Next time you decide to fly off from your leafy suburb to some exotic destination, make sure you’re up to speed with the drugs & other laws applicable to the country you plan to visit.Periodically in the United Arab Emirates incoming travellers run foul of the law when found in possession of one or more of the 365 banned substances. “Possession” includes having traces of the substance in your urine.Just imagine. You have a bon voyage bash at your favourite watering hole & the morning you fly, you have a hangover. So, you dip into your medicine chest & take a couple of painkillers. You put a few in your bag just in case you need them later, after all, it was a great night & you had a few too many.
Several hours later you land at Dubai. You are excited … your first time in the Middle East, your credit card is fully paid up & there’s all that duty free stuff you want to buy. But instead of getting to the Dubai malls, you finish up in the Al Wathba prison … not exactly what you’d intended.Unbeknown to you, your painkillers contain codeine phosphate, a drug outlawed in the UAE. When the UAE Customs officials asked you to step aside, you felt 100% confident that you’d have no problems. After the officials found your painkillers, they had you do a urine test which was positive for codeine. Then you were whisked away for 12 months jail. Not the holiday you had intended, right?In the UAE you can receive lengthy jail sentences for possession of drugs that have been prescribed to you by a doctor in your own country. Drugs you buy without a prescription can also be a problem. If you smoke cannabis or take some of the other non-medicinal drugs, you can receive a four year mandatory sentence. No if’s, but’s or maybe’s.Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/1003706
