Yesterday a British woman was sent to an Egyptian prison for 3 years for importing 270 tramadol tablets into Egypt for her boyfriend’s use. Though legal in the U.K. tramadol is a controlled drug. It is not clear how she had obtained these drugs in the U.K. as the were not for her use.

This post is to remind boats carrying controlled drugs that some jurisdictions classify drugs and drug possession differently and vigorously prosecute transgressions.