Thailand legalising cannabis poses challenges to keeping Singapore drug-free: Shanmugam

Minister of Home Affairs and Law K. Shanmugam noted the difficulties in policing and controlling the use of cannabis. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY

"The freer availability of cannabis in Thailand, to which a lot of Singaporeans go and from where a lot of tourists come to Singapore, is going to present more challenges," said Mr Shanmugam on Malaysian news channel Astro Awani.

Asked about international criticism of Singapore's use of the death penalty, Mr Shanmugam pointed to the thousands of lives saved through the strict rules on drugs. In defending Singapore's strict approach to drugs, he cited a World Health Organisation report from August last year that said 500,000 people die each year due to drug use.Mr Shanmugam also cited United States' Centres for Disease Control and Prevention data, which said 100,000 people in the US died last year due to drug overdose.

"These are big numbers, but, you know, we focus on a few drug traffickers. But these hundreds of thousands of lives, are we not compassionate about them?" said Mr Shanmugam.

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