Detected drug offences have risen by 21% in a single year.Well of course they have!The reduction of cannabis to a Class C drug has been the unmitigated disaster which all normal people had predicted.
Sentencing for possession of any class of drug is now typically dealt with by the imposition of an insignificant fine.
It is now time for us to deal with the illegal possession of drugs in the way that Singapore would - prison - combined in every case with VERY tough rehabilitation programmes upon release.
We might also benefit from Singaporean attitudes on how to deal with dealers - but only if we are taking the problem seriously, of course.
Drug abuse levels in zero tolerance Singapore? - To our eyes, unbelievably low.
Naturally, having a successful system where drugs are not permitted to wreck your nation brings a constant stream of bile and vitrepuse from our old friends at Amnesty (International.)
[Naturally, we are not permitted to act as Singapore has because of our membership of the EU, The Council of Ministers and for being a willing subscriber to the joke decisions of the European Courts System.]
LINKS: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510103&in_page_id=1770
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/01/singapore.execution/index.html
