David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/10/methinks-everybody-knows-lawyers-are.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/cannabis-canada-border-agents-lying-saskatchewan-1.4884680
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Surprise Surprise Surprise The LIEbrano Propaganda Machine known as the CBC finally closed its comment section the instant I clicked submit Methinks that is Too Too Funny N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/10/methinks-everybody-knows-lawyers-are.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/cannabis-canada-border-agents-lying-saskatchewan-1.4884680
Thinking about lying to U.S. border agents about your pot use? 'Do not do that. Trust me,' says lawyer
Rather than lying or admitting pot use, experts suggest a third option: delay
Comments
Commenting is now closed for this story.Surprise Surprise Surprise They close the comment section the instant I clicked submit
I'm Back after a couple of hours
Methinks the Feds know why that I am not surprised to see that this comment section is still open and gathering info N'esy Pas?David Amos
David Amos
Methinks many folks must be
wondering why this comment section is still open way past the
traditional 24 hour time frame N'esy Pas?
Rick Bailey
Who's this lawyer kidding?
If you smoked a joint 30 yers ago in high school absolutely lie about it and say no. Trust me, says Rick Bailey.
If you smoked a joint 30 yers ago in high school absolutely lie about it and say no. Trust me, says Rick Bailey.
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David Amos
David Amos
@Rick Bailey Methinks
everybody knows lawyers are professional liars for them to advise anyone
not to do what they do is a monumental joke to anyone with two clues between their ears N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@David Amos BTW Does anyone
remember the Yankee lawyer by the name of Clinton when asked if he ever
smoked dope he said yes but he did not inhale How is that possible? The
there the dude named Obama but I will let CBC tell the tale about
lawyers and their BS
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/marijuana-legalization-macdonald-1.3895377
"It was a variation on Bill Clinton's not inhaling. Ridiculous, almost cowardly. Or Barack Obama, who admitted cocaine use in a memoir, then oversaw national crackdowns on pot."
BTW I don't smoke No Joke So I don't care if it is legal or not
Ken Breadner
@Dan Reid You'd find a way to
blame Trudeau for your own tooth decay. The problem is quite simply
that the United States is Bizzarro World, where a substance can be legal
in a majority of states and yet somehow federally illegal (for no good
reason).
David Amos
@Ken Breadner I blame lawyers
Chuck Johns
@Rick Bailey
If they ask, just start giggling and ask if they have Doritos.
If they ask, just start giggling and ask if they have Doritos.
David Amos
@Chuck Johns Welcome to the Circus and pass the popcorn will ya?
David Amos
@Ken Breadner "The problem is quite simply that the United States is Bizzarro World"
If you could have read my first comment within this thread I have no doubt you would have agreed with me.
If you could have read my first comment within this thread I have no doubt you would have agreed with me.
Randy Ellis
I'm confused. If I smoke pot
every weekend but have never been arrested for it (I don't even know
anybody who ever has) and I tell the border guard I've not smoked
marijuana how on Earth are they going to know otherwise? This article
just goes against common sense.
Marc Belanger
@Randy Ellis Right? Why would I confess to a crime that I was never convicted of.
David Amos
@Randy Ellis "This article just goes against common sense."
Methinks many lawyers would disagree for obvious reasons N'esy Pas?
Methinks many lawyers would disagree for obvious reasons N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Marc Belanger Why would I confess to a crime that I was never convicted of.
Exactly
Exactly
Steve Cowell
"Delay" sounds like the best option: delay your trip to the USA indefinitely.
David Amos
@Steve Cowell "Delay" sounds like the best option"
Methinks its rather interesting that there is a "Delay" in closing this comment section Perhaps the "Powers That Be in Canada" are assisting Yankees in fishing within our corporate media to find potheads whining about their cross border practices if that is so then many Canadian politicians are in deep doo doo N'esy Pas?
For instance I believe that this Canadian lawyer teaches politics at Harvard N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/marijuana-legalization-macdonald-1.3895377
"During the 1993 campaign, Prime Minister Kim Campbell admitted she'd smoked marijuana before. (Tom Hanson/Canadian Press)"
http://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/kim-campbell
Methinks its rather interesting that there is a "Delay" in closing this comment section Perhaps the "Powers That Be in Canada" are assisting Yankees in fishing within our corporate media to find potheads whining about their cross border practices if that is so then many Canadian politicians are in deep doo doo N'esy Pas?
For instance I believe that this Canadian lawyer teaches politics at Harvard N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/marijuana-legalization-macdonald-1.3895377
"During the 1993 campaign, Prime Minister Kim Campbell admitted she'd smoked marijuana before. (Tom Hanson/Canadian Press)"
http://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/kim-campbell
Thomas Canity
You have to be kidding me.
You post the name of Al Larocque from Fruitvale, B.C and say he is going
to cross the border next month an lie...... we live in a world of
Inst-a-face-o-triw-ogram, you don't think someone will pass that info on
to US Border officers? Wow.
David Amos
@Thomas Canity Wow.
Methinks amazing things never cease N'esy Pas?
Methinks amazing things never cease N'esy Pas?
Mark Seward
Just don't go there at all. Problem solved. Whatever reason you feel the need to go there, you can do here.
James Smith
@Mark Seward Lovely, so those
of us that are not drug users should stay in nothing to do canada
because we are now a pothead nation? I dont care, smoke until you drop,
but this move by our drug pushing gov has made it my problem now.
Alex Forbes
@Mark Seward Glad you would at least do that over lying.
David Amos
@Mark Seward "Whatever reason you feel the need to go there, you can do here."
Methinks the Feds in Canada and the USA know why I strongly disagree. How else can I visit my Yankee children N'esy Pas?
Methinks the Feds in Canada and the USA know why I strongly disagree. How else can I visit my Yankee children N'esy Pas?
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David Amos
David Amos
@Alex Forbes Have you ever
met an FBI Special Agent or an IRS Special Agent who didn't lie?
Methinks "The Donald" and everybody else knows why I would like to meet
that person ASAP N'esy Pas?
Jon Holmes
Lord this is stupid advice.
Unless you've a prior conviction, on record, for Possession there's no good reason to tell the truth.
"I've never smoked Weed", and if they want to refuse you so be it.
Unless you've a prior conviction, on record, for Possession there's no good reason to tell the truth.
"I've never smoked Weed", and if they want to refuse you so be it.
David Amos
@Jon Holmes "Lord this is stupid advice."
I concur
I concur
Jasper Wilson
Big surprise. The lawyer's advice is to consult a lawyer.
Scott Leggatt
@Jasper Wilson
Like asking a barber if you need a haircut.
Like asking a barber if you need a haircut.
Van Collins
@Jasper Wilson
"Delay".... and get a lawyer.
I had to laugh. Classic lawyer response. I wonder what he charged for his input here.
"Delay".... and get a lawyer.
