There are two or three popular books on Americans who got stuck in Thai prisons for heroin. All went up to the Northern Hill Tribes, scored some pure product and sold it in the US for significant profits. They all smoked weed openly in country as the Thai government enforces its drug laws unevenly.
All the books mention to stay out of Singapore and Indonesia. Their laws keep even the hardcore smugglers away.
The Thai government would give these guys 25 years but in all cases, the King eventually granted them amnesty through a prisoner exchange program. These guys were told to plead guilty as the penalty is harsher if you don't plead this way.
All served a gruesome five years. The best book is a "Nightmare in Bangkok," by Andy Botts.
The OP is advocating for giving the death penalty to anyone selling marijuana. How many people have died from marijuana per capita in the US? Oh yeah, 0.0 per 100k.
Lots of people die from obesity and would have their lives improved if they ate healthier. Therefore, you must think it would be reasonable to execute all purveyors of fast food.
It is part of their larger drug policy of zero tolerance.
Guess what the result is, less drug use. It isn’t rocket science.
Now sure you could argue marijuana should be legal in Singapore, but that is a different question than if their policy is effective
The OP is advocating for giving the death penalty to anyone selling marijuana. How many people have died from marijuana per capita in the US? Oh yeah, 0.0 per 100k.
Lots of people die from obesity and would have their lives improved if they ate healthier. Therefore, you must think it would be reasonable to execute all purveyors of fast food.
It is part of their larger drug policy of zero tolerance.
Guess what the result is, less drug use. It isn’t rocket science.
Now sure you could argue marijuana should be legal in Singapore, but that is a different question than if their policy is effective
Personally I think weed should be legal but I think it causes mental illness so I dont use it/dont necessarily blame them. Plus I think its a little ridiculous for the UN/international community to tell a country what drugs they must allow.
He's an Indian. Of course they executed him. They'd never execute a white person or Singaporean Chinese. Singapore, the utopian, is racist AF. Definitely class-based. They import poor Filipinos as "helpers" and pay them less than $500 USD / month. $500 doesn't go far in a place where a 6 pack costs $30. Up until about 2021 you could find real estate ads with "NO INDIANS."
Oh, and Singaporean English is unintelligible. The worst version of English spoken on the planet.
The OP is advocating for giving the death penalty to anyone selling marijuana. How many people have died from marijuana per capita in the US? Oh yeah, 0.0 per 100k.
Lots of people die from obesity and would have their lives improved if they ate healthier. Therefore, you must think it would be reasonable to execute all purveyors of fast food.
It is part of their larger drug policy of zero tolerance.
Guess what the result is, less drug use. It isn’t rocket science.
Now sure you could argue marijuana should be legal in Singapore, but that is a different question than if their policy is effective
Singapore has more people than Oregon, a place with opposing approaches to drug use and dealing. Singapore executes about 3-4 people per year on drug charges and have about 10 drug overdose deaths each year. Meanwhile, Oregon, a state with 80% of the population had 1,069 drug overdose deaths in 2021. Would you rather go downtown Singapore City or downtown Portland?
It is part of their larger drug policy of zero tolerance.
Guess what the result is, less drug use. It isn’t rocket science.
Now sure you could argue marijuana should be legal in Singapore, but that is a different question than if their policy is effective
Singapore has more people than Oregon, a place with opposing approaches to drug use and dealing. Singapore executes about 3-4 people per year on drug charges and have about 10 drug overdose deaths each year. Meanwhile, Oregon, a state with 80% of the population had 1,069 drug overdose deaths in 2021. Would you rather go downtown Singapore City or downtown Portland?
Either way you're not gonna risk an OD unless you want to.
Why are you pleasuring yourself to such a morbid subject? Obviously you find it fun, what's that say about you? Who's guiltier, the haver or drugs or the fan of death?
Singapore has more people than Oregon, a place with opposing approaches to drug use and dealing. Singapore executes about 3-4 people per year on drug charges and have about 10 drug overdose deaths each year. Meanwhile, Oregon, a state with 80% of the population had 1,069 drug overdose deaths in 2021. Would you rather go downtown Singapore City or downtown Portland?
Either way you're not gonna risk an OD unless you want to.
Why are you pleasuring yourself to such a morbid subject? Obviously you find it fun, what's that say about you? Who's guiltier, the haver or drugs or the fan of death?
The fans of death are those who enjoy the lax drug laws in places like Oregon and Colorado. In Colorado we had more kids die from accidental exposure to fentanyl last year than all of the overdose and execution deaths in Singapore that year. Did those kids want to OD?
obviously execution isn't the answer, but harsher drug penalties would CLEARLY save lives. drug usage in the USA is at an all time high, but mental health is at an all time low
I agree. It is a huge problem. American white people consume most of the world's drugs. Facts.
I lived in Singapore and while the strict enforcement of laws generally has a positive impact on society (extremely low violent crime so it’s very safe), there seems to be a severe lack of proportionality for certain offenses, such as cannabis smuggling. And this guy wasn’t even responsible for directly smuggling, but “abetting.” Whenever you fly into Singapore, you’re told on the entry card that drug smuggling carries the death penalty, but it’s seriously time for the reform seen in neighboring countries. Definitely unfair what this man and his family had to go through, what he did should not be a capital offense.
I was in Singapore last week and paid $8.75 for a 6-pack.
May I ask where? Cheapest 6-packs I’d usually see would be around $20 and singles would be $4-6 at 7-11 or Cheers. Even a bottle of Smirnoff ($10-15 in US) was about $70.
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