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The looming border clash over Canadian marijuana

JacksinPA

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https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/409183-the-looming-border-clash-over-canadian-marijuana

Canada’s national legalization of marijuana has put it at odds with the United States where, despite growing state-level legalization, marijuana remains strictly illegal at the federal level. It was inevitable that the different approaches to marijuana would create friction between the two countries. It appears increasingly likely that this friction will be felt most acutely at the border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed recently that Canada’s legalization of marijuana will not affect how the drug is viewed and treated at the border. Rather, senior CBP officials caution that the full panoply of potential legal consequences — criminal, immigration, and otherwise — remain on the table for those who are caught crossing with Canadian marijuana at the border.
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Our border with Canada remains relatively porous, especially with regards to hardy souls who backpack 'bud' into the U.S. from BC to rural locations like northern ID.
 
JacksinPA said:
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/409183-the-looming-border-clash-over-canadian-marijuana

Canada’s national legalization of marijuana has put it at odds with the United States where, despite growing state-level legalization, marijuana remains strictly illegal at the federal level. It was inevitable that the different approaches to marijuana would create friction between the two countries. It appears increasingly likely that this friction will be felt most acutely at the border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed recently that Canada’s legalization of marijuana will not affect how the drug is viewed and treated at the border. Rather, senior CBP officials caution that the full panoply of potential legal consequences — criminal, immigration, and otherwise — remain on the table for those who are caught crossing with Canadian marijuana at the border.
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Our border with Canada remains relatively porous, especially with regards to hardy souls who backpack 'bud' into the U.S. from BC to rural locations like northern ID.
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This can change rapidly, and likely will. Governments will go ALL IN working to keep the masses sedated and as docile as possible in the face of the decline of Western Civilization, that is to say the failure of leadership.
 
JacksinPA said:
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/409183-the-looming-border-clash-over-canadian-marijuana

Canada’s national legalization of marijuana has put it at odds with the United States where, despite growing state-level legalization, marijuana remains strictly illegal at the federal level. It was inevitable that the different approaches to marijuana would create friction between the two countries. It appears increasingly likely that this friction will be felt most acutely at the border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed recently that Canada’s legalization of marijuana will not affect how the drug is viewed and treated at the border. Rather, senior CBP officials caution that the full panoply of potential legal consequences — criminal, immigration, and otherwise — remain on the table for those who are caught crossing with Canadian marijuana at the border.
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Our border with Canada remains relatively porous, especially with regards to hardy souls who backpack 'bud' into the U.S. from BC to rural locations like northern ID.
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Porous is right. Town I grew up in has a street called 0 Avenue. There's a ditch beside the road, three strands of barbed wire, another ditch and then you're standing in an American neighbourhood. In a lot of places there's no wire, just those aluminum mini-obelisks that mark the border. There's rural roads that cross the border with no border control. Was back when I used to camp at Chilliwack Lake, anyway. A gravel road that crossed the border. Not sure where it came out on the American side but I bet it was patrolled and you'd have to do some fast talking if you were caught on it.
But legalization (which falls short of 'legalization') won't increase traffic or consumption. Anyone who wants to use pot or traffic in it does already.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
This can change rapidly, and likely will. Governments will go ALL IN working to keep the masses sedated and as docile as possible in the face of the decline of Western Civilization, that is to say the failure of leadership.
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Wow. If I spent a week just reading your posts I might go hang myself in the barn.
 
Grand Mal said:
Wow. If I spent a week just reading your posts I might go hang myself in the barn.
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Collapses tend to do that....

Hey By The Way it is so nice to see Canada produce some intellectual vigor in the form of one Jordan Peterson,,,,who sounds a lot like me,,,,as do others.....I am not alone and I know it.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Collapses tend to do that....

Hey By The Way it is so nice to see Canada produce some intellectual vigor in the form of one Jordan Peterson,,,,who sounds a lot like me,,,,as do others.....I am not alone and I know it.
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Had to google him. Yeah, Canada produces some artists and thinkers who look like they're a half-step sideways. Easily ignored, mostly, by what's called 'mainstream' but entertaining to others who also are a half-step sideways.
 
Grand Mal said:
Wow. If I spent a week just reading your posts I might go hang myself in the barn.
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The truth often causes that reaction in some humans. My theory is that is why cognitive dissonance is so prevalent--it's a defense mechanism.

Not to worry on this pot thing though. The federal government will greatly expand its anti-drug enforcement bureaucracies. The tax payers will be grateful.
 
Thoreau72 said:
The truth often causes that reaction in some humans. My theory is that is why cognitive dissonance is so prevalent--it's a defense mechanism.

Not to worry on this pot thing though. The federal government will greatly expand its anti-drug enforcement bureaucracies. The tax payers will be grateful.
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Cognitive dissonance? Not believing that the government wants to keep me sedated and docile means I have cognitive dissonance?
Nah, you don't think that. You just wanted to get a shot in and don't care if it makes any sense.
 
Grand Mal said:
Cognitive dissonance? Not believing that the government wants to keep me sedated and docile means I have cognitive dissonance?
Nah, you don't think that. You just wanted to get a shot in and don't care if it makes any sense.
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No, REFUSAL to understand that the government wants to keep the public perception within certain boundaries. Refusing, by way of wearing binders and avoiding certain facts, to understand that the government is controlled by special interests is the point. Keeping one's eyes and ears covered, and one's lips sealed is the point.
 
JacksinPA said:
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/409183-the-looming-border-clash-over-canadian-marijuana

Canada’s national legalization of marijuana has put it at odds with the United States where, despite growing state-level legalization, marijuana remains strictly illegal at the federal level. It was inevitable that the different approaches to marijuana would create friction between the two countries. It appears increasingly likely that this friction will be felt most acutely at the border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed recently that Canada’s legalization of marijuana will not affect how the drug is viewed and treated at the border. Rather, senior CBP officials caution that the full panoply of potential legal consequences — criminal, immigration, and otherwise — remain on the table for those who are caught crossing with Canadian marijuana at the border.
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Our border with Canada remains relatively porous, especially with regards to hardy souls who backpack 'bud' into the U.S. from BC to rural locations like northern ID.
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Spending matters, right wingers; why can we afford a drug war?
 
Thoreau72 said:
No, REFUSAL to understand that the government wants to keep the public perception within certain boundaries. Refusing, by way of wearing binders and avoiding certain facts, to understand that the government is controlled by special interests is the point. Keeping one's eyes and ears covered, and one's lips sealed is the point.
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That's not anywhere close to what I replied to though. I replied to someone who said the government wanted me sedate and docile, referring to drugs.
I'd say there was cognitive dissonance at work here alright, but there's nothing dissonant about my cognition.
 
Grand Mal said:
That's not anywhere close to what I replied to though. I replied to someone who said the government wanted me sedate and docile, referring to drugs.
I'd say there was cognitive dissonance at work here alright, but there's nothing dissonant about my cognition.
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I think maybe we agree that "sedate and docile" can be achieved in more ways than one.

Yes, drugs can achieve that, and so can various mind control techniques. Suppressing certain facts and emphasizing other facts (which are not always facts) can give the same result--an oblivious, misinformed, sedate and docile citizenry.
 
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