I had to laugh. Classic lawyer response. I wonder what he charged for his input here.
David Amos
@Jasper Wilson "Big surprise. The lawyer's advice is to consult a lawyer."
Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?
In the words of the infinitely wise fictional Yankee by the name of Gomer Pyle
"Surprise Surprise Surprise"
Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?
In the words of the infinitely wise fictional Yankee by the name of Gomer Pyle
"Surprise Surprise Surprise"
David Amos
@Van Collins "I had to laugh. Classic lawyer response. I wonder what he charged for his input here."
Me Too However methinks the lawyer did not charge for self promotion in the national media that might be illegal N'esy Pas?
Me Too However methinks the lawyer did not charge for self promotion in the national media that might be illegal N'esy Pas?
Mike Miles
The US is becoming a bit of a
headache for Canadians these days. The dollar is not good for travel
there , everyone is angry with the state of the union , and the border
agents are happy to turn away tourists who want to spend money there.
Just say no and go somewhere else.
Sam Denoff
@Mike Miles
Please speak for yourself. I'm not angry with the state of the union. I love visiting the U.S. and despite the dollar, I save a great deal of money on U.S. purchases, especially gas.
Can't be bothered letting one man affect my life in such a way that I should stop choosing destinations to visit that I very much enjoy. Why give him that power? It's just silly.
Please speak for yourself. I'm not angry with the state of the union. I love visiting the U.S. and despite the dollar, I save a great deal of money on U.S. purchases, especially gas.
Can't be bothered letting one man affect my life in such a way that I should stop choosing destinations to visit that I very much enjoy. Why give him that power? It's just silly.
Mark Greene
@Sam Denoff "Please speak for yourself"...Touche...
John Sollows
@Sam Denoff
'Cuz by spending money there, you are giving him power.
'Cuz by spending money there, you are giving him power.
David Amos
@Mark Greene "Please speak for yourself"
Methinks the same should be said of all of us N'esy Pas?
Methinks the same should be said of all of us N'esy Pas?
Jason Martin
Why Canadians insist on
buying real estate in the U.S. is beyond me. There are plenty of other
countries who will welcome you with open arms, and they need your money
more the States does.
David Amos
@Jason Martin "Why Canadians insist on buying real estate in the U.S. is beyond me."
Methinks the biggest reason is because some of have children who live in the USA and they need a roof over their head N'esy Pas?
Methinks the biggest reason is because some of have children who live in the USA and they need a roof over their head N'esy Pas?
Dax Randall
US border officers are power hungry...and dumb.
Alex Forbes
@Dax Randall Yes. Insult them because you made a mistake...
David Amos
@Dax Randall "US border officers are power hungry...and dumb."
Methinks that is an understatement N'esy Pas?
Methinks that is an understatement N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Alex Forbes "Insult them because you made a mistake."
Methinks the border guards in Canada and the USA know that I made no mistakes other than expecting them to act with some semblance of Integrity N'esy Pas?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
Methinks the border guards in Canada and the USA know that I made no mistakes other than expecting them to act with some semblance of Integrity N'esy Pas?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
This dude's first comment evaporated between the time it took for me to refresh the page but he posted a similar remark later In response to CBC's malicious actions much later and long after the comment section is usually closed I posted exactly the same reply to his next comment
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David Amos
@Bill Baird I do I am the Very Proud Father of 2 Yankees
Bill Baird
David Amos
Trust that I talked to Trump's people in 2015 BEFORE I ran in the election of the 42nd Parliament in 2015
Everybody knows this story appeared in the Kings County Record on June 22, 2004
Trump and everybody knows that I have run for public office 5 more times since
then including an procincial electin un undy a month ago election. Clearly nothing has changed since 2004 N'esy Pas?
The Unconventional Candidate
By Gisele McKnight
"FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos. The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running for office in Canada."
"Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his dissatisfaction with politicians. "I've become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
"What he's fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, the exploitation of the Maritimes' gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to name a few.
"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing, farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I'm death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it (NAFTA) out the window
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico."
Joey Andrews
Max Low
Johnny Johnson
David Amos
@Bill Baird I do I am the Very Proud Father of 2 Yankees
Bill Baird
Who would want to travel to the USA anyway? Too many Americans there.
Doug Germaine
@Bill Baird Right...
Neil Fedder
@Andrew Karpavicius just goes to show, lots of stupid people out there
Ronald Canell
@Bill Baird
Many people travel south during winter to get a break from the cold weather and many Canadians like the warm weather of Arizona or California or Florida.
Many people travel south during winter to get a break from the cold weather and many Canadians like the warm weather of Arizona or California or Florida.
Ronald Canell
@Neil Fedder And lots of rich people go South every winter.
Don King
@Bill Baird - I think it’s because people who are alike want to congregate.
David Amos
@Bill Baird "Who would want to travel to the USA anyway?"
I do I am the Very Proud Father of 2 Yankees
I do I am the Very Proud Father of 2 Yankees
David Amos
@Ronald Canell "Many people
travel south during winter to get a break from the cold weather and many
Canadians like the warm weather of Arizona or California or Florida."
Methinks everybody knows many of our Snowbirds including me Father children south of the 49th, buy property , buy insurance, open bank account, pay taxes and get "Florida Only" drivers license etc. In return Canada shares our Canadian bank account info with Yankees because of FATCA N'esy Pas?
Methinks everybody knows many of our Snowbirds including me Father children south of the 49th, buy property , buy insurance, open bank account, pay taxes and get "Florida Only" drivers license etc. In return Canada shares our Canadian bank account info with Yankees because of FATCA N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Never mind what the lawyers advise consider this Simply print page 2 of this file
https://www.scribd.com/document/2619437/CROSS-BORDER
Then educate yourself a bit by Googling the following Trump Cohen Amos NAFTA FATCA TPP
Then if a border guard harasses you about smoking dope simply as him if is picking on you because you are a friend on mine then give him the document you printed and tell the border guard to call me Trust that his boss Mr Trump has my number.
https://www.scribd.com/document/2619437/CROSS-BORDER
Then educate yourself a bit by Googling the following Trump Cohen Amos NAFTA FATCA TPP
Then if a border guard harasses you about smoking dope simply as him if is picking on you because you are a friend on mine then give him the document you printed and tell the border guard to call me Trust that his boss Mr Trump has my number.
David Amos
@David Amos Trust that Trump is far more concerned about his new NAFTA deal than the Canadian fondness of wacky tobacky
Trust that I talked to Trump's people in 2015 BEFORE I ran in the election of the 42nd Parliament in 2015
Everybody knows this story appeared in the Kings County Record on June 22, 2004
Trump and everybody knows that I have run for public office 5 more times since
then including an procincial electin un undy a month ago election. Clearly nothing has changed since 2004 N'esy Pas?
The Unconventional Candidate
By Gisele McKnight
"FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos. The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running for office in Canada."
"Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his dissatisfaction with politicians. "I've become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
"What he's fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, the exploitation of the Maritimes' gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to name a few.
"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing, farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I'm death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it (NAFTA) out the window
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico."
Joey Andrews
I don't see any reason not to
lie reading the story? Of course you can lie they're not gonna call and
ask your friends. Just say no and drive on. Sounds to me like Mr.
Lawyer is looking for customers.
Fred Henderson
@Joey Andrews
Free advice is worth every penny you paid for it. Of course you say no.
Free advice is worth every penny you paid for it. Of course you say no.
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David Amos
@Joey Andrews "Sounds to me like Mr. Lawyer is looking for customers."
That is exactly what they are up to
Methinks if the wealthy lawyer's wife asked how she looks in her new jeans or whatever he better lie as well even if he disagreed because he knows he could suffer far worse than what any nasty Yankee border guard can do to you N'esy Pas?
That is exactly what they are up to
Methinks if the wealthy lawyer's wife asked how she looks in her new jeans or whatever he better lie as well even if he disagreed because he knows he could suffer far worse than what any nasty Yankee border guard can do to you N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Joey Andrews "Sounds to me like Mr. Lawyer is looking for customers."
That is exactly what they are up to
That is exactly what they are up to
Max Low
Does Canadian Border Services treat Americans the same way when entering Canada?
Kerry Thurston
@Max Low
I cross the border weekly .....and there are turkeys on both sides.
I cross the border weekly .....and there are turkeys on both sides.
David Amos
@Kerry Thurston YUP
Johnny Johnson
How does Ford cross without any problems?
Adam Howard
@Johnny Johnson
How does Justin?
How does Justin?
Zoe Mitchell
@Adam Howard Already been covered here many, many many times - scroll down
David Amos
@Johnny Johnson "How does Ford cross without any problems?"
Or Trudeau The Younger or Kim Campbell etc etc etc
Or Trudeau The Younger or Kim Campbell etc etc etc
Ben Brown
The solution is to send marijuana seeds to every American you know.
Arthur Robeson
@Ben Brown - Didn't work out so well for Marc Emery....he ended up in American prison for doing that.
David Amos
@Arthur Robeson Methinksr one
of the many dudes he smoked dope with became our latest Prime Minister
afterwards and has been overseeing the prosecution of his old buddy ever
since Strange world N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/emery-arrest-plead-guilty-toronto-court-1.4454456
Pot activists Marc and Jodie Emery plead guilty, sentenced in drug-related court case
The Emerys, who were arrested in Toronto in March, fined $195,000 for operating illegal dispensaries
The Canadian Press · Posted: Dec 18, 2017 1:26 PM ET
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/marc-emery-fine-drug-trafficking-1.4685002
Pot activist Marc Emery gets $5K fine for drug trafficking in Montreal
Emery pleaded guilty to charge linked with Dec. 2016 opening of Cannabis Culture locations
Elysha Enos · CBC News · Posted: May 30, 2018 9:14 PM ET
BTW I spook with both Marc and Jodie Emery over the years while I was running for public office and I did not like either of them. Furthermore I rarely drink booze, never had a beer in my life and don't care if dope is legal or not not because I don't smoke it . I have enough trouble dealing with my fondness of coffee, cigarettes and sugared doughnuts. I do not need another bad habit.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/emery-arrest-plead-guilty-toronto-court-1.4454456
Pot activists Marc and Jodie Emery plead guilty, sentenced in drug-related court case
The Emerys, who were arrested in Toronto in March, fined $195,000 for operating illegal dispensaries
The Canadian Press · Posted: Dec 18, 2017 1:26 PM ET
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/marc-emery-fine-drug-trafficking-1.4685002
Pot activist Marc Emery gets $5K fine for drug trafficking in Montreal
Emery pleaded guilty to charge linked with Dec. 2016 opening of Cannabis Culture locations
Elysha Enos · CBC News · Posted: May 30, 2018 9:14 PM ET
BTW I spook with both Marc and Jodie Emery over the years while I was running for public office and I did not like either of them. Furthermore I rarely drink booze, never had a beer in my life and don't care if dope is legal or not not because I don't smoke it . I have enough trouble dealing with my fondness of coffee, cigarettes and sugared doughnuts. I do not need another bad habit.
Bill Martin
Suddenly the 'devil may care' days of one's youth return decades later to bite you in the adze.
Ray Davies
@Bill Martin
Only if you have family in the US or are required to do business there...otherwise it's not that big of a deal. Or you could just be sensible and not say yes or something equally stupid like try to avoid the question.
Only if you have family in the US or are required to do business there...otherwise it's not that big of a deal. Or you could just be sensible and not say yes or something equally stupid like try to avoid the question.
David Amos
@Bill Martin What if pulled a
Flip Wilson and confessed your sins to the Yankee border guards then
told them that the devil made you do it? Do ya think they would laugh a
let ya go?
Pierre Sylvan
@Bill Martin
Unless you want to get on the Supreme Court
Unless you want to get on the Supreme Court
Ray Davies
@David Amos
Seems like they would but they might not...they have the right to detain you and you can't withdraw your intention to cross the border once they've got you. They'll have to let you go at some point but who knows how long that could be...
Seems like they would but they might not...they have the right to detain you and you can't withdraw your intention to cross the border once they've got you. They'll have to let you go at some point but who knows how long that could be...
David Amos
@Ray Davies Methinks I have
the ticket out of trouble with nasty Yankee Border Guards Check out page
2 of this old file I am way above their pay grade N'esy Pas?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
@Pierre Sylvan "Unless you want to get on the Supreme Court"
Funny you should say that I about to send the Supreme Court my lawsuit in short order . If you doubt me just Google David Amos Federal Court
Funny you should say that I about to send the Supreme Court my lawsuit in short order . If you doubt me just Google David Amos Federal Court
Norm Cunningham
@David Amos nope, i don’t think so!
I once took a box of Pot of Gold chocolates as a gift into the U.S.
their customs guy saw it, wrapped by manufacturer and demanded I open it to prove it was chocolates. . . I did, then offered him one, lol. He of course declined, but did let me through.
I once took a box of Pot of Gold chocolates as a gift into the U.S.
their customs guy saw it, wrapped by manufacturer and demanded I open it to prove it was chocolates. . . I did, then offered him one, lol. He of course declined, but did let me through.
John Oliver
@Norm Cunningham
Lucky it wasn't a Kinder Surprise. They might have locked you up for 2 years.
Lucky it wasn't a Kinder Surprise. They might have locked you up for 2 years.
David Amos
@Norm Cunningham Methinks I
have a better one for ya. I am a Proud Candain citizen but I have
permanent resident status in the USA because I am married to an American
and the very proud Father of two children with dual citizenship.
