Jasmine Mooney is a Canadian actress and sometime entrepreneur.  The thirty-five year-old woman from British Columbia, while born in Canada, has spent the last several years working in the United States, in California to be specific.

Then they arrested her.

They being federal U.S. agents — U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents — as she attempted to renew an expired work visa.

Her previous visa was now invalid since the health beverage she was promoting contained hemp, and that’s verboten in America, where they cling to the notion that cannabis and its derivatives are threat to national security.  This in a nation where you can buy milk, guns, and ammunition at the same store.

Jasmine persevered though, getting another job, this one located as well in the United States, and representing another health beverage of some sort, this one hemp-free.  With optimism at what she considered to be a routine visit, she arrived at U.S. Customs with the job offer and her visa paperwork to get herself a revised and up-to-date visa.  Piece of cake.

No such luck.

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