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Jul 27, 2021 Canada is opening their border to vaccinated U.S. travelers on August 9, but while cannabis is now legal in New York state and Canada, it’s still illegal to take it between the two locations.
Since Canada legalized cannabis in 2018, Mike Niezgoda with U.S. Customs and Border Protection said there have been a number of smuggling cases.
“We had an incursion that came via helicopter that landed in Grand Island, just north of Buffalo,” he said.
That was in 2019 when Border Patrol agents recovered four duffel bags carrying a total of more than 100 pounds of weed with an estimated street value of more than $100,000.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found more than $6 million worth of marijuana in trucks purporting to have paper shipments in two separate seizures in the Buffalo, New York, area.
Maine border patrol agents deployed to southern border amid migration surge
Maine is sending border patrol agents to assist with the surge of migrants at the U.S. border with Mexico.
Agents from the Houlton Sector are being temporarily deployed to the Southwest Border area of operation, according to Customs and Border Protection. Sign up for our Newsletters
The agency would not provide exact numbers or locations for where the agents are headed.
A spokesman did say however that more than 300 agents will be deployed primarily from Northern and Coastal sectors.
In a statement, a spokesman for the agency said, in part, “CBP seeks to deter and disrupt human smuggling activities by transnational criminal organizations and ensure our personnel are properly equipped to maintain border security,” said Mike Niezgoda, Public Affairs Officer with Customs and Border Protection.