Anyway one time I encountered a border guard with no sense of ha ha at all. who maintained that since I was an American resident that I could not cross the border with my antique Harley registered in Nova Scotia. I asked why because I am a Canadian not a Yankee and I still own property in Canada. He could not argue himself out of a wet paper bag with a dude who loves to sue lawyers so he upped the ante and threatened to seize my Harley if I dd not sign documents promising to register the bike in the in the USA ASAP. In the process of filling out forms he demanded that I prove that the old Harley was made in the USA on the spot or he was gonna make me pay a lots of duties as well.
Well I had bought in the USA years before and paid a lot of duty bringing it to Canada but I certainly should not have to pay any duty on bringing a product built in the USA back. Anyway even though everybody knows that Harleys are built in the USA try proving it on the spot to a jerk. Antiques don't come with EPA stickers etc. Anyway I thought a minute then pointed to the taillight lens. Caste in the plastic is "Made in the USA." The Jerk let me ride away because his cohorts were starting to laugh at his malicious nonsense.
True story
David Amos
@David Amos Speaking of
Border guards Trust that I gave this file to both the Canadian and
Yankee border guards in 2004 when I came home to run in the Election of
the 38th Parliament in the riding called Fundy Royal. i have run or
public office 5 more times since then
https://www.scribd.com/document/2619437/CROSS-BORDER
Methinks page 2 should give Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen a stroke on All Hallows Eve Quite an "October Surprise" even if I do say so myself N'esy Pas?
Google "Fundy Royal Debate" sometime if you want a pretty good chuckle
https://www.scribd.com/document/2619437/CROSS-BORDER
Methinks page 2 should give Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen a stroke on All Hallows Eve Quite an "October Surprise" even if I do say so myself N'esy Pas?
Google "Fundy Royal Debate" sometime if you want a pretty good chuckle
Justin Maheu
how much information collected at the border is sold to insurance companies?
David Amos
@Justin Maheu None They get it for free because most are owned by banksters
Frank Farid
cbc is BS
David Amos
@Frank Farid I agree
Arthur Robeson
@Frank Farid - Funded by Canadian taxpayers !
David Amos
@Arthur Robeson Therein lies the rub
David Amos
@Arthur Robeson Did I run for a seat in the 42nd Parliament or did I not?
https://www.google.com/search?q=cbc+fundy+royal&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b
https://www.google.com/search?q=cbc+fundy+royal&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b
John J. Mellor
I have legal weed, don't need to visit a banana republic run by a despot.
David Amos
@John J. Mellor Trust that they don't care
John J. Mellor
If it wasn't for Americans I might visit there.
David Amos
@John J. Mellor Trust that they don't miss you
@David Amos
have with every bullet so far.
have with every bullet so far.
John J. Mellor
See the Nixon roadmap to impeachment was released today. 44 years later it was unsealed, use the roadmap well Mr. Mueller.
David Amos
@John J. Mellor "use the roadmap well Mr. Mueller"
Checkout page 2 ad some other document in this old file and say Hoka Hey to yoor Yankee hero Mr Mueller for me will ya?
Checkout page 2 ad some other document in this old file and say Hoka Hey to yoor Yankee hero Mr Mueller for me will ya?
David Amos
@David Amos Mueller and his former lawyer (now a judge) page 2
https://www.scribd.com/document/2619437/CROSS-BORDER
https://www.scribd.com/document/2619437/CROSS-BORDER
John J. Mellor
Americans ruined America.
David Amos
@John J. Mellor Methinks its
their country to do with what they wish We have a problem with what we
help them doing to other countries N'esy Pas?
James Smith
@David Amos potheads have
this cognitive problem, and dont you know, according to drug users, mj
is harmless, makes you a better driver and cures all ills....no wonder
why the USA doesnt want our stoners entering their country!
John J. Mellor
@James Smith
but drunken louts are allowed.
but drunken louts are allowed.
James Smith
@John J. Mellor It is their country, your point of view is meaningless.
Mark Greene
@James Smith Its their reefer
madness and commons sense be damned, despite over 80 years of failed MJ
prohibition they keep on keeping on, while the individual states
continue to legalize recreational marijuana.
David Amos
@James Smith Who cares? I
don't because I don't smoke dope and rarely drink but I am honest enough
to admit that I have partaken of the stuff when I was much younger but
not much of it because dope made me lazy and booze gave me wicked
hangovers. The question is do you drink? I do know for fact I would
rather see a dude stoned than drunk
Trish Nesbitt
So what happens to a American
who comes to Canada to smoke pot leagally , then returns and is asked
the question and admits it. Are they charged , jailed , given 200$ and a
pass ????!
David Amos
@Paul Paterson Are you a lawyer? If so then trust me I don't believe you.
mo bennett
just in never quite thought this one thru, right just in!
Samuel Porter
@mo bennett think he cares if you can get in? nope.
David Amos
@mo bennett Yo Mo who cares where you wish to go?
Rick Ciz
And yet the US still occupies Afghanistan after 10 years, guarding the poppy fields.
David Amos
@Rick Ciz Check your math
Methinks its been far more than ten years since we assisted the Yankee
invasion called Operation Enduring Freedom on October 7th, 2001 N'esy
Pas?
Michael Gnit
If you wish to obtain a waver
there are some tricks you should be aware of. The process is so anal
that if you do something in the wrong order by accident the money you
have paid is gone and you must start the entire process again. The
American Government can deny you at any time during the process and
scope your money. They are never required to give you a reason.
I know I was denied entry when my pot possession charge showed up on their computer. I had absolutely no idea I was denied entry so when I tried to enter that entire affair was a colourful language filled affair.
My advice don't bother they have so many pickles you know where it's not worth it
I know I was denied entry when my pot possession charge showed up on their computer. I had absolutely no idea I was denied entry so when I tried to enter that entire affair was a colourful language filled affair.
My advice don't bother they have so many pickles you know where it's not worth it
David Amos
@Michael Gnit A friend of mine had the same problem over 25 years ago. When he went to board a plane in Alberta heading overseas. He was not going to visit the USA but the plane had land in there to refuel before going across the Pacific. Anyway he and been to the States countless times with no problem whatsoever. However this time the US Border Guard in a Canadian airport found that he had plead guilty to having a joint in his possession when he was 18. The Yankee would not allow him to board the plane and he lost a expensive trip (no refunds) because of it. He died trying to have the problem fixed. Now that the stuff is legal he must be rolling in his grave
@Michael Gnit A friend of mine had the same problem over 25 years ago. When he went to board a plane in Alberta heading overseas. He was not going to visit the USA but the plane had land in there to refuel before going across the Pacific. Anyway he and been to the States countless times with no problem whatsoever. However this time the US Border Guard in a Canadian airport found that he had plead guilty to having a joint in his possession when he was 18. The Yankee would not allow him to board the plane and he lost a expensive trip (no refunds) because of it. He died trying to have the problem fixed. Now that the stuff is legal he must be rolling in his grave
Everett Mincey
There is a foolproof way to avoid border conflicts-stop going to USA. Unless there is an absolute reason involving significant business needs or personal tragedy this is a good time in our history with US to put leisure travel on hold until border laws change. A significant drop in Canadian visits will have a large effect on US border crossing laws. Recently, there has been a large drop in Chinese tourism due to measures by US to discourage Chinese tourists. Tourism and visitor-based businesses in America will put pressure on officialdom to change how border crossings are handled. Just be patient and things will change!
