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NZ Accused of Drugs Double Standard After Student 
Posted by FoM on January 12, 2000 at 00:27:49 PT
News Bulletin
Source: ABC News Online
A French student is crying foul over New Zealand's judicial system after being forced to leave the country for importing a small amount of hashish.The 19-year-old has been sent packing just days after a United States billionaire was discharged without conviction and allowed to stay in New Zealand for a week despite being caught smuggling marijuana.
Ghislain Couston claims New Zealand has one law for the rich and another for the not-so-rich.He was ordered out of New Zealand last night after being convicted of sending four grams of hashish by mail to his girlfriend.He was also fined $NZ530.Couston says he is the victim of a gross case of double standards as he faced the same judge who only last week told a visiting US business tycoon he could stay for a week and granted him name suppression with no conviction, despite the man carrying nearly 100 more grams of marijuana product than the French student.The tycoon was ordered to pay an undisclosed amount to a drug rehabilitation program.Couston is now stranded in Tahiti and is seeking permission from the New Zealand government to return to New Zealand in order to catch his non-refundable flight to Paris.Meanwhile, the billionaire has to leave Auckland by midnight New Zealand time. This Bulletin: Wed, Jan 12 2000 © 2000 Australian Broadcasting CorporationJailed Man Angry That Billionaire Walked Free - 1/11/2000http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4262.shtmlMarijuana Arrest is a New Spotlight - 1/11/2000http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4258.shtmlGovernment Queries Court Sentence on Billionaire- 1/11/2000http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4256.shtml
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