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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by solarwind on Saturday November 10, 2018 @01:45PM (#18422771)
If you are a Canadian citizen who ever used a credit/debit card at a cannabis dispensary (or if you even just invested or worked for a Canadian dispensary), you are now permanently barred from entering the United States. A cashless society is a totalitarian society.
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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by berdario on Saturday November 10, 2018 @03:26PM (#18423307)
Is this for real?

How would the the DHS or another US entity know about payment transactions made on a canadian bank account?

And, I realize that cannabis is not legal at the federal level in the US, but how would lawfully purchasing a cannabis product years ago disqualify you from entering the US?

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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by vetinari on Saturday November 10, 2018 @05:04PM (#18423769)
I don't know about this specific case, but if you used a credit or debit card, it would be processed by Visa or Mastercard, which are both US companies, subject to US laws and regulations. That's how the US entities would know.
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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by Latteland on Saturday November 10, 2018 @05:27PM (#18423860)
It's for real and the idiotic border police in the us have started asking people about it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/smoke-pot-us-border-1.47185...
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Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia by jnurmine on Sunday November 11, 2018 @01:21PM (#18427709)
Sounds more like Canada needs something like Swish which does not share any payment/merchant data with the US.

But isn't there something like that already for Canadians?

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