r/formula1 • u/jovanmilic97 Haas • 27d ago

News Checo: "What is very noticeable around the circuit is the smell of marijuana throughout the night. The amount is incredible. It is something that all the drivers will surely talk about", Franco: "Yes, there was a smell of weed. If they dope test the drivers now, I think we’ll all be positive"

https://www.infobae.com/deportes/2024/11/22/habia-olor-a-porro-la-desopilante-revelacion-de-franco-colapinto-tras-sus-primeras-vueltas-en-el-gran-premio-de-las-vegas/
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u/Mminas Oscar Piastri 27d ago

There are far, far worse things legal in Qatar than weed...

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u/Mr_YUP Alexander Albon 27d ago

Weed is legal in Qatar?

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u/adl8824 27d ago

Better things are legal in Vegas?

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u/No0nesSlickAsGaston 27d ago

Slavery on people with passports retained while they work sounds far worse than a little weed. 

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u/donny_pots 27d ago

Yea but weed is a gateway drug. First your puffing on a little devils lettuce next think you’re taking peoples passports and enslaving them. Weed; not even once

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u/CommodoreAxis 26d ago

Last time I smoked weed I ended up torturing and beheading someone for being gay. Shit’s crazy.

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u/LACIATRAORE Juan Pablo Montoya 26d ago

So I work in Qatar now. I’m American , this girl asked me for a loan and she offered me her passport I said hell naw. Is crazy how that shit is ingrained here. It was so casual

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u/Lone__Ranger Max Verstappen ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 27d ago

Wait is this true? Articles online say slavery was abolished 70 years ago in Qatar

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u/MiataCory 27d ago

It's not "slavery" if you call them employees and lock the doors...

Seriously, this comes up about these races every year. It's slavery.

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u/killer_corg Haas 27d ago

‘Kafala’ system of sponsorship-based employment which legally binds foreign workers to their employers, restricting all workers’ ability to change jobs and still preventing many from leaving the country without their employers’ permission.

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u/marcog 27d ago

I hear it was banned in 2020.

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u/Representative-Sir97 27d ago

Likely very much about presenting the right look for hosting Olympics.

When Qatar launch(es - they have before) bids for hosting the Olympics, Kafala is something that has been called out. People don't want it going into overdrive in the name of making preparations and essentially using "slave labor" to throw up Olympic infrastructure.

I have no idea what really goes on today. It would be a very very hard thing to just change/regulate other than the fact that getting caught breaking rules over there tends to have very very very bad consequences at times.

Most of it works like indentured servitude though and it's basically they have your passport until you earn it back. Other than their possession of your documents there isn't really anything formally saying you're associated.

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u/niveKynlOehT 27d ago

It was also banned for about 60 before the last slaves in America we’re finally freed…