7.5 years imprisonment for 9 grams of hashish in the luggage

Despite the fact that the age of enlightenment, in which any more or less educated person is obviously in need of legalization of marijuana, in most parts of the world it is still possible to raise the term of imprisonment even for negligible doses of plants. The victim of such a situation was Naama Issakhar, a citizen of Israel and the United States, who was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison by the Khimki Court in Moscow. Naama was detained in April in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo airport. In the luggage Issakhar, flying through Moscow in transit from Delhi to Tel Aviv, there were found 9.6 grams of hashish.

Issakhar was charged with two punitive articles – possession of significant quantities of drugs and smuggling. The girl admits that her luggage really had hashish in it. However, she did not have access to her suitcase during the transfer in Moscow.

The Issakhar’s defence insisted that she could not have had the intention to transport hashish across the Russian border because she did not leave the airport’s departure area and had no access to her luggage. She couldn’t get it until she arrived in Tel Aviv, where the cannabis was partially decriminalized.

But the prosecutor pointed out that the article on smuggling defines this crime as the importation of prohibited goods into the territory of the Eurasian Union.

Yesterday the President of Israel in his Twitter asked Vladimir Putin to pardon the Israeli woman. Frankly speaking, we doubt that something will come of it, but still let’s hope that the life of a girl will not be broken because of such a trifle.