Drum & Bass Pioneer Grooverider sentenced to 4 Years in prison
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He was traveling through Dubai on the way to a gig and was searched at the airport. There is a zero tolerance policy in Dubai and under UAE law drug trafficking carries a sentence ranging from four years jail to death.
“I must have forgotten the spliff,” Grooverider said in an interview last month. “It was a small amount. Back home I would not even get prosecuted.”
Grooverider is considered one of the top drum & Bass DJ's/producers in the history of the genre.
We have a long way to go as a society and as humanity when we find it reasonable to sentence good people to jail for four years for possession of enough weed for a couple joints.
“I must have forgotten the spliff,” Grooverider said in an interview last month. “It was a small amount. Back home I would not even get prosecuted.”
Grooverider is considered one of the top drum & Bass DJ's/producers in the history of the genre.
We have a long way to go as a society and as humanity when we find it reasonable to sentence good people to jail for four years for possession of enough weed for a couple joints.
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- jason_knight
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