Canada looks to end US travel ban for residents who admit to marijuana use

Instances of border agents stopping Canadian pot smokers ‘ludicrous’, minister said, as the drug is legal in many US states and is expected to be in Canada

A medical marijuana user smokes a joint on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters

Canada will push the United States to change a border policy that has banned Canadians who admit to having used marijuana from travel to the United States, given Canada’s plans to legalize pot, a government spokesman said on Friday.
The case of a Canadian man barred from US travel because he admitted to having smoked pot …
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