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6 Countries Where One Mistake Could Get You Killed
Drugs, PDA or Just a Meme. These Are the Countries Where ‘I Didn’t Know’ Can Ruin Your Life
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A friend of mine once got pulled off a flight in Thailand for carrying CBD oil he bought legally in the States.
He thought the worst that could happen was a fine.
Turns out, in Bangkok, the airport security doesn’t do warnings. They do jail cells and threats of “long stay.”
But, he got lucky. Real lucky…
We Americans like to assume that wherever we go, our rights will follow us.
That our Constitution is some kind of international VIP pass.
Well, guess what sports fans? It’s not.
I’ve lived in places like Albania, Georgia, and Ukraine where the local rules didn’t just surprise me and they could have landed me in real trouble if I hadn’t learned them fast.
I’m not talking about cultural slip-ups like eating dinner too early in Spain or ordering cappuccino after noon in Italy either.
