Dubai drug laws
The authorities in Dubai have got ever so slightly strict with illegal drugs. Whilst I appreciate that every country has the right to be as harsh as they please; anyone wishing to travel to or through the UAE should note the extremely small amounts of drugs that can land you with a mandatory four year sentence.
Fair Trials International are listing some jaw dropping examples, including people who’ve been jailed for possession amounting to thousandths of a gram.
Since its virtually impossible to walk around any city in Britain without picking up some form of residue its advisable to choose which shoes you take carefully, or holiday elsewhere. I am curious what they make of British banknotes - since virtually all of them have traces of cocaine.
A thousandth of a gram? Surely that is just a trace element? If a drug user rubbed against you somewhere, I’d have thought you could acquire that by accident alone. This seems like silly legislators to me. So, nothing new there.
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp
read the penultimate paragraph.
Hettie i had read that before and that was essentially the point i was making, but thankyou for the link :)
‘A Swiss national currently serving 4 years after 3 poppy seeds were found on his clothes by customs officials at Dubai airport. He had bought and eaten a bread roll at Heathrow before flying to UAE.’
Bloody hell.
Somebody on PP might dislike me saying that the Arabs are draconian. The truth is they are, and it’s not like am saying they are the only ones.
Why would anyone want to take drugs in Dubai anyway? It’s like paradise.
“Why would anyone want to take drugs in Dubai anyway? It’s like paradise.”
To accentuate the ecstasy of shopping in tax free shops?
“Why would anyone want to take drugs in Dubai anyway? It’s like paradise.”
What a fucking stupid, cretinous thing to say. Do you think the guy with cannabis on his shoe was a smoker?
I took him to be asking ‘in general’; calm down.
I fucking hate Dubai,
Once this law has a negative impact on dubai it will be changed, Dubai is all about image - A positive image.
For all the drum & bass fans, Grooverider’s been locked up in Dubai since November for 2.16gms of weed… he’s facing four years. At the end of the day you’ve got to respect the laws of where you’re travelling to but it seems really harsh
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Services/Tourists_oblivious_of_United_Arab_Emirates_drugs_laws_end_up_in_jail_/articleshow/2766106.cms
a shorter link:
http://www.7days.ae/en/2008/01/28/star-dj-admits-charge.html
grooverider is cunt. good riddence, fucking prick
i wish grooverider got ten years. wanker
i just cancelled travel plans to dubai because of this stupidity. im going to thailand instead -
Dubai is a building site, something like 45 percent of the worlds cranes are there. It’s only paradise if you’re into building sites in a big way. It’s run like a medieval European fudal kingdom with a small number of ruling families running everything, which is more than a little backwards. They project this image of perfection, but that’s all it is - an image. Officially there’s no crime but you can buy copy designer goods everywhere and the CIA world fact book describes it as a major trans shipment point for heroin originating in Afganistan. YouTube and Flikr are banned, as is searching for the word privacy on Google. This country is only forward thinking when compared to Saudi and their public executions. Don’t go there or any country in that area if you possibly can!
Who wants to go there anyway. Its certainly not representative of what the Arab world has to offer.
A monument to bad taste populated by Brits who thinks its cooler than Benidorm or Luton Airport. Shav City.
I guess this is what happens when you base your law on a medieval text.
However, 4 years in jail isn’t too bad considering if you’re a woman you would be burried up to your head in sand and have rocks thrown at your head until you’re dead, all for kissing another man of course.
Islamic law is backwards and frightening to anyone who enjoys freedoms such as we do.
This is nothing to do with islamic law, this is to do with stupidity of the dubai goverment, Each official gets 500 Dirhams (or what ever their currency s called) for catching someone with any ounce of drugs on them. Or even if it looks like something they have not seen before, it could even be a chocolate bar, or a sleeping tablet or pain killers. They dont care, even if its a bit of fluff in your trousers, they will get hold of you for the reward they get.
So be AWARE