• paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    Two pounds of weed btw. A man’s life because he wanted to get high with friends at a party or something. It’s illegal to import so it’s not unlikely that he wanted to get a bunch and use it over the course of a year. Fucking insane. Also fuck this articles’s loaded language and framing.

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      2 hours ago

      “Oh that? That’s my personal consumption kilo. Reason for visit? Business.”

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      5 hours ago

      Also very likely he was going to sell it.

      I’m for legalising weed, but trying to import it to a country that is notorious for executing people for even small amounts is fucking moronic.

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        3 hours ago

        144 people for about a week, per the article.

        That’s like 1500 dollars of weed. Hardly worth attempting to smuggle it unless it’s for personal use for a good long while.

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          Are you sure it’s that cheap in Singapore if it’s illegal there? A kilo is about 20 grand here in Estonia, has been for ages. When buying by the gram anyway, I don’t know anyone who buys it by the kilo. Assume it would be a bit cheaper them. And we don’t execute smugglers, it’s just illegal.

          I’d assume if they kill smugglers it’ll be way more expensive in Singapore