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Ridiculous war on the Cannabis Plant continues,DJ Grooverider also falls victim to prohibition.
Keith Brown, 43, of Smethwick, West Midlands,U.K has been sentenced to four years in priosn in Dubai for "drug trafficking" in one of the most bizarre cannabis related prosecutions in recent years,each prosecution of course being an injustice on teh victim.
Customs officials in Dubai found 0.003g of the drug - an amount that is invisible to the naked eye and weighs less than a grain of sugar - in his shoe.
 Grooverider,4 years in jail for 2.16g of Cannabis Lee Brown,said that his brother Keith, 43, of Smethwick, West Midlands, had suffered a "grave injustice".
Customs officials found 0.003g of the drug - an amount that is invisible to the naked eye and weighs less than a grain of sugar - in his shoe.
The youth development officer was sentenced to four years in prison.
Lee Brown, 57, said: "Keith's distraught and he's angry, he isn't happy.
He said his brother did not know how the drug came to be in the tread of his shoe.
He added: "He could have stepped in it walking along and he got hell for that.
"I think they were hoping to find other things on him. It's hard to put into words how you feel about such a grave injustice."
Meanwhile, BBC Radio 1 DJ Grooverider has been jailed for four years in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for cannabis possession.
The DJ - real name Raymond Bingham - was arrested in November 2007 for flying in for a nightclub gig with 2.16g of cannabis in his luggage.
Bingham denied smuggling drugs, claiming he had left the cannabis in a trouser pocket and forgotten about it.
"Grooverider has paid a very high price for a serious mistake," a spokesman for Radio 1 said.
The 40-year-old has been with the station since 1998 and hosted the weekend drum 'n' bass show with fellow DJ Fabio
Dubai, in the United Arab Emirate (UAE), has a zero-tolerance drugs policy.
The legal charity Fair Trials International has now advised visitors to the UAE to "take extreme caution" and "avoid arrest for 'possession' of a controlled substance".
Chief executive Catherine Wolthuizen said: "We have seen a steep increase in such cases over the last 18 months.
"Customs authorities are using highly sensitive new equipment to conduct extremely thorough searches on travellers and if they find any amount - no matter how minute - it will be enough to attract a mandatory four-year prison sentence."
It follows a recent spate of arrests and imprisonment.
The list of banned substances in the UAE includes many products which are available over-the-counter and off-the-shelf in the UK.
These include medications such as codeine, a common ingredient in pain relief and cold-and-flu medication, and the common baking ingredient, poppy seeds.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6Curiously enough more "Irish" Euro banknotes are contaminated with cocaine than UK notes. If you carry your passport next to your cash - chances are your passport is contaminated too. If you carry your cocaine next to your passport the chances are higher.
They had this story over a week ago on Daily Rotten sourced from (all spit) the daily mail
The cannabis in question was ON (trapped in the dirt in the thread underneath) the individuals shoe rather than IN his shoe.
The distinction is important because it opens the possibility that the cannabis wasnt actually his at all.
There was another guy done for "possesing" poppy seeds which had become lodged in his clothing after he ate a breadroll he bought in Heathrow airport before flying to Dubai.
Yeah Mr Brown was released according to (SkyNews), pardoned apparently; as for Grooverider, well what to say.
Feel really sorry for him totally bogie situation.
Still I bet he has a nicer life in jail there than all the poor fuckers working for a pittance in Dubai as builders and skivvies and whatnot.
Im definitely never ever going there!!!!
Dubai, a close ally of the United States has installed this high tech detection equipment as part of the 'war on terrorism'. It detects traces of any chemical they deem dangerous.
This man was pardoned because it was shown that he was not intentionally transporting the drug but travellers to Dubai should be aware that they can be deemed to be in possession of such banned substances if they can be detected in their urine or bloodstream. It's not just tiny, trace amounts on their person that can land you in trouble. A sickness or accident that gets you a hospital blood test can be just as dangerous.
This hi tech detection equipment is on it's way here and to all European countries soon. First it will be our Irish and European airports and then other buildings like courthouses and goverment departments. One wonders how our judges, barristers and politicians will be able to go to work without a full scrub down and change of clothes!
Friend of a friend got stopped a few weeks ago.
Info in link.
Thing is as has already beren pointed out EVERYONE is more than 5 quid in their pockets is probably in possesion of cocaine.
If the legal definition of possesion is extended to whats INSIDE ones body then apparently some drugs including alcohol (possibly an issue in some Middle Eastern countries) occur naturally in trace quantities in the bodies of even those who have never touched the stuff in their lives.