Marguerite Deschamps
@Everett Mincey, nothing the
US of A will change my mind about crossing their border. Their border
officers have always been rude and ignorant. Nothing will change.
Eric Giesbrecht
@Marguerite Deschamps
.Strange i have always thought they were very polite etc , it's coming
back that the hassles start with the Canadian guards
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David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps
Methinks the nasty Yankee border guards remind many local folks of the
snobby Quebeckers who think they know all about the Maritimes Trust that
the Feds in Canada and the USA know that I have many Cajun and Acadian
friends who no doubt agree with me N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
@Eric Giesbrecht, it was
never the case out east. Canadian guards were always polite and
respectful. But I have not been anywhere near a US border for decades.
Richard Mackay
@Marguerite Deschamps I have
traveled extensively for business and I think it is a North American
thing. Of all the Developed countries (EU, USA Canada, Japan and Korea)
only two stand out as having ignorant, nasty, impolite and power trips,
USA CBP and Canada's CBSA both are thoroughly unpleasant people to deal
with! Actually the CBSA has been the most unpleasant of the two!
Marguerite Deschamps
@David Amos, it depends on
the Quebecker. Some are nasty while others are very nice people. Same
goes for some US people as well. It's normally the ignorant from the
boondocks that paint everyone with the same brush.
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David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps "ignorant from the boondocks "
Methinks you think I resemble your not so sly remark. However you were so busy knowing it all about everything that you did not bother to get the first clue about me before you opted to libel me N'esy Pas?
Methinks you think I resemble your not so sly remark. However you were so busy knowing it all about everything that you did not bother to get the first clue about me before you opted to libel me N'esy Pas?
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David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks CBC must be protecting you from "a ghost of comments past" on All Hallows Eve N'esy Pas?
John Peters
@Marguerite Deschamps
If you haven't been near a US border for decades, then you probably don't know if they are rude.
If you haven't been near a US border for decades, then you probably don't know if they are rude.
David Amos
@John Peters Methinks the lady doth protest too much N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
@David Amos, you have made protesting your fulltime job.
David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks that may be the understatement of the year but you have no clue as to why N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
@David Amos, just a wild guess; a Freeman on the Land?
David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps
Methinks if you had bothered to read my lawsuit in Federal Court then
you would have understood that is the last thing I am. I am in fact the
Chief of the Amos Clan. A Justice of Federal Court and former General
Counsel for the Irving Clan in New Bruswick asked me during an oral
argument on January 11th. 2016 how I wished to be addressed because he
and the RCMP and everybody else working for the Queen knows that I am
definitely no "brother" or "friend" of the Crown counsels I have been
arguing since 1982 N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps BTW the
reason you have no clue as to who I am is because most of my replies to
you are blocked Methinks you should ask yourself why. Furthermore its
rather comical in one thread it looks like you are arguing a ghost on
All Hallows Eve N'esy Pas?
Marguerite Deschamps
No need to ban me, I banned
myself decades ago. And I never indulged in the stuff, and never will.
The US of A will not have the chance to see the colour of my $money$. I
spend it here and elsewhere
David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Of that I have no dobt
Marguerite Deschamps
Europe is my favourite place to visit where they mock the Yanks for having elected a maroon as president.
Chris James
@Marguerite Deschamps Where
people speak 3 or more languages, have traveled outside their own
country, and do not fear foreign people, food and customs?
Arthur Robeson
@Marguerite Deschamps - They
they demand that the maroon American president continue to protect
deadbeat NATO nations, including Canada.
Marguerite Deschamps
@Chris James, which is one more reason to go to Europe. I speak fluent English and French and can get by in Spanish and Italian.
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David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks he is merely a buffoon and suspect that the Quebecker in you met moron N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps So you
say Since you have no idea who you have been attacking Please allow me
to introduce myself to your fans in CBC
In 1967 in New Brunswick I took special French lessons and I studied Latin too because as a kid I truly believed that you knew as many people.as you knew languages and Latin was a good place to start. I went to Expo 67 for free thanks to Lord Beaverbrook's widow. Need isay I loved chasing the French girls in my air cadet uniform with the corporal stripes. Let just say i have been called mon petite chou a time or two. I got the stripes after returning from Base Greenwood were I was sent as a reward to fly on aircraft because I did well with the flying scholarship test even though I was not given any books to study because I was too young.
In 1970 I was accepted into Royal Military College in St Jean Quebec without having to write my finals in High School because I got 99 on my math and physics matrixs only because they did not score to the 100th mark. I did not go to St Jean because I did not like the very snobby French men interviewing me. I never bothered to return to University after trying it a couple years because I did not appreciate the snobby professors either and gave up on forma education and went into business which proved to fairly lucrative.
In 1982 when Trudeau The Elder forced French down the throat of New Brunswickers I quit speaking French. I may not speak as many languages as you but I have been to Europe too. I know for fact that Quebeckers are not popular in a lot of places such as Louisiana and New Brunswick because they are such snobs about their command of the French lingo.
In 1967 in New Brunswick I took special French lessons and I studied Latin too because as a kid I truly believed that you knew as many people.as you knew languages and Latin was a good place to start. I went to Expo 67 for free thanks to Lord Beaverbrook's widow. Need isay I loved chasing the French girls in my air cadet uniform with the corporal stripes. Let just say i have been called mon petite chou a time or two. I got the stripes after returning from Base Greenwood were I was sent as a reward to fly on aircraft because I did well with the flying scholarship test even though I was not given any books to study because I was too young.
In 1970 I was accepted into Royal Military College in St Jean Quebec without having to write my finals in High School because I got 99 on my math and physics matrixs only because they did not score to the 100th mark. I did not go to St Jean because I did not like the very snobby French men interviewing me. I never bothered to return to University after trying it a couple years because I did not appreciate the snobby professors either and gave up on forma education and went into business which proved to fairly lucrative.
In 1982 when Trudeau The Elder forced French down the throat of New Brunswickers I quit speaking French. I may not speak as many languages as you but I have been to Europe too. I know for fact that Quebeckers are not popular in a lot of places such as Louisiana and New Brunswick because they are such snobs about their command of the French lingo.
Marguerite Deschamps
@Arthur Robeson, the US stuck
their nose in so many other countries and now they want other countries
to spend money in order to help protect them from the countries where
they raised Cain.
