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  • Singapore Must Conduct Scientific Study To Ascertain Threat Of Cannabis, In Light Of Increasing Legalisation In Other Countries

    Singapore Must Conduct Scientific Study To Ascertain Threat Of Cannabis, In Light Of Increasing Legalisation In Other Countries

    Hi guys, with many states and countries legalizing Cannabis, doesn’t it cast some doubts if Cannabis is really as dangerous as we are led to believe?

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    Is Singapore really that arrogant to believe that our punishment for Cannabis being death is straight and true with no shadow of a doubt and that all these other bigger countries is simply wrong.

    Wouldn’t it make sense to at the very least suspend the death penalty for Cannabis while conducting a scientific inquiry (maybe through NUS) to find out if Cannabis really is scientifically dangerous.

    Death penalty is something serious to leave it “maybe dangerous, maybe not dangerous.”

     

    Source: Mohamed Firdaus in Singapore Anti Death Penalty Campaign

  • Teenage Girl Who Fell To Death Was On Drugs

    Teenage Girl Who Fell To Death Was On Drugs

    About two weeks before she fell from her seventh-storey flat in Block 431, Bukit Panjang Ring Road, on Aug 19 last year, she told her father that she could see a monster and hear children crying in her room.

    Administrative worker Denyse Tan, 18, also appeared groggy, so her father asked her if she was on drugs. When she replied no, he believed her.

    A coroner’s inquiry into her death yesterday confirmed that she was on drugs, with State Coroner Marvin Bay saying  that methamphetamine, better known as Ice, was detected in her blood.

    Recording a verdict of misadventure, he found that her fall had occurred “in the wake of a likely drug-induced psychotic or delusional episode”.

    Mr Tan, a businessman, later told The New Paper: “I didn’t know Denyse had been abusing drugs. I would have called the CNB (Central Narcotics Bureau) immediately if I had known that she had taken drugs.

    “I would have done it out of love.”

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • 1.9Kg Of Cannabis Seized At Woodlands Checkpoint

    1.9Kg Of Cannabis Seized At Woodlands Checkpoint

    About 1.9kg of cannabis was seized at Woodlands Checkpoint on Tuesday (Jun 23), and two men have been arrested, said the Immigrant & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) and Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB).

    In a joint press release on Wednesday, the agencies said a Malaysian-registered motorcycle arrived for routine checks at about 6.45pm, driven by a 20-year-old male Malaysian. He was accompanied by a pillion rider, another 20-year-old male Malaysian.

    “In the course of checks, a checkpoint officer observed an unusual bulge under the motorcyclist’s clothes,” said the agencies, adding that further checks uncovered a total of four blocks of substances believed to be cannabis, “strapped to the subjects’ backs and groin areas”.

    The motorcyclist, the pillion rider and the blocks were handed over to the CNB, who discovered the blocks to be cannabis worth an estimated street value of over S$62,000.

    The agencies said that investigations on both suspects are still ongoing, and that under the Misuse of Drugs Act, those convicted of importing more than 500g of cannabis may face the death penalty.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • CNB Seizes 5 Kg Of Cannabis And Samurai Sword In Raid

    CNB Seizes 5 Kg Of Cannabis And Samurai Sword In Raid

    A crackdown on a suspected local drug dealer on Monday yielded a drug haul containing about 5kg of cannabis, as well as other drugs and weapons.

    On Monday afternoon, Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers went to the area around Geylang Lorong 37 to keep watch on a 34-year-old Singaporean man, the alleged drug trafficker. They suspected he would be receiving a fresh batch of cannabis.

    At about 4.20pm, a 45-year-old man, a suspected drug runner, was seen getting out of a van and placing a brown cardboard box beside a dustbin along Geylang Lorong 37, before leaving.

    Within a few moments, the suspected dealer arrived in a car and drove off with the box.

    His car was intercepted by CNB officers along Geylang Road and he was arrested on the spot.

    The box was found to contain five blocks of cannabis, weighing approximately 5kg in total.

    Also found in his car were other drugs including 164g of ‘Ice’, 137 ‘Ecstasy’ tablets, 101 Erimin-5 tablets, a digital weighing scale, drug paraphernalia and S$26,000 in cash. In addition, two samurai swords and a machete were also recovered in the suspect’s car.

    Officers also caught the suspected drug runner at a petrol kiosk around Ipoh Lane. A small packet of ‘Ice’ weighing approximately 1g was found in his van.

    The two men will be investigated for drug trafficking.

    Cannabis is a Class A controlled drug and those found to be trafficking more than 500g of it could face the death sentence.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com