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U.S. Customs Officials Deny Entry to Canadian Man Who Won Super Bowl Trip Over 30-Year-Old Pot Bust, $50 Fine

Feb. 4, 2013 7:30am Mytheos Holt

Canadian Myles Wilkinson Stopped From Attending Super Bowl Because of 1981 Drug Bust

Myles Wilkinson (Photo: CBC)

The Federal statute of limitations on drug-related crimes is only five years, but for one unfortunate ex-convict, some drug offenses last forever. In fact, some drug offenses can undo a once-in-a-lifeteme award. Yahoo Sports reports:

Myles Wilkinson won a fantasy football contest to attend Super Bowl XLVII, but his dreams of going to the big game went up in smoke because of a 1981 pot bust.[...]

Wilkinson, a Seattle Seahawks fan from Vancouver Island, beat out almost four million other players to win the trip to see the San Francisco 49ers play the Baltimore Ravens. But when he got to the airport on Thursday, U.S. customs agents brought up an arrest the man had when he was 19. They denied him entry to the country and ended any chance of making it down to New Orleans for a memorable weekend.

The Canadian website CBC adds this to the story:

When he got to Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Thursday, U.S. customs agents learned of a marijuana possession conviction in Vancouver in 1981 and told him he was not allowed to enter the country.

“I had two grams of cannabis. I paid a $50 fine,” Wilkinson told CBC news.

Wilkinson said he was 19 when he was busted.

“I can’t believe that this is happening, for something that happened 32 years ago.”

Wilkinson’s denial of entry into the U.S. is a common story, according to Dana Larsen, director of the Sensible B.C. campaign, a group advocating for the decriminalization of marijuana.

“There’s hundreds of thousands of Canadians who have these criminal records for small amounts of cannabis and that results in a lifetime ban for accessing the U.S.”

Do you think it’s fair that Wilkinson was kept out of the United States because of a three decade old drug bust? Weigh in below.

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UNALIEN
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:27am
This is nothing new Canadians know this, sometimes a lawyer can get old minor convictions pardoned but US Customs has sole discretion, you can be denied US entry without any reason…

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- Ditto Head
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:26am
  If he was Mexican they would have offered to give him free Health Care during his stay.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:29am
  Gee,could this work at the southern border?
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:02pm
  If he was an ILLEGAL ALIEN, he would be “in” w/o any checks what-so-ever!!
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 1:58pm
  sure a Canadian that smoked pot 30 years ago can’t enter the US to see the Superbowl, but a pot smoking Marxist can be President .. social justice in postConstitutional America
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:00pm
  well it’s only fair, I was planning a trip to canada a few years ago and found out “just in time” that a dui I had 30 years ago PREVENTS ME FROM ENTERING CANADA! I was upset, annoyed and infuriated that something that I had beaten in court, that wasn’t on my “official” driving record, stopped me from entering their country..
  Yes virginia those things stay on your PERMANENT record FOREVER! One moment of youthful indiscretion served up a learning lesson for those reading this. While it might not be fair and it’s completely asinine, it’s the law! whatcha gonna do?
  
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- ionamerica
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:31pm
  The same thing is happening to me in Atlanta Georgia right now. One agency got me fired from my job because I was accused of marijuana possession 30 years ago. The police department can’t even produce the records and has so far refused to admit they don’t have them, so the record can’t be expunged either. It’s clear that bureaucrats around the country already have more power than they can rationally handle.
  
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- 8644
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 7:13pm
  This guy is a dumbass. Not having traveled to the US in 32 years and winning these TIX, he should have prepared for this. should have cleared it up prior to showing up the last day to travel…
  
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ofass
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:22am
I bet that if he was just a kafiah terrorist with American blood on his hand he was welcome and good to become a respected resident.

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- JQuentinEvermann
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:25am
  If he was a Mexican looking to take the job of an American teenager, he would be given a tax-free ride and free health care…oh, and a “path to citizenship.”
  
  Just more proof that our government has become as inept as we fear it is.
  
