Little bit of more info on Crown J's weedy situation

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

Singer Crown J, 31, was apprehended for smoking marijuana while staying overseas, Sunday, another case of an entertainer’s drug use revealed over the weekend.

The drug squad of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) booked the singer whose real name is Kim Kye-hoon without detention for smoking marijuana several times.

According to the police, Crown J stayed in the United States from May 2009 to October 2010 to record his new album and smoked marijuana, which he obtained there, five times at his home in Atlanta, Ga. and other places.

However, the rapper admitted only using the drug once or twice. The police are investigating further to find if any other entertainers or related people have smoked the drug with Crown J in the U.S.

Crown J debuted in 2006 with his first album “One & Only” and his second, “Miss Me?” was released in 2007. He became more famous when he appeared on the reality show “We Got Married” with Seo In-young, a former member of the group Jewelry, in 2008. Later he released a digital single with Seo titled “Too Much.”

The singer’s marijuana use was a great shock to his fans and television viewers as it came right after actor Kim Sung-min’s arrest for methamphetamine use on Saturday.

The actor was apprehended on charges of smuggling and habitually taking methamphetamine. He was immediately excluded from KBS’s Sunday show “Qualifications of a Man.” The drug squad of SMPA said the cases of Kim and Crown J are separate and no other entertainers have been implicated in the cases as of now.

Drug use has been a method of escape for Korean entertainers although illegally. Several entertainers have been caught for drug use in the past and it took an average of 40 months for them to return to the entertainment business.

Actress Hwang Su-jung was caught using amphetamine in November 2001 and it took about five years for her to return to the small screen. Another actress Sung Hyun-ah was caught for taking ecstasy in 2002 and singer Psy was found smoking marijuana.

Another actress, Kim Boo-seon also called for the legalization of marijuana and caused a public uproar in 2009. Singer Shin Hae-chul, also caught for drug use, insisted that marijuana should be legalized in Korea as well.

Source: Kwon Mee-yoo @ The Korea Times

Comments

[sparklop.livejournal.com]

Can the world please enter the 21 Century and legalize this shit

I mean there is so much more to gain from legalizing it compared to wasting money going after users.

[raye91star.livejournal.com]

why? its still a dug.

[831panda831.livejournal.com]

dude, im actually in morocco visiting now and I dont get to spend as much time with my friends because they always smoke that shit. I don't want to waste my weekends stoned xD

[iheartomntd.livejournal.com]

so they arrested him for smoking weed in the US?

now that's some bull

[luvey.livejournal.com]

this

i really liked him too

[nortonamo.livejournal.com]

Re: i really liked him too

[nortonamo.livejournal.com]

*not because he smoked weed, idfc about that

[queenie-chu9.livejournal.com]

dude how the hell did they find out he was smoking weed in Atlanta
and i'm confused. did he smuggle it into Korea? is that how he got caught?
*sorry for i'm feeling really dumb right now*

[iheartomntd.livejournal.com]

from what I gathered. They arrested him for "smoking overseas

I could've sworn he was a US citizen so I'm not sure how their laws would apply to him

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/12/117_77496.html

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

uuuuhhh can you really arrest someone for smoking in a different country? am i reading this shit right? preposterous. idgaf if it's illegal in s. korea but if you're doing it in a different CONTINENT isn't it out of their jurisdiction? what is this????

[meccamputech.livejournal.com]

ikr wtf

[jasmineakaiumi.livejournal.com]

Man, weed is NEGATIVE here. If you say "I got high" they'll probably be like WHAT, YOU USED THE ELEVATOR?

[meccamputech.livejournal.com]

all of yg better watch out

[dorkiilove.livejournal.com]

what out for what

none of them are really "gangster-y" as their concept persay

[prushrush.livejournal.com]

So pretty much they're arresting him for rocking the grass IN ANOTHER COUNTRY.

...Does SK NOT know the meaning of the word 'jurisdiction'?

[nandexdame.livejournal.com]

There are different ways you can obtain jurisdiction though depending on a country's laws. Nationality of the offender, nationality of the victim, location of the offense, where the offense was first planned even if it occurred somewhere else, etc.

[nandexdame.livejournal.com]

This situation seems similar to the Joo Ji Hoon situation in that no one caught him USING the drugs in that moment or even POSSESSING drugs--they just got him to admit that at some point, he had used them.

So I guess that in Korea, you can be guilty of a "status offense" which is something that does not exist in the US when we're talking about drugs. Meaning that it is a crime to "be a drug user" in general? That's what I've extrapolated but I could be totally wrong. I have only studied US law and not Korean law so . . . Very interesting conceptually but I don't agree with it.

[spread.livejournal.com]

[meccamputech.livejournal.com]

i will forever love whitney for this glorious moment

[esmiux.livejournal.com]

Wow he's being accused for smoking weed in his House in Atlanta, USA?

That is some serious BS....

SK why u like dis?????

I can't SK, I can't...

[vulgarchic.livejournal.com]

CL, such a cutie :D

[hpn88.livejournal.com]

wait...wtf. is it legal to arrest someone for smoking weed in another country? i mean, if they cared shouldn't american authorities be dealing with this?

[kawaiiairbender.livejournal.com]

yeah you can be charged for crimes even if they are legal in another country, so pretty sure you can be charged for things that are illegal in both.

[futekitwilight.livejournal.com]

Crown J is 31....surprised.

[kawaiiairbender.livejournal.com]

um how do they know that he smoked 5 times? I'm pretty sure it was more than that tbh

Also, how do they know lol did he upload pics to his site? take it into SK

lol idiot

[labobo93.livejournal.com]

Whatever, if anything this just made me a fan.

[831panda831.livejournal.com]

YOUR ARRESTING A KOREAN FOR SMOKING WEED OUTSIDE KOREA.

GO AHEAD AND ARREST LIKE 30% OF KOREANS WHO LIVE OVERSEAS NOW.

i cant believe this shit. this makes me so fucking pissed off!
he's not in your bloody country let it go.
omg so this is why that other guy was being arrested for gambling? like you can arrest people for gambling outside korea too now?

Do you know how many asians I see in casinos?
I'm sure tons of them are korean.

omg i freaking cant

[831panda831.livejournal.com]

I guess the only thing you can get high off of is paint and glue.

[defacetheessays.livejournal.com]

who only smokes 5 times? lolololol
exactly. five. times.

[kiku-cha8-8.livejournal.com]

I didn't know Psy also smoked mary j....

[sayufied.livejournal.com]

Mary Jane, she's my best friend ♫
She's always been good to me ♫
She come and take all my troubles away...Yeh ♫

[gunsandsmoke.livejournal.com]

should've just waited until he got to korea and then hopped on a plane to thailand for a weekend like i hear everyone else does! tsk

Jussayin'

[perfume.livejournal.com]

He should just move to Canada where it's legal... Oh wait, how did Korea arrest him in another country?

Re: Jussayin'

[kiwilovekiwi.livejournal.com]

JAMMIN ♫

[age-b.livejournal.com]

Would they be able then to arrest him for smoking in.. like.. the Netherlands? Since it's legal over here anyways...

But yeah... I honestly don't really care about people smoking weed.. as long as they are not total potheads... ._.

[age-b.livejournal.com]

should have read more than five comments.. .__. meh. but yeah.. still.. this is dumb...

[luvey.livejournal.com]

i know laws are different in other countries...but this is bullpocky.
it's also like the guy they arrested for gambling too much in another country. (yet i believe Korea has casinos but only for foreigners to use.)

[plantbottle.livejournal.com]

lmao. "bullpocky".

Wait..the casino's in Korea are only for foreigners? What?