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I would love a source about the immigration form. That would at least make more sense. Weed is legal in half of the US. As a citizen, I find the story troubling.

The tweets just saying “drug use” and then you hear it’s weed is ridiculous. Why wouldn’t they just state that they lied on their immigration form about drug use?

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Weed is illegal everywhere in the US. The federal government has a policy of, in most cases, not bothering to enforce the law in states that have stopped also making it illegal under their own separate legal codes. However that doesn’t mean it’s actually legal because federal law applies everywhere.

BBC has a video on the story. DHS says it was drug use not the meme.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c5y2l9nn7y1o

Of course the story was fabricated, but we live in a post-truth world. The mistake was believing the story from the beginning; the story was obvious nonsense.

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