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Comeandtakeit
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:19am
I guess President Obama can’t go to Canada, then- oh, wait, he never got busted for doing the same thing. Well, the guy should have converted to being a muslim terrorist real quick; then he could have easily come in.

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BlackCrow
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:12am
Turnabout is fair play! The Canadians have been refusing entry visas and charging exorbitant taxes on Americans with minor pot convictions for the last 25 years at least. I lived in Alaska and knew many who had been busted for pot possession in their High School days who were refused entry into Canada or charged up to 1000 dollars for an “undesirable” transit visa.

Well Bub, go gripe at your own government.

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txswalker
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:01am
Dont do the crime if you dont want the punishment…whata wicked pisser he must be eh?

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RightThinking1
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:57am
No sympathy at all.
Actions have consequences, and those consequences serve as object lessons to others. That is how civil society is maintained.

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maddmell
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:34am
Canadian border agents will not let Americans into that country with a DUI offense, no matter how old the offense is. But they will let you in if you pay the extortion fee.

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- battles
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:56am
  A company I worked for use to send chemical tankers into Canada. We had to make absolutely sure that the driver had no convictions or the truck would be stuck at the border. The Canadians have access to our criminal database.
  
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- AZsparrow
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:46am
  True. A friend of mine was stopped at a Canadian airport for a past DUI and denied entry. Funny thing is they had the wrong guy with the same name, but after they finally cleared that all up, they found my friend had a DUI himself that was ten years older than the one he was first accused of. He was on company business too, which turned into an embarrassing event for him. Nobody at work had asked or brought up the subject prior to arranging his company travel, and it never entered his mind it would be an issue.
  
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- Mahdi Al-Dajjal
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:38pm
  It’s true. Have even the slightest criminal record and the Canadian Border Guards stop you from entering Canada. Those who ARE allowed to enter are questioned about firearm possession. Get caught with a firearm in your car while trying to cross into Canada and its an instant 5 years in a Canadian prison. Now Canadians are complaining about US laws being too tough? Too funny!
  
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- saranda
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:42pm
  @Mahdi – actually it is 4 to 6 months sentence if you lie about having the gun and it is found. If you acknowledge you have one, you are offered the chance to return to the US (if you are at a car border crossing) or give up the gun. Pretty reasonable to me.
  
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- Mahdi Al-Dajjal
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:10pm
  Are you talking from personal experience?
  
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love the kids
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:31am
Again the reporting is a little misguided. I will also tell you as someone who crosses the boarder into Canada on a regular basis, that I have 2 friends that have had a DWI in the past in the US from a long time ago, and Canada will not let them in, even though i’ve never seen people that drink more than Canadians.

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- VetMike
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:48pm
  Maybe they don’t want to share their booze.
  
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- bigdaddyt46
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 8:51am
  lot of drinking going on here. budweiser’s considered a soda.
  
  Jeff Dunham and Walter in toronto
  
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love the kids
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:28am
You just should have flown to mexico and then walked across the boarder. They will let anyone in, then in a couple months, you could have been an American citizen.

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huey6367
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:20am
US Customs – always on the job. I feel safer when they do this sort of thing. That and do body cavity searches on great grandma. yet the President can admit he smoked dope and snorted coke and that isn’t a big deal. Oh the hypocrisy.

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justangry
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:18am
So our Bolshevik despotic regime takes the same hardline position on drugs as the social conservatives. That should tell the social ‘conservatives’ something. Just saying.

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Texan832
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:12am
Wait you stop one dude for smoking weed thirty years ago but cant stop mexicans from crossing the southern border? WTH?

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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:10am
Let’s remind folks of the steps that our Sewer Rat-in-Chief has made to keep us safe:

1. Recall, if you will, that nearly six months ago, the State Department had to erase one of Obama’s Al Qaeda buddies from the “no fly list” due to being a suspected terrorist. He was then able to attend the meeting he had in the White House.

