To cut a long story short, i was on my way to visit friends in Guernsey (channel islands) last weekend and was arrested for the first time ever.
I had decided to take what was left of my weekend weed with me, it turned out to be 1.1 g (weighed by customs, without the bag they told me), well when i got off the ferry i was escorted into the customs shed and asked “anything to declare”.
Being an honest chap and because i thought theres no point in lying as they’ll probably search me anyway, so i said i had a small amount of cannabis, also thinking that they wouldn’t do much apart from confiscate it, how wrong i was.
In Guernsey cannabis is still class b and they’re very anal about drugs, the customs blokes were in fact apologetic about it, they said they had no choice but to arrest me, my bag and person were thoroughly searched, they found nothing else because i had nothing else on me, i was lucky i hadn’t left a bag with a bit of MDMA which was left over from Friday night in my wallet because apparently they’re even more anal about that.
The customs and police officers were actually really nice to me (Stockholm syndrome?) probably because i was nice to them and cooperated, customs even let me out of the cells into the warehouse area for a cigarette (they gave me a whole pack) at which point i had a lengthy conversation with them about the pros and cons of renewable energy whilst chain smoking cigarettes and drinking a cup of tea.
After that i was transfered to police custody to be properly arrested and to allow big brother, sorry the state, to take my picture, DNA and fingerprints.
After about an hour and half with them most of which i spent in the cells reading Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (luckily i had it with me) i was lucky enough to get bail, lucky in that they Don’t normally bail people with no local address in case they do a runner.
Being a bank holiday Sunday i had to wait around until Tuesday for my court appearance, at which i pleaded guilty and got fined £300 pounds.
That was some very expensive weed.
So, my advice is don’t take any drugs with you to the channel islands, it might be part of the UK but they’re seriously anally retentive about drugs there.
Rob
