Dubai

[Dee Sa]

Hubby has ben listening to the BBC World Service --- apparently passengers entering or in transit at Dubai have been searched and charged with drug ofences for carrying non precription drugs !!! i.e. codiene, hay fever and jet lag remediesetc that you dont have a prescription for or cannot prove they have been prescribed for you, so be warned.Apparently its the airport police doing stop & search and then jail.
Having lived in Dubai for 14 yrs in the 80s I find this laughable as in those days you could buy any type of pill without prescription i.e mogadons, prosac etc and in the 90s they got a bit stricter.
So dont take with you, buy when you get there.

[jno]

that's right, somebody got arrested a year or two ago with some codeine. But I didn't realise it was happening to transit passengers too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_co unties/4200952.stm

[jno]

PS you lived there for 14 years in the 80s? Some people cram a lot of living into a short time!

[Dee Sa]

those were the days jno !!!!!!!!