High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule

I think this is great that this individual decided to tell her story on how she became involved in becoming an Ibiza Drug Mule and imprisoned in a Peru prison. Maybe it will help others to understand how easy it is to fall into a trap. I actually know someone (in this case a guy) that fell into a Mexican trap in the 70s and ended up in a Mexican prison for 7 years while on vacation for something he shouldn't have and this is more common and easy to happen than you think. Once in those places it is nearly impossible to get out. She was amazing how she was able to improve herself in the prison on her own to get released early. The trap is falling for the guy that recruited her in the first place - they always recruit someone innocent and the girl always falls for him and trusts anything he says. That is mistake #1. Sure she makes bad decisions but she was an easily manipulated subject.

This was a good documentary however like another reviewer I was a bit annoyed by McCollums "poor me - I'm a victim" aura. McCollum was a young girl with extremely questionable ethics who went off to Ibiza with a one-way ticket for a good time and consumption of copious amounts of drugs. She worked as a, er, hostess, got involved with bad people and in an attempt to maintain her drug fuelled goid time girl lifestyle choose to smuggle drugs. Maybe if she'd paid attention in school she might have known where Lima was. I hope she didn't get paid for this.

I will have to play that card. I am sorry. Upon learning that the narrator is the actual lucky perpetrator, it was extremely difficult not to wonder whether a person of color would have had the same luck in that same position. I guess not, considering that millions of them serve much longer prison sentences than Michaella, just for having been caught messing around with 'the wrong cigarette". How clearly privileged we are. When it comes to us it all boils down to 'we all have made dumb decisions, haven't we? Cut us some slack, will you?' When it comes to them, well, not quite the same measuring." That aside, the story was quite entertaining.

Pure and simple, this is a redemption story. If you didn't do anything STUPID when you were young perhaps you haven't really been living. This lady screwed up big time, realized it, paid the price and has successfully turned her life around. She worked very hard to do these things, including learning a new language and advocating for herself in a difficult situation to gain an early release from prison and then turned around to help others. When I was 17 I rolled my car in a blackout. I haven't had a drink for over 32 years and in the meantime developed medical devices that saved and/or improved the lives of millions of people (literally). I wonder how many of these people believe that everyone deserves a second chance.

A typical illiterate young girl ,dime a dozen ,who has a really hard time not including "kind of" in every single sentence ,who uses " youS" ,who has no idea where Lima is or even Peru. She belongs to this generation of irresponsible people and her involvement in this and her pregnancy attest to that . It is really a shame that such people can be released from prison after such a short time ,to go on destroying other people's lives . Such people who have absolutely nothing to offer to themselves or society should be made to rot in prison so that they will not be the reason for the deaths of young people.