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International American citizen faces years of prison time in Dubai after smoking pot in the USA

HereticBD said:
Oh', does the free thinking Liberal(that's you) want to bomb the shit out of them for not having Western values? Hmm...seems like you're not so open minded and accepting of other cultures after all...
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Correct. I'm not one of the tolerant liberals. If they want to act like savages, then we should treat them as such.
 
If he's being honest and didn't actually smoke while in country then that's absolutely outrageous. However, that's the risk you take when traveling to these authoritarian societies. Accepting that is part of the package that is the UAE. Man's only hope is to either wire funds to the Dubai police chief or pray that the US State Dept gives a shit about him.
 
whose fault is it that cannabis is illegal basically worldwide? oh yah, USA.

now USA starting to loosen its stance on cannabis, but the rest of the world is like “hold up, you guys told us weed is bad.”

Cannabis prohibition should have never been implemented in USA in the first place , nor allowed to spread worldwide via the United Nations. I guess we reap what we sow.
 
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That sucks, kind of weird they ran a drug test off his urine but maybe that is what they do to find solutions to his medical problems.... Dubai is a party city such double standards... but that is the law
 
I would never get busted there. move never smoked but more importantly I’d never set foot there.
it’s like going to south Africa back in the day. You think your rules and even rule of law will exist there? Play stupid games
 
Nothing wrong with a country choosing what's morally right for their country and their culture, not that I agree with with this law. It sounds ridiculous for a positive test to count as possession but these are things you should be aware of before travelling to another country. It's your responsibility as a traveler to understand the customs of the culture you are visiting. I think UAE will let this slide because it does hurt them politically to punish an American citizen so strictly for something so benign.
 
thehighking said:
Nothing wrong with a country choosing what's morally right for their country and their culture, not that I agree with with this law. It sounds ridiculous for a positive test to count as possession but these are things you should be aware of before travelling to another country. It's your responsibility as a traveler to understand the customs of the culture you are visiting. I think UAE will let this slide because it does hurt them politically to punish an American citizen so strictly for something so benign.
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People are super irresponsible about not being prepared. I read a blog about a girl that climbed Fuji about 11 years ago. She went there in shirts and a tshirt. It’s 12,000 feet high. Even in summer it gets below freezing. She had to beg a borrow clothes on the way up because she was too childish to do any research or prepare. With google you should be able to understand that the law is such and they do or don’t enforce it and sometimes for no reason they enforce strictly. Law is dumb. But the run is dumb for trusting them
 
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