AWADH

Interim Decision #2519 MATTER OF AWADH In Deportation Proceedings A-81145551 Decided by Board August 23, 1976 (1) Respondent was convicted, on a guilty plea, of possession of marijuana in violation of section 3(1) of the Canadian Narcotic Control Act, R.S.C. 1970, c. N-1 and is thus amendable to deportation under section 241(a)(11) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Case law interpreting the Canadian Narcotic Control Act indicates that scienter or, guilty knowledge is required for conviction. Thus the Canadian statute is distinguish- able from the British statute which is similarly…