4 French Arrested for Using Drugs in Siem Reap

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soup wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:20 pm
AndyKK wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2017 12:24 pm
hanno wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2017 12:19 pm
Beerinthemorning wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2017 11:48 am
chorlton wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2017 9:17 am not something I do but seen it done openly in some bars in SR
I think i'll quietly leave next time someone lights up
too easy to get accused as a bystander
:shock:
Doesn't happen often but I agree with chorlton. A few years ago they raided one of the Happy Pizza places in Siem Reap and everyone inside got arrested, happy or not. I have always been wary of places were people light up, way to easy for the police to target everybody around for a shake-down.

I thought people went to eat Pizza, not to engage in joint smoking. Are the "happy pizza's" legal?
It's not the weed they're worried about, it's the meth and the X.

Moreover, the town of SR is much smaller than PP so the coppers have less money to make and less crime to focus on. Chasing small-time users are what they have to do.
It was more than just a joint or two. The copper leading the raid showed me a video of when they searched the owner's house, apparently they were dealing a fair bit.
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Barang_doa_slae wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2017 3:21 pm No evidence but being piss tested in a touristic establishment police raid? Haven’t you been local long enough to shrug off at the possibility? Seems to me that not only occurrences are as rare as tigers sightings, walking out of it should be basic top bloque expat level.
I am not worried about a drug test as I do not do drugs. But having your face plastered all over the press getting caught up in a drug raid might not be so good career-wise.
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it's already done at:

http://www.arey-news.com/archives/217314

.....the most people think, that you can do what you want in asia. That myght be possible the most time. But If you don't take care and smoke in public, thats what happen.....with a little taste of "Midnight express"....
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these are REALLY small time dealers
18 packages of crystal methamphetamine weighing 3.46 grams, one package of dried marijuana weighing 12.34 grams, one package of ecstasy weighing 46.5 grams, a drug scale and other drug related materials.
barley enough for a good time party for all of them

now these guys were dealers; :beer3:
Australia seizes $760m of meth in its largest ever bust

AUSTRALIA: Australia has seized more than Aus$1.0 billion (B289.40 billion) of crystal meth its biggest ever bust of the highly-addictive drug, police said today (Dec 22).
Commonly known as “ice”, the massive 1.2 ton haul was intercepted after being offloaded from a boat, the Valkoista, which authorities believe came from China.
Australia has the world’s highest per capita consumption of crystal meth and the country has become an increasingly attractive destination for drug-smugglers, with street prices soaring.

Much of the ice hitting its streets comes from China and the Golden Triangle region where the borders of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos meet.
https://www.thephuketnews.com/australia ... -65241.php

As i understand it the Mexican cartel has already moved into Australia and is dealing coke there were it goes for upwards of $50,000 /kilo wholesale ( compare that to 20 in the states) and on the street, $200-250/grm!!
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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phuketrichard wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2017 4:50 pm these are REALLY small time dealers
18 packages of crystal methamphetamine weighing 3.46 grams, one package of dried marijuana weighing 12.34 grams, one package of ecstasy weighing 46.5 grams, a drug scale and other drug related materials.
barley enough for a good time party for all of them

now these guys were dealers; :beer3:
Australia seizes $760m of meth in its largest ever bust

AUSTRALIA: Australia has seized more than Aus$1.0 billion (B289.40 billion) of crystal meth its biggest ever bust of the highly-addictive drug, police said today (Dec 22).
Commonly known as “ice”, the massive 1.2 ton haul was intercepted after being offloaded from a boat, the Valkoista, which authorities believe came from China.
Australia has the world’s highest per capita consumption of crystal meth and the country has become an increasingly attractive destination for drug-smugglers, with street prices soaring.

Much of the ice hitting its streets comes from China and the Golden Triangle region where the borders of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos meet.
https://www.thephuketnews.com/australia ... -65241.php

As i understand it the Mexican cartel has already moved into Australia and is dealing coke there were it goes for upwards of $50,000 /kilo wholesale ( compare that to 20 in the states) and on the street, $200-250/grm!!
It's pretty much impossible to get coke into Australia, which is why they have a terrible meth problem. In the UK because we have easy access to good quality coke we don't really see meth.
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there has been coke in oz for decades. it is the quality at issue
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frank lee bent wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:59 pm there has been coke in oz for decades. it is the quality at issue
cause they cut the shit out of it
buy 1 kilo $50,000 grand, put a 50% hit on it, make a ton of $$ :beer3:

Bali decades ago was the transshipment point for coke from Amsterdam and the states, for a long time
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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Cocaine is smuggled across the Pacific into Australia now. There have been seem huge busts recently. 500kgs last Xmas and 2 x 1.5 tonne shipments seized in the Pacific on the way to Australia this year.
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Beerinthemorning wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2017 11:47 am stupid cambodian coppers.
Yes, Philippino police have a much more effective way of dealing with junkie trash
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ahhh true story concerning the greed of Filipino customs
was heading down to oz from Bangkok with a friend one year
he was carrying 3 kilos of hash
He was caught in Manila airport tranisting, they took him aside in to the rest room, told him it would cost hm $10,000 to walk . He told them he had no money,
SOOO
he made a deal, allow him to take 1 kilo with him an he would sell it in Oz and come back and buy the other 2 off them.
they agreed
guess what.....he never returned to manila LOL
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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