Dubai tourists warned over tough drug stance

Summary

February 8, 2008: People visiting Dubai have been arrested for drug smuggling even when they only carried certain types of medicine commonly available in Western countries or, in one case, when a person had eaten a bread with poppy seeds and several seeds clung to his clothing.

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Game and Story Use

• Adventure Seed: Revenge Of The Cargo Cult
• Adventure Seed: Calamari Caper

• If the GM needs to get the PCs in trouble with the local authorities of a country they are visiting, an incident like this is easy to arrange.
• Alternatively, the PCs need a person to come with them who was imprisoned thanks to an incident like this.