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Yemen drugs worth over $83M go up in smoke
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| mattW |
http://www.google.com/hostednews/af...0sQ2DQUtWGhTOsw
Yemen drugs worth over $83 mln go up in smoke
2 hours ago
SANAA (AFP) — Yemeni authorities destroyed on Saturday four tonnes of hashish and six million pills of amphetamines with a street value of more than 83 million dollars, incinerating them in a Sanaa field.
The drugs, seized over the past 16 months, were stored for smuggling to Arab countries across the Gulf, especially oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Saeed al-Akel, a representative of the state prosecutor, told reporters.
He described Yemen, an impoverished Arabian peninsula country, as a key transit route for drug trafficking and said the authorities sought regional cooperation to stem the flow of drugs.
Akel said about 75 suspected drug traffickers were tried in connection with the seized drugs and some of them, including foreigners, were handed prison sentences ranging from 25 years to life.
In March, a Yemeni court condemned a Pakistani man to death for drug trafficking and sentenced 14 of his compatriots to 25 years in jail.
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| mar46017 |
Wow!
You would get so high just being in the area! |
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| |Thrax| |
| quote: | Originally posted by mar46017
Wow!
You would get so high just being in the area! |
How do you think they made the decision to burn it all? they were really high... ;) |
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| mar46017 |
I once watched an HBO documentary called Ganja Queen. Poor sister took the rap for her lil brother transporting weed from Australia to Indonesia I think. They burned up the evidence in that case as well after the conviction.
What does the US do w/ seized drugs? (except obviously do em themselves) |
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| Sadface |
| I think burning confiscated drugs is a pretty standard practice everywhere. |
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| Jim Carson |
| quote: | Originally posted by mar46017
I once watched an HBO documentary called Ganja Queen. Poor sister took the rap for her lil brother transporting weed from Australia to Indonesia I think. They burned up the evidence in that case as well after the conviction.
What does the US do w/ seized drugs? (except obviously do em themselves) |
I think they do 'em all. Look at the way the country is run. A guy came into the medical marijuana office today and told me an LAPD cop took his blunt and then smoked it right in front of him and then impounded his car for 30 days. The cop told him he would call him a taxi because they were in a sketchy part of downtown and then he never did. LOL. |
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| alpha.wav |
| they burn $80 million worth, but kept $800 million worth. they burn 10% of it to show people look, its bad, needs to be burned, but they stash the remainder 90%. |
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| Kismet7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by alpha.wav
they burn $80 million worth, but kept $800 million worth. they burn 10% of it to show people look, its bad, needs to be burned, but they stash the remainder 90%. |
How much of it will end up in your system? :p |
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