If I were a tourist, I would boycott that place

[Etienne]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

I have a funny story. My wife's step brother (Who happens to be a cop), went down to Jamaca for vacation. In one of the markets there, he encountered a guy selling weed. So he decided to get a little bit for smoking back in the hotel. He handed the guy $20 and expected a small little bag. The guy goes around the corner, shoves a WHOLE SHOEBOX PACKED WITH WEED into his hands and runs off.

He got lucky. When I worked on a cruise ship, the scam in Jamaica (Ocho Rios, to be precise) was for the souvenir shop salesperson to sell weed to the pax, then sell them out to the cop five minutes later for a reward.

You'd have to be pretty dumb to try to take drugs back on a cruise ship, anyway... Although I guess they never search the pax as much as they search the crewmembers.