You get to a point when you realise
that you've used up all your luck.

I've always been law-abiding, except when it comes to drugs. I have the attitude that our drugs laws are complete balls, an outlook that seems increasingly to be shared by people who know what they are talking about - which is why the government then sacks them from being policy advisers. Hey ho, we have a PM and a Merkin President who've both taken coke. But drugs are still bad. So it goes.

Anyway, my main drug has been / is cannabis. I've taken it across numerous borders, and somehow never got busted. Highlights include the large block of the best resin I've ever had, which came back with me from Nepal via the UAE - United Arab Emirates, which a couple of years after I took the resin through sentenced some poor bastard to 4 years inside for a 0.003g spec of cannabis that was stuck to his shoe. I must also be one of the few people to bring cannabis into the Caribbean. Then there are the numerous times I've come back from Amsterdam with baggies of different types of weed.

I've never been busted despite having been smoking for 26 years now. I refuse to be hypocritical and hide what I do; I see no reason why I should. So, I should have been arrested on many occasions, I guess I'm lucky that I haven't been; one day I hope that the stupid laws which ban a natural product that has never killed anyone will be repealed - but I'm not holding my breath on that one.
(TheImmortalJenkins, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 18:13, 10 replies)

If you've been smoking for 26 years,
you've probably not got much breath left to hold.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 18:20, closed)

Tee hee.
What a wheeze.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 9:21, closed)

Refuse to be hypocritical and hide what you do?
Declare it all at customs, do you?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 18:58, closed)

No
but I didn't hide it either. Most of the time it was in my jacket pocket.
(TheImmortalJenkins, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 7:31, closed)

I wouldn't pass judgement on
your smoking habits, but carting the stuff through customs in your pocket is just bloody stupid.

Can't be that hard to track down a bag of weed locally. You'd really risk a prison sentance to avoid having to go out and track it down? Even in the Caribbean, where most places you can't move without being offered it?

Crazy. I hope your luck holds out.
(username failed moderation, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 8:55, closed)

The way I saw it then
rightly or wrongly, was that if stopped I would much rather be able to place my bags of weed straight in the hands of the law, than have fart-arsed about trying to hide it, and then get the rubber gloves treatment for my trouble.

One unfortunate by-product of this approach was that when flying back from Amsterdam one time, I put my jacket in the overhead locker. When I opened the locker when we landed, the effect was like a cannabis-flavoured stink bomb being unleashed. Many were the looks I got.

I deliberately took the stuff into the Caribbean so as not to fuel the drugs economy there. Talk to a local, see what they feel about loads of tourists buying drugs there - it's the thing that creates the most crime locally.

BTW all of this is very much past tense. Like I said, I've lucked out enough so don't intend to take any through any more borders...
(TheImmortalJenkins, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 13:45, closed)

I really don't think that handing over a bag of weed would make any difference to the ensuing search.

( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 18:17, closed)

Hypocrite!
A real man would martyr himself for the cause.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 10:10, closed)

But if it was legalised, how could we legitimately stop plebs or non-whites getting their uneducated grubby mitts on it?

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 29 Jan 2012, 22:09, closed)

Are you gonna ask for a brief, or you going to self represent yo bad ass?
Why not spare the poor chaps at customs your pre prepared speech on the matter, as they just don't care, and will think you're an even bigger prick.
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Mon 30 Jan 2012, 9:40, closed)