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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,083 posts)
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 08:16 PM Sep 2019

Staten Island woman arrested in Russia for allegedly bringing marijuana into the country

Source: CNN

A New York woman has been arrested in Russia on suspicion of possessing marijuana that she said was for medicinal purposes, Russian courts told CNN on Tuesday.

Audrey Eliza Lorber was arrested on charges of transporting cannabis into Russia from the United States, after marijuana weighing about 19 grams was found during a search of her possessions at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport, courts press service representative Darya Lebedeva told CNN.

Nineteen grams is nearly 3/4 of an ounce.

Lorber had a US permit to use marijuana as part of a medical program, but the permit doesn't apply in Russian territory, Lebedeva said.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/staten-island-woman-arrested-in-russia-for-allegedly-bringing-marijuana-into-the-country/ar-AAH55yg?li=BBnbcA1

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Staten Island woman arrested in Russia for allegedly bringing marijuana into the country (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2019 OP
Well, that was dumb. RGinNJ Sep 2019 #1
Very. Lochloosa Sep 2019 #2
idiot. TeamPooka Sep 2019 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Sep 2019 #4
Sad for her rownesheck Sep 2019 #5
i would love to go. Putin and corrupt politics is a problem JI7 Sep 2019 #6
She's Russian Polybius Sep 2019 #8
Wouldn't want to be her. JohnnyRingo Sep 2019 #7
Russia is fantastic. cvoogt Sep 2019 #9
We just came back from St. Petersburg Danmel Sep 2019 #10
Had she been a Mexican woman arrested in Idaho for the same thing... hunter Sep 2019 #11
how stupid would you have to be? Skittles Sep 2019 #12
Good grief woman! LittleGirl Sep 2019 #13
How dumb do you have to be? EllieBC Sep 2019 #14

Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

JI7

(89,173 posts)
6. i would love to go. Putin and corrupt politics is a problem
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 09:45 PM
Sep 2019

but there is amazing history and culture to experience.

Polybius

(15,238 posts)
8. She's Russian
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 10:27 PM
Sep 2019

She was visiting her family. I for one would love to go. The government isn't but the country is beautiful.

JohnnyRingo

(18,581 posts)
7. Wouldn't want to be her.
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 09:58 PM
Sep 2019

I crossed the border into Canada to Niagara Falls back in the '80s and left my weed at home. It killed me, but I wasn't going to take the chance.

To say the least, I would have relied on local sources in Russia.

cvoogt

(949 posts)
9. Russia is fantastic.
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 11:14 PM
Sep 2019

The government? Not so much.

Moscow has the most gorgeous and best metro system in the world, by a mile.

Danmel

(4,892 posts)
10. We just came back from St. Petersburg
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 11:41 PM
Sep 2019

It was beautiful and fascinating , but I left my weed and my copy of the Mueller report at home.

LittleGirl

(8,261 posts)
13. Good grief woman!
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 12:24 PM
Sep 2019

WTH? A few grams probably wouldn’t have been detected but 19! Come on. She was asking for it.

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