Soccer fans will be able to bring their medical cannabis to the 2018 World Cup
The 2018 Football World Cup will be held in Russia from June 14, and it's certainly a first: fans will be able to carry their prescription drugs, including cannabis, cocaine and heroin. according to Izvestia, one of Russia's leading daily newspapers, reported by the Moscow Times.
Eurasian Economic Union guarantees travelers the right to bring substances prohibited in the country, provided they are accompanied by their travel documents written in Russian.
However, everything will be highly regulated: stadium security officers will be empowered to check the validity of prescriptions, all medicines will have to be declared in advance, and cannabis consumption will of course be prohibited in stadiums.
This announcement is rather strange, however. Russia is not exactly known for being soft on drug users. Although small quantities of cannabis decriminalized in Russia, Any offence, especially for a foreigner, can lead to imprisonment.
FIFA has yet to comment on the announcement, which comes just days after the Russian embassy in Argentina was caught red-handed trying to supply the motherland with 400 kilos of cocaine, a few months before the World Cup.
During Euro 2000 and Euro 2004, Dutch and Belgian police officers, then Portuguese, had voluntarily let the hooligans use cannabis to calm them down.
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