Seen tequila with plant/root infusion before but never something like that heh.
British woman jailed in Egypt for 3 years for bringing in painkillers
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Seen tequila with plant/root infusion before but never something like that heh.
Sure it is.
"oh you have some weed in your bag sir, well that's Egypts problem"
Not really how it works.
Despatched from Italy.
She may well have had a prescription for them over here so therefore totally legal and not our problem.
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Read the article, they weren't prescribed to her, but given to her by a friend
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A friend from the UK or a 'friend' from Egypt?
She didn't. She had a class C on her..its absolutely our problem.
Well I take that back then. Looks like the media are being very kind to her here. So not only did she illegally have a controlled substance here in the UK but a substantial quantity of it as well. Lucky she’s a fairly attractive women I guess.
I didn't see that, then she's done pretty well out of the whole thing to be honest!
My wife's been on tramadol before, it's pretty heavily controlled here. When I originally read about this woman my first thought was '300 tramadol is a lot' so she is either incredibly naive or not as innocent as portrayed.
Lucky she only got three years really.
Lucky she only got three years really.
Well, I found a photo for you.
Looking at that...I didn't want to risk it.
LOL understandable to be fair - it is rather blatant! You'd potentially have had some fuss still if stopped even if perfectly legal.
You can buy that same brand in Tesco over there too btw...
main reason you don't see it in the UK is it breaches the Portman Group's code relating to marketing alcohol by associating with drugs, actually possessing it shouldn't be an issue
Why read/comment in them if you don't like them? No one is forcing you to read them and plenty of other people are discussing the topic.
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The law to trafficking is not so much of the substance but also the intent. If I were to smuggle 1kg of cocaine into the country and it turned out to be baking soda upon testing, the fact that I thought it was illegal thinking it was cocaine, it makes my action illegal and the attempt to smuggle whatever illegal substance still stands.
I could say "I thought it was parsley" defence but I doubt that will stick.
You could also say it contains no THC and that would stick. Rather dubious you'd be charged in this case when you bought it legally in an airport on the way home from another country where selling actual cannabis is illegal without a prescription, there are plenty of cannabis branded products containing hemp etc.. sold in the UK just not alcohol related due to the code of practice mentioned earlier
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But that is the same debate, legal in one country is not necessary legal in the other.
At that point at the airport I did not know the legality of cannabis in Czech Republic, nor is it relevant. From the bottle to me I can see it say Cannabis, and I know it is illegal in the UK so then the intention would be the intention to bring in an illegal substance into the UK. The fact that something else for sale on Amazon is irrelevant.
That's what it essentially comes down to.