It is worth noting that US authorities participated in the investigation and raid according to the article.
Wow! 5 years to life. Do not fuck around and find out in Asia.
Skorea out here busting a small time dealer and 12 customers with a huge multinational raid, bloody pathetically sad of them.
For real, I knew a guy that kept an ounce as his daily supply. As in, he’d set aside an ounce each day for casual smoking with friends. This whole four month raid was over three days of heavy college smoking. The demonization of marijuana is such a ridiculous waste, and leads to weird stuff like selling K2, which is a shittier version of weed, with actual risks as you can overdose on K2.
It’s not even a shittier version of weed; it’s whatever random chemical the supplier could find that’s legal that day and has vaguely weed-like effects in whoever they decided to test it on.
Well, it’s a cluster of synthetic cannabinoids, but it was officially banned by the DEA after they finally skipped past the banning specific molecules and banned the entire family of cannabinoids, so it’s no longer the molecule of the month special.
Still not ideal though.
I mean, sure, but raiding two military bases and facing 5 years to life for having some vape juice and a couple ounces of synthetic marijuana spread across twenty some people is absurd. Especially when places are steadily legalizing marijuana.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
South Korean police are investigating 17 US soldiers and five other people who allegedly smuggled or used synthetic marijuana via military mail.
A tip from the US Army’s enforcement arm had sparked a four-month investigation by Korean authorities.
It was one of the largest in recent years involving American soldiers, US media reported citing Cha Min-seok, a senior detective in South Korea.
Joint raids by South Korean police and the US Army’s Criminal Investigation Division found 77g (2.7oz) of synthetic cannabis, more than 4kg of “mixed liquids” used for vaping and a total of $12,850 (£10,440) in cash at the 22 suspects’ homes.
They are accused of smuggling synthetic marijuana - known by the street names K2 and Spice - into the country through the US military’s postal service.
In South Korea, those convicted of trafficking marijuana face from five years to life in prison.
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From the full article
‘In South Korea, those convicted of trafficking marijuana face from five years to life in prison. Drug possession carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison or a fine of about 50m won ($37,200; £30,300).’
So even possession is punishable. They aren’t going to care that it’s a small amout, and with the cash they also confiscated they will assume there was more that had already been sold. That is where the trafficking comes in I would guess.
I don’t know about Korea but in the US, trafficking doesn’t necessarily mean trafficking. It means having more on hand than some bureaucrat decided a normal person would keep for their own personal use.
2.7 oz is a stupid amount of K2 (synthetic cannabis).
It’s already a ton of natural cannabis. If you cup your hands together, that is about one ounce of weed which will keep you fucked up for a while. Now imagine 2.7 times that, and since it’s synthetic cannabis it’s way stronger.
Edit: To be clear I don’t think weed should be illegal, and South Korea has draconic drug laws. I use it myself, which is how I know that 2.7 oz is a lot of weed.
I knew a guy who’d go through half an ounce every day. I thought that was a pretty fucked up amount, but then I’ve never been a really hard-core stoner, and it was probably Mexican ditch weed.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/alcohol-consumption-by-country
They are not even in the top 10. Where do you get your stats? Most European and other Asian countries crush South Korea in the drinking stats anyway.
Most drug laws in any country are stupid and misguided.
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