David Amos
@Arthur Robeson Methinks you should be made aware the lady is protected by the "Powers That Be" in CBC N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Can you drive an ambulance? We need your help down here ASAP EH?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/galllant-higgs-bilingual-ambulance-language-rights-1.4886283
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/galllant-higgs-bilingual-ambulance-language-rights-1.4886283
Marguerite Deschamps
@David Amos, your loss for being so stubborn!
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David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps Methinks you just proved to us all once again that you truly know nothing about New Brunswick N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps "the US
stuck their nose in so many other countries and now they want other
countries to spend money in order to help protect them from the
countries where they raised Cain."
Whereas you know so much about the Maritimes, the USA and Europe etc what was your opinion again about why I ran in the election of the 38th Parliament? You do read the corporate media N'esy Pas?
Everybody knows this story appeared in the Kings County Record on June 22, 2004
The Unconventional Candidate
By Gisele McKnight
"FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos. The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running for office in Canada."
"Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his dissatisfaction with politicians. "I've become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
"What he's fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, the exploitation of the Maritimes' gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to name a few.
"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing, farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I'm death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it (NAFTA) out the window
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico."
Whereas you know so much about the Maritimes, the USA and Europe etc what was your opinion again about why I ran in the election of the 38th Parliament? You do read the corporate media N'esy Pas?
Everybody knows this story appeared in the Kings County Record on June 22, 2004
The Unconventional Candidate
By Gisele McKnight
"FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos. The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from running for office in Canada."
"Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his dissatisfaction with politicians. "I've become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
"What he's fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood, the exploitation of the Maritimes' gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to name a few.
"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing, farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I'm death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it (NAFTA) out the window
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico."
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David Amos
@Marguerite Deschamps "your loss for being so stubborn!"
Methinks this should be an easy question for you to answer without leaving the comment sections of this domain. N'esy Pas?
Did I run in the election of the 42nd Parliament in Fundy Royal again or did I not?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276
Fundy Royal campaign targets middle class with focus on jobs
Fundy Royal voters have elected Conservatives all but 1 time in 28 elections over 101 years
CBC News · Posted: Oct 17, 2015 6:00 AM AT
The stinking hypocrisy over pot finally ending: Neil Macdonald
A look at Canada's damaging history with marijuana and what legalization might bring
· CBC News · Posted: Dec 14, 2016 5:00 AM ET
My late father was born early enough to
remember mail-order catalogues offering THC capsules to people who were
having trouble sleeping or eating.
It worked, obviously. THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the active ingredient in cannabis, and while the term "the munchies" didn't exist in rural Ontario during the first two decades of the 20th century, that's what the catalogues were selling. That, and a nice buzz.
Anyway, Dad said it was elderly people, farmers worn out by a life of hard labour, who used the capsules, and no one connected the drug to murder, insanity, death or the rape of white women by members of other races.
Then, in 1923, Canada lost its mind, bought the murder, rape and insanity thing, and criminalized cannabis, and for the next 93 years — to this very day — has persecuted heaven knows how many people, ruining lives, ending careers, denying comfort to the ill, and actually sending people to the horror of prison, all for something most smart people knew all along is a piddling, victimless act.
Of course, most victims of this were young people, who are more easily caught than adults with private homes. Or minorities, because they're shaken down far more often by police.
And the stinking hypocrisy was that plenty of politicians, including prime ministers, and plenty of police, and plenty of judges had, at one time or another, smoked a joint themselves, but remained willing to continue wrecking other people's lives for doing the same thing.
Few had the courage to speak out.
Twenty years or so ago, doing a documentary on cannabis, I spoke to a man who, as a university law student in 1979, had persuaded the Joe Clark government to propose decriminalization in the speech from the throne. (When I asked Clark many years later what happened to that initiative, he answered: "Ronald Reagan happened.")
Prime Minister Joe Clark mentioned the possibility of decriminalizing marijuana back in 1979. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press)
But
would that former law student talk on the record? Umm, no. Because, you
see, he'd become a Crown attorney, and although he assured me his views
had not changed, the police wouldn't appreciate them.
I also called a judge (later to become a much more senior and famous judge) who, in her student days, had advocated for reform of marijuana laws. Would she speak? Please don't mention me, she said.
Ditto a federal public servant who'd once headed the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) in 1979. He was just plain scared by 1993; he hung up on me.
I even approached former justice minister Kim Campbell, running for prime minister at the time, to ask if she'd ever smoked pot. Yes, she said haughtily, but if you understand the law, Mr. Macdonald, you'll know I never violated it, because I never possessed the drug. It was passed to me. (The Mounties instantly disagreed with her legal opinion.)
During the 1993 campaign, Prime Minister Kim Campbell admitted she'd smoked marijuana before. (Tom Hanson/Canadian Press)
It
was a variation on Bill Clinton's not inhaling. Ridiculous, almost
cowardly. Or Barack Obama, who admitted cocaine use in a memoir, then
oversaw national crackdowns on pot.
Which brings us to Justin Trudeau. Let's be clear here: He openly acknowledged having used cannabis, and decided not just to decriminalize it, but to outright legalize it.
Good for Justin Trudeau. That took guts. That's called courageous leadership.
Conservatives, of course, will screech about this, until they shut up and accept it, the way they've given up fighting gay marriage.
But the weird thing is that legalization of marijuana is, strictly speaking, a conservative idea. Conservatives are, or are supposed to be, laissez-faire.
It's liberals who desperately want to use government to protect people from themselves.
Disclosure here: I enthusiastically smoked cannabis for years, until I stopped. It weirds me out now, and I can't handle it. It never made me want to try heroin, though, or rape anybody, or steal to get my pot fix. I am 100 per cent sure alcohol and tobacco, the single most preventable cause of cancer, did me far more damage. Let the government outlaw tobacco if it's so concerned about public health.
We are still in bizzaro world, by the way. We're supposed to be so much more progressive than the Americans, and yet hundreds of millions of Americans live in states where possession of cannabis is completely legal, or an offence that merits nothing more than a traffic ticket. At the same time, the Americans will bar a Canadian from the U.S. for life for admitting ever having smoked dope, and may continue to do so, especially under their bizarro-world new president.
And don't forget, there's a hell of a lot of money at stake here. Police, who have for decades inflated their budgets by busting kids for pot during the "war on drugs," are no doubt having urgent discussions with their political masters about keeping those budgets intact.
Police raids on marijuana dispensaries made plenty of headlines in Canada this year. (Judy Trinh/CBC)
And of course other public servants are licking their chops at the prospect of enlarging their departments.
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario is already waving its hand around anxiously. The recommendation of the federal task force that marijuana be sold in a separate facility from alcohol is even better; new LCBOs (MCBOs?) can be built, and all sorts more staff hired, thereby grossly inflating the price of a joint. It's the Canadian way.
