26 May, 2005

arbitage

Well back in my blogspot days, I mused that Schapelle Leigh Corby - an Australian now being tried for drug smuggling in Indonesia - was possibly guilty of something worse than smuggling pot. I said she may have been guilty of stupid business practices:

..there seems to be no market rationale for what she allegedly did. According to the United Nations 2004 World Drug Report (large pdf file
pp. 378-380) cannabis costs US$1.10 per gram in Indonesia and US$19.20
per gram in Australia. Effectively, it would lose almost 95% of its
value as soon as it were delivered.

Anyone who would smuggle drugs to Bali is an incredibly large dumbass.

Jakartass, however, seems to think she may have been servicing a niche market:

I surmised on Tuesday that Australians in Bali may prefer their own home grown. Apparently, I was right.

A
Balinese drug dealer who has spent time in jail said he had smoked the
Australian ’skunk’ many times with friends from Italy, Germany and
Australia but had never bought or sold any.

He recognised the marijuana as Australian as it was made up of large
flowers or buds, while the marijuana he sells from Aceh in north
Sumatra or from Malang in East Java has much smaller buds and a lot of
leaf mixed in.

by @ 11:19 pm. Filed under Indonesia

One Response to “arbitage”

  1. Jakartass Says:

    There is very cogent and balanced comment on my blog from a Ray Salmon regarding “the police .. acting as the judiciary”.

    He cites the judge’s comment that all the accused in his some 400 trials have been found guilty.

    Definitely worth a read.

    http://jakartass.blogspot.com/2005/05/corby-gets-twenty-years.html.

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