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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Tory peer could be refused entry to US after cannabis revelation in the Times

Daniel Finkelstein
Lord Finkelstein, who does not drink, smoke or even drink coffee, said he tried the drug only because he knew it was legal. Photograph: Mark Thomas/Shutterstock

A Conservative peer may have damaged his chances of being allowed back into the US after legally smoking cannabis in Colorado, a leading immigration lawyer has said.

Daniel Finkelstein wrote in the Times on Monday of how he smoked marijuana for the first time at a friend’s house in the state, where buying limited quantities of the drug for recreational use has been allowed for almost a decade.

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