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Sir/ma'am, I read everything you sent. I've also read the whole INA because I am a person with a very active social life. I freely concede that if people really are being barred merely for admitting having used drugs but not of having actually, in the fullness of judicial process, violated a controlled substance law prevailing in the jurisdiction where and when the offense occurred, then CBP is not doing things properly. I will also grant that the blanket ineligibility for even titchy drug offenses is objectively bonkers, especially in light of the fact that shooting someone might not warrant an ineligibility if you're able to creatively plead down the charge. The law should change! Don't wait for me to argue that it's *good* for anyone to be focusing resources on nabbing old hippies, because it ain't.

However, what I've been saying all along is that CBP, for all its faults, generally (though not invariably) does do things properly, and it is less likely that they just chucked the law out the window than it is that the aggrieved travelers are, probably unintentionally, omitting small but key elements of their encounters from what they're telling reporters--such as their minimal but not nonexistent arrest histories. CBP definitely gets it wrong sometimes, and may well have done so with the cases in question, but that's not evidence of systematic persecution: seeing as how nearly half of Canadians admitted to having used marijuana at least once as of this time last year (just after it was legalized--https://www.statista.com/statistics/587689/marijuana-consumption-canada/), if CBP is casting a dragnet to catch everyone who's ever toked up, they're not pulling it very snug. Sometimes an inadmissible person will just fall in their laps, but good gravy, if they were really this scattershot about it, even the teetotalers would never get in because they'd die of old age in the border queue.

And to answer your first question: personally, never touched the stuff, but I really don't care if anyone else does.