Reefer madness

Note to self: stay out of the United Arab Emirates.

A father-of-three who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes has been sentenced to four years in a Dubai prison.

Keith Brown, a council youth development officer, was travelling through the United Arab Emirates on his way back to England when he was stopped as he walked through Dubai’s main airport.

A search by customs officials uncovered a speck of cannabis weighing just 0.003g - so small it would be invisible to the naked eye and weighing less than a grain of sugar - on the tread of one of his shoes.

Planting evidence is much simpler when a microscopic amount suffices.

Posted on April 15th, 2008 by pwyll
Filed under: General

2 Responses to “Reefer madness”

  1. Paco Malo, on April 16th, 2008 at 8:35 am Said:

    Yea, and “life for a seed” in Texas.
    – John Belushi, SNL

  2. cardcarryinglibertar, on April 16th, 2008 at 1:09 pm Said:

    I wonder just how far behind the US is to doing this same thing.

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