The real blow came when I heard my charge, Article 229.1, part 2 in the Russian criminal code. I’d been accused of smuggling a significant amount of narcotics into the country. Significant amount? They’d found 0.2 grams in one cartridge, 0.5 in the other—a total of 0.7 grams, such little oil that it’d be gone as soon as the pens were warmed up.
