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People who admit to using controlled substances at any time in their lives can be refused admission to the United States.

Now, does the Z visa supercede the controlled substances rules or not? I just bet there's a dope killer clause in the legislative proposal that lets the dopers in.

Just did my own search of the legislation. The words of the proposed statute focus on those who have VIOLATED US LAW involving narcotics.

That's much different than USING narcotics (which would violate US LAW).

Went through the whole bill where it could say "controlled", or "substance" or "narcotic" or "narcotics", and it's pretty consistent in taking this new track.

Basically current law keeps you out if you've ever used unlawful narcotics, and that applies even if those narcotics are legal elsewhere.

This new law is going to require that you "violate" US laws ~ and that presupposes some sort of arrest and conviction.

Interesting that some law drafting clerk over at the Senate saw fit to disarm the provisions against letting in more dopers.

We do, after all, have all the dopers we can handle and I daresay not a single member of the Senate could stand there straight faced and tell anybody we needed more of them ~ but there you have it ~ seems the US Senators who served on that "compromise committee" want more dopers let into the US on a permanent basis.

Wasn't John McCain's wife a doper? How about Kennedy's wife?

Well there you have it again ~ members of the Senate taking care of their own.

Brian Bilbray said on Dobbs last night that any bill with a “Z” Visa in it needs to be torpedoed pronto. There are no actual caps on the number of people that can apply for the Z visas. Secondly, the draft of the legislation actually removes the criminal penalties ( jail time) for illegal entry into the country. It replaces them with Civil fines of 50 to 500 dollars depending on the number of times the person has illegally crossed the border.