Ganja Queen, Her Pot or Not Her Pot?
That is the question.
I was scrolling through the list of on-demand HBO documentaries to find something to watch late last night and narrowed it down to one called Ganja Queen and another about child kidnapping in China. Duane’s chose Ganja Queen so we watched the story of Schapelle Corby, a 28 year old Australian woman who was arrested and tried for smuggling 4.2 kilos of marijuana into Bali in a boogie board bag.
I found it spellbinding. I watched the case unfold, with Schapelle maintaining her innocence, her crazy family’s support, lingering questions about the possibility of their involvement and the media circus that surrounded the case from the start. What made it more compelling was that fact that she was fighting a sentence of death by firing squad, which unbelievingly - but true, is the sentence for for drug smuggling in Bali.
I won’t tell you what happened here but what I will say is that I spent several hours last night and this morning reading blogs and news accounts of this story and I am still not clear on what I think really is the truth of the matter. I want to believe, when she looks into the camera with those piercing blue eyes that she had no idea that the pot was in her bag. But that does not mean that someone she knew didn’t know and of anyone I think her younger brother who she was traveling with seems just stupid enough to do something like that.
The biggest red flag for me is the fact that Shapelle, who was a surfer, brought a boogie board and fins with her to Bali when her sister and Balesian brother-in-law, ran a Bali surf shop had all of the equipment that she would ever need? That, just doesn’t make sense to me and has me suspect there was some real stupidity involved somewhere in her family if not with her directly.
But it is a really good story because there are so many questions and complications. Check it out.
