[superface13]

This is really fucked up!!

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/...unds_marijuana

Southeast Asia: Malaysia Court Sentences Woman to Death for Two Pounds of Marijuana

A Malaysian court has sentenced a Thai woman to death for trafficking 1.04 kilograms of marijuana. Under the country's draconian Dangerous Drugs Act of 1952, any drug trafficking offense garners a mandatory death sentence.

The ruling came Wednesday at the High Court in Kota Baru. Judge Datuk Muhamad Ideres Muhamad Rapee ordered the sentence after the prosecution managed to prove a prima facie against Roseedah Cheubong, 41, who was crying as the sentence was issued.

The court ignored the pleas of Roseedah's attorney, Zamri Mat Nawang, who told it she was a single mother trying to fend for herself and her teenage child and that she was sorry for what she had done. Instead, it listened to deputy prosecutors Wan Abad Razak Wan Hussin, who called for the mandated penalty because of the "gravity" of the offense.

Roseedah has been jailed since she was arrested in February 2004 for selling a kilogram of weed outside a gas station. No word yet on possible appeals.

The provincial High Court sentence came little more than a week after the Malaysian Federal Court upheld the death sentence of a taxi driver for trafficking less than two kilos of marijuana. According to the anti-death penalty organization Hands Off Cain, so far this year, Malaysian courts have imposed the death sentence 12 times. Only two death sentences were for murder. The other 10 were for drug trafficking, and eight of those were for trafficking marijuana.

Human rights and harm reduction groups have organized an international campaign to end the death penalty for drug offenses. Read about it here. Since Malaysia does not make a habit of publicly announcing executions, it is unclear how many of the marijuana traffickers sentenced to death have actually been executed.

[Greenbud]

Remind me never to visit Malaysia.

GB

[brokeneckdog]

Seemingly just possession of MJ will get you life in prison or death by hanging.

[420love]

No wonder those countries have so many political and socio-economical issues! A society without weed is wrong indeed.

[yoyoyo]

thats so messed up, in america we spend billions on keeping drug possesers in jail, in malasia they probably make a good amount of money selling the organs of their drug possesers, china is like that, i dont know about malasia, there is a type of tree that you can grow legally in the united states and in china you get the death penalty for having it because its leaves can have opium like effects...sometimes i actually appreciate the usa...to bad i dont have the money to move to spain cus i would appreciate living there a lot more

[coolhands421]

H.b.o on demand .. Documentrys.... Ganja queen....

[Chronman23]

I've see that Ganja Queen movie and I dont even know what to think about it. The whole thing about her making it through security at one airport and then they find the drugs at the next airport seems so suspicious.

The woman in this case was probably just a mule too if she was doing it to feed herself and her teenager daughter. I doubt she owned that kilo of pot so much as she was the one dropping it off the the buyer... but she's still the one that gets the death penalty.

[LOLODALIGHTSKINNEDDYME]

Originally Posted by brokeneckdog

Seemingly just possession of MJ will get you life in prison or death by hanging.

smh. sad indeed.

[Eazy]

...this is utterly insane!

[Sir smokes-A-Lot]

Totaly fucked up and FUCK MALAYSIA.

[natefrogg]

malaysia is on the do not visit list, just like dubai, lol

wow, poor lady, that's pretty nuts to just kill people over a plant, sad to say i am not surprised though =( what a bummer...

[Tender Love Collective (TLC)]

This news makes me sad. Hope she can get an appeal.

[BabyBoomer]

This is so sad, indeed.

Sentenced to Death.

Yes, let's hope that she can appeal.

And she has already been in jail since 2004???

Perhaps this publicity will aid her and the others imprisoned. Isn't Malaysia one of those countries that wants to keep a great image to the rest of the world?

This really is so sad.

[OG Dave]

It's very sad indeed. I believe the punishments should fit the crimes. But putting a woman to death over some pot is insane. The judge should be stoned to death for sentencing that woman to death. The judge is the real criminal.

[42zeRo]

Remeber that movie Return To Paradise? It had Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix in it.
This reminds me of that.
Sad.

[SpirituallyEnlightened]

fuck. this is not right.

[Eazy]

Any updates on this? I searched google for a bit but found no new information. If anybody finds an update, please keep us posted!