Originally Posted by
maninblack
No one is getting a lifetime ban for smoking MJ 20 years ago. Read these articles with speculation that there's more to the story.
Yup! My airport sends people home frequently for prior drug use. It's usually because they didn't disclose that on their ESTA/visa app.
The ESTA and visa application process questions related to drug use were to be about illegal drug possession/use/distribution and about being an addict/abuser, so as to frustrate law violators and addicts from being lawfully admitted and present in the US.
If the person used such drug in a way that wasn’t illegal and wasn’t a drug addict or other abuser of the law in the relevant jurisdiction(s) of drug possession/use/distribution, then the drug use shouldn’t be an issue for those seeking admission to the US since it’s not unlawful use in the jurisdiction(s) of relevance where the drug is a controlled or uncontrolled substance.
It sounds like you’re talking mostly about foreign visitors who verbally admitted to violating laws (somewhere) related to drugs when not having marked the forms so as to declare drug addict/abuser/criminal history. Inconsistency isn’t anyone’s friend in these circumstances.
A person who legally uses marijuana as prescribed by a doctor for trials in Denmark and isn’t a drug addict is admissible to the US even as marijuana is generally not legal in Denmark.