Experts welcome recent drug law reforms

A group of 12 experts, including Prof Datuk Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman from the Centre of Excellence for Research on AIDS and Professor Dr Vicknasingam Kasinather of the Centre for Drug Research, said that they welcomed the government's effort to revise punitive laws.

"We also appreciate that this decision is rooted in science, evidence, and compliance with Human Rights treaties of the UN," the statement said. "We call for the government to work with us in deciding the threshold level of drugs which will separate a user from a dealer; the civil administrative procedures for those who are caught below such threshold level, the pathways to voluntary treatment and community based treatment, the role of the family and evidence based prevention methods. Mandatory rehabilitation for anyone caught with a small amount of drugs will not be effective and does not constitute decriminalisation.

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