Off with his head!
As I have heard, 1/10,000 of an ounce is sufficient for conviction in the US.
“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.)
Energy independence now. These folks have gotten enough of our money.
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.
The American Drug Warriors are envious of Dubai.
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.
If it's that sh*t they're growing indoors in British Colombia, that's enough to get the whole dorm wasted.
Seems that they are trying to catch up with the civilized world. Several years ago a man here was sentenced to life for having a razor blade in his pocket with a trace of drugs too small to measure. Just keep saying “we are winning the war on drugs” and don’t forget to send tax money for the fight.
Outside of sending everybodies shoes who walks through an airport to a forensics lab, how do you even find that minuscule of an amount?
Briton? He will be released.
About a year or two ago, an Indian designer was caught with a pouch full of marijuana, and other narcotics, in Dubai. He was released; the UAE doesn’t mess with investor countries. The same happened with an American, earlier.
http://www.thecrusade.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=22405
Even if you have a valid prescription for it?
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The FR drug warriors applaud this.
Is the plan for him to actually serve four years, or to attract some sort of payoff to ensure an early release?
Dubai is an interesting place. There are many, many foreigners there. This includes lots of women that go clubbing every night, European women, usually in small groups. They are what I call “kept women”. They are there at the behest of their Arab sugar-daddies, that pay for them to be around when it’s desirable to have a beautiful young woman on their arm. They don’t want to marry them, or live with them, they just want them around. Obviously these men have a lot of money.
That hotel in the picture is supposedly the world’s only six-star hotel. It’s head-and-shoulders above everything else, anywhere. I hear they have a great brunch, and though it costs way over a hundred bucks to visit the hotel for brunch it’s worth it.
The roads are all dusty with a very fine dust from the desert. There are lots of fancy cars and fabulous apartments. The labor force is almost all foreigners. The local men dress in white robes with black headbands; a “Dishdashah”.
http://www.traderscity.com/abcg/pic1.htm
Dubai is a big playground for Europeans — lots of vacationers there from the EU. Lots of clubs, all with alcohol of all kinds. Many clubs are frequented by foreign prostitutes, and alcohol is available in all of them.
Despite all this it doesn’t surprise me that they have such a low tolerance for drugs. The locals are hypocrites of the highest order. They also have a very different view of women, and women tourists should always travel in groups to avoid being assaulted and raped by local men who think their western dress means they are fair game for anything, including kidnapping and rape.
The article does suprise me in the sense that the evidence is so flimsy — makes me think these people were selected for extra screening for some reason — maybe they suspected they were Jewish (no that’s not a joke). The customs there is not any different than most places, at least to the extent I have seen.
Um... weighs less than a gram of sugar? As opposed to weighing less than a gram of something else?