2. Then there’s Mohamed “Fat Boy” Magid, the President of ISNA, one of the unindicted co-conspirators named by federal judge Jorge Solis in the aftermath of the Holy Land Foundation terror trial. “Fat Boy” eats dinner in the White House on a regular basis. Obammie just loves all that sweet Saudi cash that “Fat Boy” brings to the campaign coffers.

3. Were we supplying Al Qaeda and the MB in Syria with weapons recovered in Libya after Gadhafi’s fall? You bet. Retired four star admiral Paul “Ace” Lyons speculates openly that Al Qaeda was in Benghazi on ORDERS to kidnap Ambassador Stevens to be eventually traded for the Blind Sheik. The plan went south when heroes Woods and Doherty ran to the sound of the attack after being ordered to “Stand Down” on three occasions. The trade was supposed to be the Ayatollah Obama’s “October Surprise.”

“Remember Benghazi and ALL the Traitors!”

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AmericanBlankYeah
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:08am
Well, you go get a pot charge or a DUI and try to cross the border to Canada…. they wont let you in either… even with a DUI

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:16am
  Which is kind of funny because some of us used to drive to Canada in our late teens to get drunk and stoned.
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:07am
Thank the Lord they caught him at the border before he could enter our country and cause further damage.
God forbid he start a riot in NewOrleans when they run out of Cheetos..

Hey Myles…. Next time wear a burqa…. they’ll slide you right thru.

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omega309
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 7:59am
If he had wraped a towel around his head and started pitching a fit in farTsi he would have walzed onto the plane.

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jackact
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 7:57am
Are you serious?
And the Canadian fan could have witnessed a potential murderer and steroid abuser play linebacker for the Ravens.
Go figure.

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 7:54am
http://www.a12iggymom.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/u-s-navy-stops-four-mexicans-in-a-row-boat/

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Bret4207
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 7:49am
Canada won’t let an American in who has any arrest record or even a DWI. What’s good for the goose…

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- loriann12
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:00am
  I didn’t know that. I was about to decry how unfair that was, since the US lets in Illegal Mexicans with full criminal records.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:02am
  Yeah, no big deal, it was probably just our favorite poster from the north, Canadiangoosecrap!
  
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DZ-015
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 7:47am
Obama and many of his minions have admitted to doing drugs in the past. Maybe Canada should deny them entry the next time they want to go north, eh?

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Xiccarph
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 7:38am
Learn some spanish, fly to Mexico, walk across the border. You’re home free.
What do you expect from a rule-by-law system that picks and chooses its laws for it’s own agenda, convenience and power?

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Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 7:38am
If Obama’s plan for “immigration reform” is implemented, would an illegal alien be denied a chance at citizenship if he had a similar blemish on his record? I’m betting not.

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Gonzo
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 7:35am
Yet, if you are “American” and admittedly smoked large quantities of pot 30 years ago you can be President.

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NewLife56
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 7:35am
Our society has went nuts it punishes the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

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- freedomcatcher
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:28am
  That best sums it up ! “Ignoramously Stupid” I would call it. I think I just made that up ( doubt it, but who Knows ?) as I can’t personally recall ever hearing that before. Regardless, it seems America is in the throws of a Physchotic episode !
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:30am
  Meanwhile millions of illegal criminal mexicans flood the border. Makes perfect sense to me…
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:15am
  WELCOME BLACK CARTER, Yep, and usually with copious amounts of marijuana strapped to their backs in homemade backpacks. Imagine that, and the Dems want them to all be made legal so they can vote.
  
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- BlackTalonAmmo
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:38am
  Yup. And it is no joke. Our government goes AGAINST the Declaration of Independence which enshrines the reason for the Second Amendment in lightning quick legislation, (or illegal executive orders) yet BOTH parties FAIL to secure the threats at our borders, exposing US to THEM.
  
  It isn’t society. It is our government that we as a society have forgotten that they serve with our CONSENT. I do not consent to this madness.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 7:34am
They deny him entry and yet we have a President who commits treason and murder and others in Congress who have broken laws, not paid taxes for years, and God alone knows what other crimes committed who remain free.

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