Brit jailed four years in Dubai for cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar (profiling?)

This is London.co.uk ^ | 2/8/08

[llevrok]

Not that his Jamaican wardrobe has any bearing but.......

[Graybeard58]

Off with his head!

[Citizen Tom Paine]

As I have heard, 1/10,000 of an ounce is sufficient for conviction in the US.

[SpaceBar]

Pot should be legal. Flame me.

[gate2wire]

“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.)

[G8 Diplomat]

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.

[microgood]

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).

[mysterio]

Energy independence now. These folks have gotten enough of our money.

[squidly]

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.

[trumandogz]

The American Drug Warriors are envious of Dubai.

[Graybeard58]

Pot should be legal. Flame me.

No interest whatsoever in either pot or "flaming you".

[kallisti]

Au contraire. “Hashish was derived from a word meaning “assasin “

[King_Corey]

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.

[G8 Diplomat]

Nope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashish

[Grizzled Bear]

Flame me.

No thank you. I'm not into that sort of thing, not that there's anything wrong with it...

[edcoil]

At least a ticket - it’s a government revenue generator.

[edcoil]

“Flame me”

Everyone needs a good flame once in a while - do you need it to light your joint?

[SpaceBar]

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.

[billorites]

"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.

[John Valentine]

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.