The first rule of Russia is, don’t go to Russia, if you come from a country that they can get useful prisoners in exchange for swapping you for after they snatch you.
Carrying cannabis gummies there honestly shouldn’t even need its own special rule. There are multiple overlapping rules that should rule that right out before we even start talking about it.
Might wanna double-check whose word are you taking that he was carrying weed of any kind.
That’s very true. I read this part carelessly:
The man claimed that the sweets were prescribed by a doctor in the US and that he needed them for traveling, according to the TASS news agency.
I think you are right. Also, see rule 1. It really doesn’t matter.
The true lesson is to never travel to Russia when their stock of political prisoners held on drug charges is depleted. They just traded one for the CEO of BTCe exchange and had to restock.
Their jails can hold quite a bit more than one person.
Of course, at least as far as the US is concerned, they’re not going to need to even release anybody pretty soon. They can just call up Trump and say “hey send us that war criminal you’re holding on to” and he’ll say “okey dokey.”