No doubt some LCBO executives are already planning glossy monthly magazines suggesting pairings of Thai-stick or Maui Wowee with a nice leg of lamb or a risotto. The governments that sent people to prison for pot will be promoting it. Shamelessness always pays.
Customers
browse samples at Shango Cannabis shop on the first day of legal
recreational marijuana sales in Portland, Ore., in October 2015. (Steve Dipaola/Reuters)
You
can bet a month's pay that conservative corporate Canada is already
planning to elbow aside the funky little shops selling things like
"purple kush" and the "edibles" bakeries, the sort that operate in
Colorado and Washington. We don't want to be having too much fun.
Here's something else you can count on: tax, and lots of it. This week's task force recommendations even proposed taxing more potent pot more heavily. For everyone's safety, of course.
Nothing ever really changes.
Oh, and one other thing: once legalization happens, anybody with a marijuana-related criminal record should be pardoned.
This column is an opinion. For more information about our commentary section, please read this editor's blog and our FAQ.
It worked, obviously. THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the active ingredient in cannabis, and while the term "the munchies" didn't exist in rural Ontario during the first two decades of the 20th century, that's what the catalogues were selling. That, and a nice buzz.
Anyway, Dad said it was elderly people, farmers worn out by a life of hard labour, who used the capsules, and no one connected the drug to murder, insanity, death or the rape of white women by members of other races.
Then, in 1923, Canada lost its mind, bought the murder, rape and insanity thing, and criminalized cannabis, and for the next 93 years — to this very day — has persecuted heaven knows how many people, ruining lives, ending careers, denying comfort to the ill, and actually sending people to the horror of prison, all for something most smart people knew all along is a piddling, victimless act.
Lives ruined
Of course, most victims of this were young people, who are more easily caught than adults with private homes. Or minorities, because they're shaken down far more often by police.
And the stinking hypocrisy was that plenty of politicians, including prime ministers, and plenty of police, and plenty of judges had, at one time or another, smoked a joint themselves, but remained willing to continue wrecking other people's lives for doing the same thing.
Few had the courage to speak out.
Twenty years or so ago, doing a documentary on cannabis, I spoke to a man who, as a university law student in 1979, had persuaded the Joe Clark government to propose decriminalization in the speech from the throne. (When I asked Clark many years later what happened to that initiative, he answered: "Ronald Reagan happened.")
I also called a judge (later to become a much more senior and famous judge) who, in her student days, had advocated for reform of marijuana laws. Would she speak? Please don't mention me, she said.
Ditto a federal public servant who'd once headed the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) in 1979. He was just plain scared by 1993; he hung up on me.
I even approached former justice minister Kim Campbell, running for prime minister at the time, to ask if she'd ever smoked pot. Yes, she said haughtily, but if you understand the law, Mr. Macdonald, you'll know I never violated it, because I never possessed the drug. It was passed to me. (The Mounties instantly disagreed with her legal opinion.)
Which brings us to Justin Trudeau. Let's be clear here: He openly acknowledged having used cannabis, and decided not just to decriminalize it, but to outright legalize it.
Good for Justin Trudeau. That took guts. That's called courageous leadership.
Conservatives, of course, will screech about this, until they shut up and accept it, the way they've given up fighting gay marriage.
But the weird thing is that legalization of marijuana is, strictly speaking, a conservative idea. Conservatives are, or are supposed to be, laissez-faire.
It's liberals who desperately want to use government to protect people from themselves.
Disclosure here: I enthusiastically smoked cannabis for years, until I stopped. It weirds me out now, and I can't handle it. It never made me want to try heroin, though, or rape anybody, or steal to get my pot fix. I am 100 per cent sure alcohol and tobacco, the single most preventable cause of cancer, did me far more damage. Let the government outlaw tobacco if it's so concerned about public health.
Big money
We are still in bizzaro world, by the way. We're supposed to be so much more progressive than the Americans, and yet hundreds of millions of Americans live in states where possession of cannabis is completely legal, or an offence that merits nothing more than a traffic ticket. At the same time, the Americans will bar a Canadian from the U.S. for life for admitting ever having smoked dope, and may continue to do so, especially under their bizarro-world new president.
And don't forget, there's a hell of a lot of money at stake here. Police, who have for decades inflated their budgets by busting kids for pot during the "war on drugs," are no doubt having urgent discussions with their political masters about keeping those budgets intact.
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario is already waving its hand around anxiously. The recommendation of the federal task force that marijuana be sold in a separate facility from alcohol is even better; new LCBOs (MCBOs?) can be built, and all sorts more staff hired, thereby grossly inflating the price of a joint. It's the Canadian way.
No doubt some LCBO executives are already planning glossy monthly magazines suggesting pairings of Thai-stick or Maui Wowee with a nice leg of lamb or a risotto. The governments that sent people to prison for pot will be promoting it. Shamelessness always pays.
Here's something else you can count on: tax, and lots of it. This week's task force recommendations even proposed taxing more potent pot more heavily. For everyone's safety, of course.
Nothing ever really changes.
Oh, and one other thing: once legalization happens, anybody with a marijuana-related criminal record should be pardoned.
This column is an opinion. For more information about our commentary section, please read this editor's blog and our FAQ.
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Thinking about lying to U.S. border agents about your pot use? 'Do not do that. Trust me,' says lawyer
Rather than lying or admitting pot use, experts suggest a third option: delay
Al Larocque says he's always been truthful when crossing the border.
But if the Fruitvale, B.C., resident is asked by U.S. border agents if he's ever smoked marijuana, he knows what he's going to do.
"I'm going to lie," he said Tuesday.
"I don't want to lie. And I'm going to lie. And that is unfortunate. Because I am a truthful person and I think most Canadians are," he said.
Larocque is worried about getting cut off from his second home.
Still, he should rethink his plan, say lawyers consulted by CBC News.
"Do not do that. Trust me," said Henry Chang, a partner at the Toronto law firm Blaney McMurtry LLP who specializes in immigration law and practises in both Ontario and California.
The repercussions of being caught lying to a U.S. border agent outweigh the potential gain of fibbing without detection, Chang said — namely, you could be permanently banned from entering the U.S.
There are two other things that could get you banned from the U.S. in the post-Canadian legalization age, according to Chang.
The first is a prior conviction for marijuana possession.
The second is admitting to having used marijuana before its recreational use was legalized by the Canadian government on Oct. 17.
Henry
Chang, an immigration lawyer based in Toronto, says people can refuse
to answer the question and seek American legal advice in the meantime. (Blaney McMurtry LLP)
"If
you say, 'Yeah, I smoked marijuana when I was 18, but it's not a
problem, right?' — it is problem. You are barred for life, as if you had
been convicted back then. People don't understand that," said Chang.
"Legalization doesn't cure prior problems," he added.
Medical
marijuana users with a valid prescription are exempt from this
category, though they still can't import any marijuana into the U.S.
