Suetaz

Hong Kong intercepts mail-order marijuana from Canada

Globe and Mail | April 18,2004

Hong Kong — Hong Kong customs officials arrested five people for allegedly ordering marijuana by mail from Canada with a total local market value of more than $360,000 (Canadian), officials and news reports said.

The Sing Tao Daily newspaper reported Sunday that the cannabis was in boxes purporting to contain ginseng tea.

Officers found seven kilograms of the drug in several mail packages between April 8 and last Friday, Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department said in a statement Saturday.

The government statement didn't provide further information on the five suspects arrested, but the Sing Tao report said they were men aged between 23 and 40.

The statement didn't say whether they'd been charged.

Importing marijuana carries a maximum penalty of about $17,000 and 15 years of imprisonment in Hong Kong.


[Suetaznote: Apparently we are not just supplying the US. Guess our 'crack marijauna' is pretty popular... wonder what Walters would have to say about this. ]