On 2/8/06, Peter Mackay
<peter.mackay(a)bigpond.com> wrote:
And isn't it legal to smoke dope in the US
under some circumstances?
That's very much in dispute right now. Federal law says that smoking
weed is always illegal, while some state laws sat that there are times
when it's legal. Court decisions have gone both directions, and some
police departments have stated that they will not enforce the federal
law on the subject.
Strictly speaking the Canadian law is that it's illegal to possess weed;
it's not illegal to smoke it. Of course it's difficult to smoke weed
that you don't have in your possession. If it's legal in the country
where the act would be performed it's not illegal to advocate it.
There is a large part of the world's people who seriously resent the
extraterritorial application of US law. US copyright law can be applied
because it's not extraterritorial.
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