She Immigrated Legally. She Married a U.S. Citizen. But She Was Denied Citizenship for Working in Legal Cannabis.

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She Immigrated Legally. She Married a U.S. Citizen. But She Was Denied Citizenship for Working in Legal Cannabis.
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Yeah, I mean, that kind of thing is going to happen when cannabis is Schedule I.

“We didn’t think about the consequences of getting involved, or how the federal law was going to affect us,” Reimers said.

When you want US citizenship, it's a federal level thing. You should maybe think about how federal law is going to affect you. I'm not saying that the laws around cannabis at the federal level are right, but they are the laws that exist.

I wonder if they had an immigration attorney or if they were doing it themselves. And if they had one, I wonder if the attorney was aware of this possible issue.

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