Your Legal Pot Buying Data Could Get You Banned From The U.S., Lawyers Warn – National | Globalnews.ca

As laws on marijuana relax on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border, attitudes have hardened at the border itself. When Canadians are able to buy legal recreational marijuana sometime this year, we are going to start generating a lot of consumer data. Some of it will be clearly linked to individuals: credit card purchases at physical stores and online ordering to home addresses, for example. And that could have lasting consequences. Canadians can be barred for life from the United States — even after legalization here — if a border…

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High Court To Hear Border-Beer Case ‘Of Polarizing National Interest’ | CTV Atlantic News

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will take a look at what the fathers of Confederation really meant by a constitutional clause about free trade among provinces in a case that started over some cases of beer and three bottles of liquor. The court agreed Thursday to hear a Crown appeal of a New Brunswick ruling overturning a ban on bringing alcohol across provincial boundaries. As usual, there were no written reasons provided, though the court took the uncommon step of awarding costs to the defendant for the submissions.…

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