
> US border guards might deny you entry if you admit to previous cannabis use - for them "A confession is as good as a conviction" Why? Is it not just selling and possession but also the very act of smoking illegal in the USA? Are the USA citizens forced to follow the homeland laws wherever they travel even if the laws at where they are are different? It sounds like if they had to still drive the right sides of the r…
Don't forget: The current marijuana laws around the world can all be basically pinpointed to a single person: Harry motherfucking Anslinger[0], who was in the position of power within the US for unprecedented 32 years. He got in power 16 years before Trump was born, and ended up being in power until Trump turned 16. That guy loved to use anecdotes instead of facts, and presented marijuana as a drug that makes you kil…
There are bad boomer sports analogies with "the hot hand" and "the playmaker" and honestly I don't think Anslinger cared much about weed at all, as seen by his statements before he gained power; all he cared about was building a 10K person department, which led to the DEA we have today. Big corporate PR oriented mission statements mean nothing to people today, makes you wonder if they'll be vilified for ruining lives decades from now in some weird unanticipated quirk.
Anslinger wasn't evil so much as he was tragic. What a waste, both his organizational skills and all the lives ruined as a side effect for decades after.
Most discussion about the civilization wide effects of too many people for too few jobs focus on what millions of manual laborers or white collars being non-gainfully employed will do.. but another problem is imagine a world with 1000x as many Anslingers all able to build an empire, yet there are no useful productive empires to build, leading to 1000x the insanity of current drug laws in other fields. Imagine IP allocation, DNS resolution, or software licensing turned into a DEA-like dystopia, simply because there's no real jobs for empire builder-type people.
Canada is leading in personal freedoms and new markets with this move, ending cannabis prohibition that is long overdue and a step in ending the drug wars. The policy change regarding viewing drugs not as criminal but decriminalized and a health issue where needed, is the safer thing to do in a regulated market that will improve safety for recreational use and harm reduction. The War on Drugs started as an attack on…
"Canada is leading in personal freedoms", perhaps in weed laws, not in free speech etc.
Government stores OMG.
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> US border guards might deny you entry if you admit to previous cannabis use - for them "A confession is as good as a conviction" Why? Is it not just selling and possession but also the very act of smoking illegal in the USA? Are the USA citizens forced to follow the homeland laws wherever they travel even if the laws at where they are are different? It sounds like if they had to still drive the right sides of the r…
No, it's more similar to being denied entry to the US because you have previously driven on the left side of the road in the UK.
Obviously perfectly legal in Germany, but seriously illegal in the USA, so the border guards will deny you entry for breaking a US law while you where in a country where it's not illegal! insanity!
Canada is leading in personal freedoms and new markets with this move, ending cannabis prohibition that is long overdue and a step in ending the drug wars. The policy change regarding viewing drugs not as criminal but decriminalized and a health issue where needed, is the safer thing to do in a regulated market that will improve safety for recreational use and harm reduction. The War on Drugs started as an attack on…
"Canada is leading in personal freedoms", perhaps in weed laws, not in free speech etc.
What's your source on this? Free speech is enshrined as a "fundamental freedom" in the Charter. There are reasonable limits as well, to ensure that things like hate speech are deemed illegal.