Drum and Bass Dj Grooverider sentenced to 4 years in Dubai

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British DJ jailed for four years for possession of marijuana

By Bassam Zaza, Senior Reporter
Published: February 19, 2008, 09:28

Dubai: A well-known British DJ has been jailed for four years for illegally bringing in and possessing marijuana.

The 40-year-old disc jockey was sentenced by the Dubai Court of First Instance and would be deported after serving his sentence.

The DJ, who had traveled to Dubai to play a set, had previously told the court he did not know the drugs were in his possession and that he had no intention of bringing it to Dubai.

He was arrested at Dubai Airport on November 23, 2007, when a small transparent sack containing 2.16 grams of marijuana was found in his luggage.
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this is insane for 2grams only... ****** up country
 
They have hard drug laws (along with hard laws on other things). They have almost no drug problem within the country at all.

Problem?
 
sure they have no problem with drugs considering all the drug user in their country lives in a jail :o
 
the penalty is harsh, dont do the crime if your not wiling to do the time and all that.

its his fault, you need to be careful going to different countries, they are called other countries for a reason, they are different!
 
lol This place makes me laugh, we moan when foreign people want to change our laws to suit them, we moan that we aren't tough enough on crime in the UK but then we complain when a foreign country's laws are harsher than ours. Oh, but only when it affects someone British.
 
there was a similar thread recently about a guy who'd "stepped" in some weed and is being sentenced, too. It sucks, but then they have harsh drug laws. I feel sorry for the guy, but he had a baggy with some weed in, that's a little more suspicious-looking than stepping in it!!

edit: it's worth noting that most opinions in this thread are what I expressed in the last thread, and got a big shout-down for it!! :/
 
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fini said:
They have almost no drug problem within the country at all.
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This is incredibly hard to prove, when the use of drugs is pushed so far underground that it's almost impossible to trace.

fini said:
Problem?
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Problem being the fact that the punishment is massively disproportionate to the crime, although they've been much worse in the past:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?in_article_id=97963&in_page_id=64

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...sts-warned-over-tough-drug-stance-779910.html

etc.
 
Sic said:
there was a similar thread recently about a guy who'd "stepped" in some weed and is being sentenced, too. It sucks, but then they have harsh drug laws. I feel sorry for the guy, but he had a baggy with some weed in, that's a little more suspicious-looking than stepping in it!!
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That was slightly different in that the guy who stepped on it was imprisoned for having less than 0.003 grams of it stuck to his shoe. An amount so small you needed a microscope to see it.

Hell you probably get more that much stuck to your shoe walking around most UK airports.
 
Moredhel said:
That was slightly different in that the guy who stepped on it was imprisoned for having less than 0.003 grams of it. An amount so small you needed a microscope to see it.
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isn't that what I just said? "It looks more suspicious having a baggy then stepping in it". Or are you making a point that I've missed, or is so obvious that I took it as a given?
 
Wicksta said:
lol This place makes me laugh, we moan when foreign people want to change our laws to suit them, we moan that we aren't tough enough on crime in the UK but then we complain when a foreign country's laws are harsher than ours. Oh, but only when it affects someone British.
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No sympathy for this guy. He was foolish enough to bring drugs into the UAE accidentally or not he broke the law of that land and has been punished appropriately. This is different to the guy who had traces of weed on his shoes - that's where UAE law becomes unreasonable imo.
 
scorza said:
No sympathy for this guy. He was foolish enough to bring drugs into the UAE accidentally or not he broke the law of that land and has been punished appropriately. This is different to the guy who had traces of weed on his shoes - that's where UAE law becomes unreasonable imo.
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pah "punished appropriately" get real, you saying he honestly deserves to have those 4 years of his life taken away for that crime, it madness, just because it's a different country doesn't make it right, next your me telling be that it's fine that gays get stoned to death in Iraq, oh but wait thats different isn't it :rolleyes:, this place is full of hypocrites.
 
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isn't that what I just said? "It looks more suspicious having a baggy then stepping in it". Or are you making a point that I've missed, or is so obvious that I took it as a given?
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No, I'm just agreeing with you, could have worded it better.
 
lowrider007 said:
pah "punished appropriately" get real, you saying he honestly deserves to have those 4 years of his life taken away for that crime, it madness, just because it's a different country doesn't make it right, next your me telling be that it's fine that gays get stoned to death in Iraq, oh but wait thats different isn't it :rolleyes:, this place is full of hypocrites.
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well knowing that it illegal to take drugs there and it's punished by such long sentences, then it's pretty much your own fault if you choose to do it, it's completely different to being stoned to death for being gay.
 
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