SINGAPORE - Singapore is waging a war against drugs, and thousands will suffer if the country does not put up a fight or loses the war, said Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam.
Mr Shanmugam, who is also Minister for Law, said he was delivering the ministerial statement as Singapore’s drug control policy has been criticised by individuals helping inmates to abuse the legal process. Citing examples of how relaxed drug possession laws in San Francisco and Oregon led to higher drug overdose deaths, Mr Shanmugam said such policies have a long-term impact on the next generation.After it was introduced for trafficking more than 1.2kg of opium in 1990, there was a 66 per cent reduction in the average net weight of opium trafficked in the four years that followed.
Mr Shanmugam added: “Drug abuse is not victimless, and all of these are caused by the drug traffickers whom people glorify.” Due to Singapore’s approach on drugs, he said the number of drug abusers arrested every year in Singapore has halved since the 1990s.up by 10 per cent to 3,101
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