Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said on CBC’s ” Power and Politics” that they have to address, with US counterparts, the “ridiculous situation” of Canadian citizens receiving lifetime bans from entering the US for admitting they previously smoked pot when asked by the US Customs and Border Protection service.
Minister Ralph Goodale was responding to questions about Matthew Harvey, who is banned from entering the US because he admitted to border guards that he smoked marijuana after the age of 18 and before he’d received his medical marijuana license.
Photo of Matthew Harvey and his daughter from the CBC / Glen Kugelstadt
I cannot believe what I’m reading. I wonder if US citizens who admitted such a thing on re-entry would also be refused. I guess I’d better just stay home.