Andrew Feldmar is a popular psycgotherapist who resides in Vancouver, Canada, and frequently visits friends in nearby Seattle- or, at least, he used to. While making a routine crossing, Feldmar was pulled aside for extra screening, which is carried out randomly at border crossings. While Feldmar's car was examined, border guards chatted him up, and on learning he was a pychologist, googled his name, and found a copy of a journal article Feldmar had written, entitled Entheogens and Psychotherapy, detailing his use of hallucinogenic drugs and their usefulness in psychotherapy. Feldmar soon found himself detained, fingerprinted by the FBI, and denied entry to the United States for "narcotic use." Because of the nature of his research, Feldmar is now banned from visiting his friends and family, and must pay a $3500 fee to aplly for a waiver any time he wishes to do so- a waiver which may not be granted. As the Tyee reports, drug policy advocate Ethan Nadlemann points out the ridiculous irony of the ban:

"Nobel Peace prize winners, some of the great scientists and writers in the world have experimented with LSD in their time. We know people are being pulled out of lines and racially profiled as part of the war against terrorism. But this is a different kind of travesty, banning someone because they used a substance in another country thirty years ago"

In all, this is an excellent article and deserves a read, as does Feldman's journal article.