Kix

Not even in the slightest bit sensationalist in the Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-cannabis.html

SDDep

Do they have significant drug problems in AD? I'm guessing not..

scrubbedexpat141

**** it, hang him.

Stupid enough to do it in a country where the laws are brutal. Doesn't deserve the potential ability to breed ****tard children who may repeat the stupidity of their father.

mikewot

Now tell us what you really think. Sitting on the fence only means you're going to get splinters in your *rse.

scrubbedexpat141

Yeah, was maybe a bit blunt.

I just think stupidity deserves the punishment.

Sell weed in the UK, you still won't pay tax and you'll get a much lighter sentence. Minimise the risk.

co durham boy

There's a massive drug problem with a lot young male Gulf nationals , weed , resin and the Captagon pills which is just a speed pill .

They make them in Saudi and truck them in by the bucket load , they'll smash the import ring once in a while and put it in the papers .

Oyibopeppeh

Absolutely bang on!

One of our guys spent a week out in that jail in the desert last year for a drinking related matter, he said that the place was chocka with young Emiratis doing a 4 year stretch for weed and dope possession.

scrubbedexpat141

The article stated that another bloke was nicked for smoking it along with an Emirati who was sent to a rehab centre...not jail.

Classic stuff.

Tockalosh

If the naughty British passport holder hadnt imported then tempted and offered the Emirati his evil wares then none of it would have happened so yes the Emirati needs rehab and the British passport holder needs executing

auzdafluff

I think we can all agree, it's a bit of a 'blunt' sentence.

Tockalosh

In a flash, Khallas

captainflack

Yes, and of course the impartiality or reliability of the judicial system is beyond reproach so we can trust 100% any judgement the legal system makes, like this for example

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_418978.html

Perhaps this weed-selling chappy should claim he was drugged too?

The legal system here is f**ked up, and decisions and punishments are arbitrary and based primarily on who you are and who you know, not the evidence or the relative severity of what you did. So please let's not shower praise on it for sentencing some small-fry to death while the well-connected can commit far more serious offences and get the victims banged up instead.

LaLaLayla

Not as such. The main problem those working in rehabilitation come across in AD, is young local lads who become addicted to the pills that they give you to come off 'drugs' (generic).

britexpat76

OJ got off though?!!

weasel decentral

Whatever about the death sentence, but possession of 300 quids worth of weed in any country moves you from the personal consumption category into the intent to supply and distribute category. You'd expect to get a good few years for that.