Let’s say you are a tourist from some country, you visit Canada and smoke some weed which is perfectly legal there. You have a valid visa for the US, and when you enter you disclose you smoked weed last week. You can be denied entry for that.
The US is punishing people for doing things that are perfectly legal where they did them - no laws were broken!
The US is so fixated on drugs this is horribly inconsistent with other laws. If you’re an 18 year old Australian and drink yourself into oblivion every day in Australia (perfectly legal), the US doesn’t care at all when you enter, even though that is illegal on the US.
Or you’re in Germany and drive at 200mph on the autobahn (perfectly legal), the US doesn’t care when you enter, even though that is also illegal in the US.
So it’s like drugs are so bad the US will not tolerate a person doing them, even when they are not in the US! Other “crimes” (according to US law) ? Who cares.
Let’s say you are a tourist from some country, you visit Canada and smoke some weed which is perfectly legal there. You have a valid visa for the US, and when you enter you disclose you smoked weed last week. You can be denied entry for that.
The US is punishing people for doing things that are perfectly legal where they did them - no laws were broken!
The US is so fixated on drugs this is horribly inconsistent with other laws. If you’re an 18 year old Australian and drink yourself into oblivion every day in Australia (perfectly legal), the US doesn’t care at all when you enter, even though that is illegal on the US.
Or you’re in Germany and drive at 200mph on the autobahn (perfectly legal), the US doesn’t care when you enter, even though that is also illegal in the US.
So it’s like drugs are so bad the US will not tolerate a person doing them, even when they are not in the US! Other “crimes” (according to US law) ? Who cares.