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PHILIPPINES’ BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION IMPOSES MARIJUANA BOND ON VISITING ONE DIRECTION BAND

One Direction Band (Photo: band's Instagram page)
One Direction Band (Photo: band’s Instagram page)

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – The Philippines’ Bureau of Immigration is requiring two members of the English-Irish band One Direction to post cash bonds of 200,000 pesos ($5,000 ) each, to be forfeited if they are caught using or promoting illegal drugs while in Manila for their concert this weekend.

Immigration spokeswoman Elaine Tan said Thursday that Immigration Commissioner Siegfred Mison required Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson to post the bond through their concert producer for their special work permits. The five-member band performs on March 21 and 22 at the Mall of Asia.

The Anti-Drugs Advocate group has called on the bureau to strictly scrutinize the band members’ permits following a video that circulated on the Internet of Malik and Tomlinson purportedly smoking marijuana.

When reached by The Adobo Chronicles for comment at London’s Heathrow Airport just before their flight to Manila, Malik and Tomlinson said “$5,000 is nothing compared to what we’re getting paid for our concert appearance, so it’s no big deal. It’s just a chunk of change.”

Tomlinson also assured their Filipino fans that they will not violate any ant-marijuana laws while in the Philippines. “We will not be smoking MJ before, during or after our concert. We will just bring enough supply of brownies to snack on. That way we will not get in trouble with the law for smoking MJ.”

The ‘brownies’ Tomlinson was referring to are the marijuana brownies — chocolate-flavored cookies infused with marijuana that are sold at Cannabis stores in the U.S. and Europe. There are no existing laws in the Philippines banning the eating of marijuana.

 

OPRAH GIVES AWAY FREE WEED TO HER LIVE TV SHOW AUDIENCE

imageLOS ANGELES, California  (The Adobo Chronicles) – Who could forget those live television moments when Oprah Winfrey gave away free cars and paid Australian trips to the live audience of her The Oprah Winfrey Show?  

The show ended in 2011 and Winfrey established her own television network soon thereafter -the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).

Today, Winfrey taped a new television special that is reminiscent of the defunct Oprah Show, complete with a live audience and a surprise give-away item.

During the show, Winfrey asked the audience members to look under their seat for their free gift.  They found a pack of weed (marijuana). “Everybody gets love,” she announced. Pandemonium ensued.

How times have changed.

The TV special airs on  April 1st on OWN. Click HERE to watch the video segment.

OKRA IS NOW ILLEGAL IN THE U.S.

imageAtlanta, Georgia (The Adobo Chronicles) – Okra, that bright green and slimy vegetable which is a main ingredient in the Filipino dish pinakbet and that popular fried delicacy in many U.S. southern states, has just been declared illegal by the American government.

Georgia police raided a retired Atlanta man’s garden last Wednesday after a helicopter crew with the Governor’s Task Force for Drug Suppression spotted suspicious-looking plants on the man’s property. A heavily-armed K9 unit arrived and discovered that the plants were, in fact, okra bushes.

“Okra looks a lot like marijuana (cannabis) plants so they have to be confiscated or destroyed and their owners prosecuted,” a spokesperson for the Georgia police told reporters.

Okra growers in California and other states were shocked at the new government policy and are planning a million march in Washington, D.C. sometime this month which happens to be Filipino American Heritage Month.

“No one can take away my pinakbet from me,” said Juan dela Cruz, an 88 year-old World War II Filipino veteran who lives in Delano, California.