This is a translation of an article I've found recently in a March 2006 issue of a Ro*manian daily newspaper.
"Drugs ordered through the Internet
A 17 year old youth from Ploiesti is being investigated for importation of high risk drugs by postal parcel, as quoting Rompres. The case was presented by antidrug officers in a press conference, being considered a first in Ro*mania regarding the originality of drug users. The young man from Ploiesti fooled around on the Internet and ordered from The Netherlands, with a bank card, seeds of the YOPO shrub, which in Ro*mania are considered high-risk drugs. The parcel entered the country by way of the Ro*manian Postal Service, that notified the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Bureau in Ploiesti. When collecting the package, the youth was apprehended by customs workers and antidrug officers. 22 seeds of the YOPO shrub were found in the package, considered high-risk drugs. The youth is at present under criminal investigation for importation of high-risk drugs for personal use and faces a prison sentence of 15 to 25 years."
The United States are internationally berated for executing murderers for crimes committed under the age of 18. To top that, our country is going to send a boy to prison for longer than he's lived on the outside for 22 seeds he ordered probably out of playfulness.
It is worth noting that the prison therm the 17 year old is facing is the same as that provided by the Ro*manian Penal Code for first degree murder.
By the way, this appeared as a footnote article in two or three newspapers, then nothing was heard of it again. What a quaint little country we have here!
03-12-2006, 08:48
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