Man imprisoned in Dubai for .003g of weed on his shoe

[kaiser soze]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=512815&in_page_id=1770

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.

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

Fucking unbelievable, an amount so minuscule a mouse couldn't get high off of it. I don't condone drug use in any form, but drug residue (both illicit and legal) is everywhere. On money, in public laundry rooms, bathrooms, on computer keyboards in school, on the floor, everywhere! By the looks of the article Dubai officials aren't taking any chances...including charging people for having Melatonin which is sold over the counter in Dubai.

[abcdefz]

SERVES 'EM RIGHT

[ThatGuy]

That's fucked up...by the way http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=85500

[ThatGuy]

But seriously, what the fuck?

[beastiegirrl101]

Anyone see Return to Paradise?

[mikizee]

^ Great film. Thats where I first discovered how good an actor Joaquin Phoenix is.

[jackrock]

holy shit, people still read the Daily Mail?

[JohnnyChavello]

East / West by Paul Bowles:

"Cannabis sativa and its derivatives are strictly prohibited in Turkey, and the natural correlative of this prescription is that alcohol, far from being frowned upon as it is in other Moslem lands, is freely drunk; being a government monopoly it can be bought at any cigarette counter.

This fact is no mere detail; it is of primary social importance, since the psychologlical effects of the two substances are diametrically opposed to each other. Alcohol blurs the personality by loosening inhibitions. The drinker feels, temporarily at least, a sense of participation.

Cannabis abolishes no inhibitions; on the contrary, it reinforces them, pushes the individual further back into the recesses of his own isolated personality, pledging him to contemplation and inaction.

It is to be expected that there should be a close relationship between the culture of a given society and the means used by its members to achieve release and euphoria. For Judaism and Christianity the means has always been alcohol; for Islam it has been hashish. The first is dynamic in its effects, the other static.

If a nation wishes, however mistakenly, to Westernize itself, first let it give up hashish. The rest will follow, more or less as a matter of course. Conversely, in a Western country, if a whole segment of the population desires, for reasons of protest, to isolate itself in a radical fashion from the society around it, the quickest and surest way is for it to replace alcohol with cannabis."