Woman facing death for marijuana charges

[yaga]

I am Mexican and here in my country people deads for the drugs

come on... the people dont dead becouse the marijuana!! it is only a plant!! and is legal ins the upfront countries...

the law in bali is fucking sux.

in mexico the people dead for another reassons for example.. the politic

[PsynceFiction[MS]]

People murder (not "deads") Just pointing something out... :wink:

-Psynce-

[chemicalbeavis]

[Mr.Big]

I don't see why people are saying she's stupid for smuggling...the people who say that are stupid..

4.2kilos is alot to have in ur bag to think u could just walk through customs.. that shit was defo planted and im sure she was 100% innocent.

[hacamatic]

If you read the article the link provided: http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4092.html , she is charged with trying to smuggle marijuana (from Australia) into Bali which doesn't make sense since mj is so much cheaper in Bali. Here's an excerpt:

On October 8, 2004, Corby was caught with 4.2 kilos of marijuana in her luggage at an airport in Bali. Police told reporters it was the largest amount of cannabis taken into Indonesia, and the first such case involving an Australian. Indonesian media has dubbed Corby "the marijuana queen."

Corby, a Gold Coast beauty school student, insists the marijuana was not hers. Many of Corby's supporters believe the marijuana must have been planted in her bag. For one, marijuana tends to be smuggled out of Bali, rather than into Bali because the prices for cannabis in Bali are much lower than the prices for cannabis in Australia. Even the head of the police investigation, Lieutenant-Colonel Bambang Sugiarto, ageed that it is unprecedented for anyone to smuggle marijuana into Bali from Australia.

In addition, the cannabis was found in a clear plastic bag in her body board bag, nestled on top of her yellow swimming fins and her body board. Sugiarto said no fingerprint tests had been conducted on the vacuum-sealed plastic bag, because too many hands had touched it after its discovery.

Unfortunately, despite all of the public attention on Corby's case, the Balinese authorities have done little to help her plight. There is no record to be found with the weight of her body board bag as it left Australia, and it seems that the X-ray images taken of her bag as it passed through the Brisbane airport have been erased.

In 1997, the Indonesian government added the death penalty as a punishment for those convicted of drugs in their country. The law has yet to be enforced on any significant, well established drug dealers. Rather, the trend has been to execute unknown, first time, alleged drug traffickers like Corby, who don't have a significant amount of money to bribe the authorities to set them free.

[Yao]

The usual shit. Same happens in Thailand all the time: looks pretty kool killing poor people for posession of drugs and not giving them a fair trial, and at the same time being friends with the real trafickers. The high-ranking officers make too much money off those guys, so they would be stupid to actually bring them before court.

You what really pisses me off? The governments, in this case the Australian, not doing enough to get those persons out of that situation. Just letting them take the fall in a fucking corrupt system, so as not to 'offend' the other govt. Well, fuck them I say.
If someone is really stupid enough to take the risk: their problem. They know what the risks are. But people getting lifelong jail sentences or death penalties b'cos those coward trafickers are using them...I gotta stop here, or I'm really gonna get worked up here.

[skahound]

Definitely looks like a pothead. Reminds me of 'Brokedown Palace'.

[cwsiggy]

Re: Woman facing death for marijuana charges

Funny articles on cannabis culture website. Apparently, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston are huge potheads. Maybe that's why they broke up.

[White_Hindu]

Hey, she's the one who is responsible. She should have known the law before smuggling her illegal drugs into the country. It's a wakeup call. We can't judge this law as wrong, because doing so would be aiding and abbeding smuggling, just like a common criminal.

I hope she's executed, it may spark up a good debate.

[Mr.Big]

^ u sir are an Idiot

as i said in my other post...that shit was planted...so obvious people

[Pataky P]

Thanks the links,and the great story!!!!

[Terry]

Hey, she's the one who is responsible. She should have known the law before smuggling her illegal drugs into the country. It's a wakeup call. We can't judge this law as wrong, because doing so would be aiding and abbeding smuggling, just like a common criminal.

I hope she's executed, it may spark up a good debate.

youre pathetic. You hope someone dies so that there is good debate? buddy, thats just sick

[hacamatic]

Hey, she's the one who is responsible. She should have known the law before smuggling her illegal drugs into the country. It's a wakeup call. We can't judge this law as wrong, because doing so would be aiding and abbeding smuggling, just like a common criminal.

I hope she's executed, it may spark up a good debate.

Did you even read the article? You are already assuming she is guilty.

Sure we can judge if a law is wrong. Just becuase something is law doesn't make it moral or right. We can say the law is wrong becuase we feel the punishment doesn't equal the crime. We can also judge the law as wrong because it is not applied consistently. And just because we disagree with a law it doesn't make us common criminals. Your leap in logic makes no sense. Without civil disobediance there would never be any change and the staus quo would forever remain.

[White_Hindu]

The problem is that the world isn't status quo. Your argument holds no validity, because Bali has different laws than the USA, and just because we may view this law as immoral doesn't make it so. Bali obviously feels very strongly about this law, and to say they're wrong when they are the lawmakers is stupid and pointless. If she's innocent, then the most she has to worry about is passing a polygraph test.

[esef]

my mom always said "that stuff'll kill ya"...

guess she was right.