Slightly Stoopid frontman Miles Doughty issued a statement exclusively to CelebStoner about the incident during which the band had a half ounce of pot and some bongs confiscated by border officials and were fined $3,000 en route to Fargo, North Dakota in October 2008.

"We were out on tour for the fall in the U.S. and we also did a couple of Canada shows. But unfortunately for us coming back into the U.S. wasn't a warm welcome. Border patrol agents detained us for seven hours with about seven to eight agents  of wasted taxpayers' manpower. They were threatening us with intent to sell and distribute marijuana even though all they actually found was about a half ounce. And this was after they tore our whole bus apart and then made my guys put everything back together.

"This is just another example of glorified security guards using their power the wrong way. I was talking shit because we're musicians and we smoke marijuana. I don't understand how they could mix that up with drug dealers. I guess they're not fans of music or they'd know that this is what we do.

"It just amazes me that they would waste this much time for marijuana. Maybe if they taxed it like alcohol and cigarettes, things would be easier, but then they wouldn't be able to waste billions of dollars of taxpayers' money on the supposed 'War on Drugs' In this country you can do less time in jail for killing than getting busted with recreational drugs. This country is in dire need of a revolution because it seems like only a chosen few get to make decisions for a society that has passed them by. Remember a little saying: a country for the people, by the people. We've seemed to have lost that.

"I've been smoking weed for 17 years and it's never been a gateway drug or affected my life in a negative way. I will always promote the use of marijuana because I don't see it as something harmful. Alcohol and cigarettes kill people. Who dies from getting blazed? Answer: No one.

"So, after all this we got a $3,000 fine and a welcome back to America. What a joke!!!"

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