Good point. Don't get me wrong, I'm probably one of the few people here who has never smoked weed. But I still find it strange that the feds won't prosecute you for smoking weed in New York, but they will deny you entry? Or if you've done it in a country where it is completely legal.
The story was that he denied using drugs on the forms, then they checked his phone and found a photo of him doing it in New York.
I'm annoyed by such things, because countries often ask me if I've ever been convicted of a crime, and in Europe you can be convicted for criticizing 'refugees'.
No, but people could potentially be. So when you say 'yes', they don't know if you committed rape/murder, or if you posted a comment that the government didn't like.
Id love to see the border guards going through the thousands of cat and dog photos on my phone. It's probably 1 3rd that, 1 3rd jew memes and a 3rd work related photos.
Yeah, my phone is completely a-OK (I don't even log in to this site on my phone), but I still don't like them going through it.
Some other guy was denied entry into the US because he used weed in New York, where it was legal.
It's not federally legal anywhere in the US. That New York decriminalized it at the state level means fuck all about border enforcement.
Good point. Don't get me wrong, I'm probably one of the few people here who has never smoked weed. But I still find it strange that the feds won't prosecute you for smoking weed in New York, but they will deny you entry? Or if you've done it in a country where it is completely legal.
It's all about jurisdiction. And despite the Civil War some remnants of States Rights still persist.
But yeah it is odd.
The story was that he denied using drugs on the forms, then they checked his phone and found a photo of him doing it in New York.
I'm annoyed by such things, because countries often ask me if I've ever been convicted of a crime, and in Europe you can be convicted for criticizing 'refugees'.
No, but people could potentially be. So when you say 'yes', they don't know if you committed rape/murder, or if you posted a comment that the government didn't like.
Yeah, my phone is completely a-OK (I don't even log in to this site on my phone), but I still don't like them going through it.