Tonnes of hash

So, you thought no way in hell anyone would think of smoking up in this country. I mean come on... it's Qatar after all. Qatar, Saudi, Oman... they're all the F*&^ing same.

Ghanta.

Everything happens here. Everything. Only, it isn't as visible as it is in other countries maybe.

Just day before yesterday, the cops caught tonnes and tonnes (they did not reveal figures) of hash being smuggled into Qatar through sea.

The demand's obviously there. There are people who smoke up and it does happen.

Everywhere it does.

What if you're caught? Nothing man, if you're unlucky they'll whip you, which is unlikely. They stopped whipping people a few years back. They'll just deport you back to your country. That's it.

So please, sitting back there in India, or the US, or UK thinking if you stare at a girl out here they'll pop your eyes out, or if you're caught drinking alcohol they'll execute you, and they'll bloody behead you if you're even caught near a hash ball thrown around... please... stop thinking crap.

If things were only a little more cooler in Qatar... just a little more, there'd be raves everywhere. In the dunes, near the blue sea...

It's what Qatar doesn't want. They don't want to liberalise so much that it boomerangs on them. They know everything's happening. But they want to keep the fear in the people alive.

Good move, I say.

And no, the smugglers will not be executed, I am sure. I really want to see what happens to them.

Some say Qatar never executes on Qatar soil. They take them across the border and hand them over to Saudi, which happily beheads the 'sinner' for Qatar. But I don't know how far this is true.

I don't think Qatar thinks this is a big deal really. Nor do the newspapers. It's a very small news item on the front page. No one's making too much noise about this.

Seems like its really not as big a deal as we all make it out to be -- drugs in an Islamic nation.

Big f*&^ing deal.