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Brit jailed four years in Dubai for cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar (profiling?)
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| 2/8/08
Posted on 02/08/2008 6:29:59 PM PST by llevrok
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Not that his Jamaican wardrobe has any bearing but.......
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:30:02 PM PST
by
llevrok
To: llevrok
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:31:50 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: llevrok
As I have heard, 1/10,000 of an ounce is sufficient for conviction in the US.
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:35:21 PM PST
by
Citizen Tom Paine
(Swift as the wind; Calmly majestic as a forest; Steady as the mountains.)
To: Graybeard58
Pot should be legal. Flame me.
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:35:34 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: llevrok
“A father-of-three who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes...”
Simple solution-don’t step on your stash (or stay the hell out of the middle east.)
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:36:45 PM PST
by
gate2wire
(Even when you know, you never know.)
To: llevrok
Since we have drugs and Arab countries in the same topic here, the random factoid of the day is that the slang word for pot "hasheesh" is taken from the Arabic word for grass (another slang for marijuana), which is hashish.
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:37:14 PM PST
by
G8 Diplomat
(Currently learning Farsi so someday you won't have to)
To: llevrok
Wait until the DEA hears about this. No way are these Dubai chumps going to outdo them. I hear cocaine has contaminated most dollar bills. Now they can imprison the entire nation because they have a twenty in their wallet.
Then they can say they won the drug war (Oh wait, you can get drugs in prison, too).
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:38:18 PM PST
by
microgood
To: llevrok
Energy independence now. These folks have gotten enough of our money.
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:38:31 PM PST
by
mysterio
To: llevrok
A former coworker of mine got sent to prison in Dubai for two joints. He got about five years, if I recollect right. The idiot carried it with him off the plane and into the airport.
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:39:01 PM PST
by
squidly
To: llevrok
The American Drug Warriors are envious of Dubai.
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:42:56 PM PST
by
trumandogz
("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
To: SpaceBar
Pot should be legal. Flame me. No interest whatsoever in either pot or "flaming you".
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:43:30 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: G8 Diplomat
Au contraire. “Hashish was derived from a word meaning “assasin “
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:44:38 PM PST
by
kallisti
(it's not that he's arrogant, it's just everyone else is insignificant)
To: llevrok
It is crazy crap like this that keeps me home on the ranch. I’d like to see more of the US long before I’d want to go anywhere else.
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:45:50 PM PST
by
King_Corey
(A King is Sovereign of his life and not a slave)
To: kallisti
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:49:14 PM PST
by
G8 Diplomat
(Currently learning Farsi so someday you won't have to)
To: SpaceBar
Flame me. No thank you. I'm not into that sort of thing, not that there's anything wrong with it...
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:50:52 PM PST
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Citizen Tom Paine
At least a ticket - it’s a government revenue generator.
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:54:07 PM PST
by
edcoil
(Go Great in 08 ... Slide into 09)
To: SpaceBar
“Flame me”
Everyone needs a good flame once in a while - do you need it to light your joint?
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:55:35 PM PST
by
edcoil
(Go Great in 08 ... Slide into 09)
To: edcoil
FreeRepublic is one of the few places one could state a politically incorrect viewpoint and not be crucified. Taken to task perhaps but not crucified. I like that.
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posted on
02/08/2008 6:58:58 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: llevrok
"A search by customs officials uncovered a speck of cannabis weighing just 0.003g..."If it's that sh*t they're growing indoors in British Colombia, that's enough to get the whole dorm wasted.
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posted on
02/08/2008 7:01:25 PM PST
by
billorites
(Freepo ergo sum)
To: kallisti
And may I note an ‘au contraire’ to you as well, sir.
I am certain that the word ‘assassin’ was derived from the word ‘hashish’ as in ‘hashishin” or user of hashish.
The substance was given to young warriors to give them a taste of the afterlife to encourage them in later battles.
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