What about recreational users who admit to doing marijuana after it was legalized?
"It's not as black and white," said Chang.
If it was a one-time tryout by a curious newbie involving cannabis bought from a legal Canadian seller, "you should be OK," he said.
But a person who admits to using cannabis repeatedly could still be barred from entering the United States, said Chang.
"If they conclude that you're a drug abuser [or addict], you're barred [on] that ground, separate and apart from whether it's legal or not."
That conclusion can't be reached, however, until a Canadian panel physician approved by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) examines someone following a detention.
"You will be temporarily banned until you get the medical exam done," said Chang, adding that the findings are shared directly with CBP, not with the patient.
"If they tell you [at your next border trip] you're not getting in, you know what the medical exam said," he said.
People barred on this ground aren't necessarily banned for life, however, thanks to what Chang called a "remission provision." The panel physician (either in Vancouver, Toronto or elsewhere) may re-examine someone and find they no longer meet the definition of addict or abuser.
"But it can bar someone for several years until they have proven that they no longer use drugs, including legal cannabis," said Chang.
Andrew
Mason, a Saskatoon defence lawyer, said people with past convictions
for pot possession can obtain a waiver but it's a costly and
'cumbersome' process. (CBC)
People with a prior pot possession conviction have an option too.
They can apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for a waiver (form I-192) that would essentially see the U.S. government overlook a past offence.
People have to provide a criminal record check and references, pay a $1,200 Cdn fee and periodically get their waiver renewed.
"It's a cumbersome process," said Andrew Mason, a Saskatoon-based defence lawyer.
And it's not to be confused with a pardon from the Canadian government, which may not do any good anyway, Mason added.
"It doesn't erase the fact that you had committed the offence in the past."
Given all these strict rules, what should marijuana users do when questioned by border agents?
"That's a question I get a lot," said Chang. "It's a no-win situation for anyone who gets asked the question.
"If you admit to using controlled substances prior to legalization, you are barred," he continued. "If you lie and say you've never smoked it and they find out, it's a permanent bar for material misrepresentation, which is also quite serious."
Chang and Mason agree it's better to take a take a third, if imperfect, approach.
Delay.
"Refuse to answer the question. Say it's irrelevant. Say you don't know why this question is being asked," said Chang.
It won't get people to their destinations — and they'll merely be confronted with the same question next time — but at least they can consult a lawyer, he said.
That lawyer may even be able to resolve the situation directly with CBP "without you having to make an actual admission," said Chang.
"Because once you've admitted it, it's done. You're barred. Nothing anybody can do except apply for a waiver."
Mason is hopeful another solution can be worked out.
"I expect the governments of Canada and the U.S will get together and make it so that most people who have smoked it in the past but who are not likely to break U.S. drug laws will not be disallowed in the United States.
"But that's going to take a bit of negotiation and discussion."
But if the Fruitvale, B.C., resident is asked by U.S. border agents if he's ever smoked marijuana, he knows what he's going to do.
"I'm going to lie," he said Tuesday.
Larocque lives
just north of B.C.'s border with Washington state, a boundary he
crosses several times a year to reach his winter home in Arizona.
But a report Monday
— about Estevan, Sask., residents being refused entry into North Dakota
after admitting to past cannabis use — has Larocque spooked about his
next southbound trip next month."I don't want to lie. And I'm going to lie. And that is unfortunate. Because I am a truthful person and I think most Canadians are," he said.
Larocque is worried about getting cut off from his second home.
Still, he should rethink his plan, say lawyers consulted by CBC News.
"Do not do that. Trust me," said Henry Chang, a partner at the Toronto law firm Blaney McMurtry LLP who specializes in immigration law and practises in both Ontario and California.
The repercussions of being caught lying to a U.S. border agent outweigh the potential gain of fibbing without detection, Chang said — namely, you could be permanently banned from entering the U.S.
'People don't understand' the rules: lawyer
There are two other things that could get you banned from the U.S. in the post-Canadian legalization age, according to Chang.
The first is a prior conviction for marijuana possession.
The second is admitting to having used marijuana before its recreational use was legalized by the Canadian government on Oct. 17.
"Legalization doesn't cure prior problems," he added.
What about recreational users who admit to doing marijuana after it was legalized?
"It's not as black and white," said Chang.
If it was a one-time tryout by a curious newbie involving cannabis bought from a legal Canadian seller, "you should be OK," he said.
Medically examined for signs of addiction
But a person who admits to using cannabis repeatedly could still be barred from entering the United States, said Chang.
"If they conclude that you're a drug abuser [or addict], you're barred [on] that ground, separate and apart from whether it's legal or not."
That conclusion can't be reached, however, until a Canadian panel physician approved by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) examines someone following a detention.
"You will be temporarily banned until you get the medical exam done," said Chang, adding that the findings are shared directly with CBP, not with the patient.
"If they tell you [at your next border trip] you're not getting in, you know what the medical exam said," he said.
People barred on this ground aren't necessarily banned for life, however, thanks to what Chang called a "remission provision." The panel physician (either in Vancouver, Toronto or elsewhere) may re-examine someone and find they no longer meet the definition of addict or abuser.
"But it can bar someone for several years until they have proven that they no longer use drugs, including legal cannabis," said Chang.
They can apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for a waiver (form I-192) that would essentially see the U.S. government overlook a past offence.
People have to provide a criminal record check and references, pay a $1,200 Cdn fee and periodically get their waiver renewed.
"It's a cumbersome process," said Andrew Mason, a Saskatoon-based defence lawyer.
And it's not to be confused with a pardon from the Canadian government, which may not do any good anyway, Mason added.
"It doesn't erase the fact that you had committed the offence in the past."
Their advice? Delay
Given all these strict rules, what should marijuana users do when questioned by border agents?
"That's a question I get a lot," said Chang. "It's a no-win situation for anyone who gets asked the question.
"If you admit to using controlled substances prior to legalization, you are barred," he continued. "If you lie and say you've never smoked it and they find out, it's a permanent bar for material misrepresentation, which is also quite serious."
Chang and Mason agree it's better to take a take a third, if imperfect, approach.
Delay.
"Refuse to answer the question. Say it's irrelevant. Say you don't know why this question is being asked," said Chang.
It won't get people to their destinations — and they'll merely be confronted with the same question next time — but at least they can consult a lawyer, he said.
That lawyer may even be able to resolve the situation directly with CBP "without you having to make an actual admission," said Chang.
"Because once you've admitted it, it's done. You're barred. Nothing anybody can do except apply for a waiver."
A diplomatic solution
Mason is hopeful another solution can be worked out.
"I expect the governments of Canada and the U.S will get together and make it so that most people who have smoked it in the past but who are not likely to break U.S. drug laws will not be disallowed in the United States.
"But that's going to take a bit of negotiation and discussion."
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