Russia Will Allow Soccer Fans To Bring Marijuana, Cocaine, And Heroin Into Stadiums During The World Cup
Newsweek- A bureaucratic loophole will allow soccer fans attending the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia this summer to bring cannabis, cocaine and even heroin into events as long as attendees have the proper medical paperwork. The Moscow-based Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), a joint economic trade bloc of countries including Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, allows for certain banned narcotic and psychotropic drugs to be brought into the country with supporting medical documentation. The Russian-led union of nations gives foreign travelers the right to carry drugs including cannabis and cocaine with the proper prescription papers. These regulations allowing for travelers to import and register narcotics will be applicable as millions of soccer fans from across the world descend on Russia for 2018 World Cup events between June and July.
FIFA rules also allow spectators to have narcotics on their person, but they must have a prescription written in either English or Russian, the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper first reported. Russian Federation laws about proper conduct for spectators will still be in effect at all of the 11 Russian cities hosting World Cup events. The country’s smoking ban in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sochi venues will also still be active. Russia’s 2018 World Cup Organizing Committee released a statement Tuesday confirming that narcotics will be allowed in and that law enforcement officers working the various venue checkpoints throughout the country will be assigned with verifying football fans’ drug prescription authenticity.
The full list of substances allowed into Russia as it hosts the World Cup events between June 14 to July 15 will allow for cocaine, codeine, morphine, amphetamines and cannabis.
Well the U.S. may not be in it, but I guess the World Cup is still Must Watch TV for non-diehard soccer fans. Instead of watching the boys on the pitch, we will get to see Hamsterdam be recreated by the craziest set of sports fans in the world. If watching a bunch of hooligans coked up and next to their rivals during the biggest sporting event of their lives is not a good reason to skip work and go to the bar, I don’t know what is. Those sons of bitches are crazy enough just on alcohol and national pride. I can’t imagine what happens when you start mixing in top shelf drugs. Even Russians that aren’t soccer fans will be scalping tickets to get into some games just because it will be the biggest party and/or fight club on the planet for a month.
And don’t give me any of that “The fans will need a prescription” bullshit. You think some Russian security guard making a couple of Rubles is going to turn down a horde of crazed Columbian soccer fans loaded to the gills with drugs because their prescription looks like it was written on the bottom of a milk carton? Fuck no. Bouncers in New York have a hard enough time figuring out if a New Jersey license is real or not. No way some Rooskie traffic cop that got pulled into a World Cup detail is going to stop someone from literally tying one on because their forged prescription didn’t have all its T’s crossed and I’s dotted. This is Russia we are talking about. The same place where this video was recorded.
The only downside to all of this is that I’m terrified for Donnie’s well-being when he makes the inevitable Donnie Does Every Drug Available At The World Cup video.
P.S. All of this reminded me of the fights in the stands that were apparently happening at Rough N Rowdy 2. We need a Crowd Camera at #RnR3 more than we even need a headliner. By the sounds of the crowd, some of the best punches and craziest bastards resided outside of the squared circle in Morgantown.