So, I take it China is a bad place to smuggle in drugs:
A Nigerian man charged with drug trafficking in Dongguan was found guilty and sentenced to death yesterday, reports today’s Dongguan Times.
Both Osonwa Okey Noberts and his girlfriend, Zhang Dongxiang, received the death penalty for selling heroin to Chinese drug dealers, who were also on trial yesterday. According to China’s criminal law, trafficking of more than 50 grams of heroin can receive death penalty; police established that Noberts and Zhang had sold 5,978.1 grams and 5,091.1 grams, respectively.
Wonder what the Chinese do to English teachers who mail themselves pot.
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Englishmen coming to China to sell Heroin. Something sounds familiar about that.
“Wonder what the Chinese do to English teachers who mail themselves pot.”
According to what I read, they’ll deport them. The Chinese government apparently knows the difference between pot and opium.
They will received death sentence from Chinese court.
I never thought Korea was a hardass about drugs. I mean, I sometimes participated in massive consumption of drugs while I was there. Fortunately, my drug of choice at the time was alcohol, and not only was drug taking allowed, it was even encouraged in many social circles. Drink those drugs, boys and girls! We’re going to have some fun tonight!
Um… Korea has the death penalty for smuggling/trafficking drugs as well.
Read 18 USC Sec. 3591 and 21 USC Sec. 848. The U.S. federal government has the death penalty for trafficking in large amounts of drugs too.
Beats paying for long prison terms.
Which SE country also sentences people to death for drugs. Is it Indonesia? Singapore? I remember in college learning of some Australians being found guilty of smuggling drugs and they were put on the chop block.
Why do so many people refuse to modernize their views on entertainment substances? Some people can drink like fish and live longer than teatotalers. Why not do some research and make “illicit” drugs safer? The demand/usage is already there, despite the neanderthal “legal” views. Besides, if entertainment substances were more readily available, the masses would be even more mollified and less likely to wake up from their apathetic stupor and ask difficult questions of the elite. Win-win all around.
Singapore is the most famous example. Malaysia has similar laws. Just go to wikipedia and check for Capital Punishment in Singapore.
Note that execution is mandatory for possession above a certain weight, because large quantities are (prima facie?) evidence of intent to traffic. Possession doesn’t even have to be on one’s person. Having the keys to an apartment where drugs are found is considered possession, for instance. The government has also stopped releasing stats on its executions. When I lived there in 95 I think they were averaging about 35 a year, a large number of them being foreigners, mostly from other ASEAN countries.
“Englishmen coming to China to sell Heroin. Something sounds familiar about that.”
Except that nigerians aren’t normally classed as englishmen!
Apparently there is a deep sense of shame attached to drugs as opposed to alcohol because alcohol can be justified as something culturally refined related to artistic sensibilities and one can tacitly ignore the inebriating effects. But with moonshine and drugs, the high is right out front and the fiction of cultural refinement is out the window.
The same sense of shame has generally been associated with any pursuit that makes people feel good in a sensual way – sex, tobacco, desert, video games, pop music and dancing. Conversely, those things that are hard to bear are often elevated to exhaulted status – such as abstinence, arduous work, martyrdom and classical music.
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