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What do you think of the Singapore approach to drugs ?

What do you think of the Singapore approach to drugs ? - Lemmy.World

Singapore is an international trading hub. It’s also one of the healthiest and safest city in the world. It’s approach to drugs is controversial in the West. Recently, Billionaire Richard Branson urged Singapore to avoid executing drug dealers : The Government of Singapore replied this : > Our policies on drugs and the death penalty derive from our own experience. We are satisfied – as are the overwhelming majority of Singaporeans – that they work for us. >Nothing we have seen in the UK or in the West persuades us that adopting a permissive attitude towards drugs and a tolerant position on drug trafficking will increase human happiness. Where drug addiction is concerned, things have steadily worsened in the UK, while things have steadily improved in Singapore. https://www.mha.gov.sg/mediaroom/media-detail/ministry-of-home-affairs-response-to-sir-richard-branson-blog-post-on-10-october-2022/ [https://www.mha.gov.sg/mediaroom/media-detail/ministry-of-home-affairs-response-to-sir-richard-branson-blog-post-on-10-october-2022/] What do you guys think ?

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rumschlumpel Jan 17

Wide gulf between having a permissive attitude to drugs and going full draconian.

Also, IMO the issue with the west isn’t that they’re too soft, but that they don’t go all the way - even the Netherlands, which is known for letting people legally buy and sell cannabis, doesn’t actually allow growing cannabis. There’s no way to legally acquire cannabis for the sellers in NL, it’s incredibly stupid.

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BozeKnoflook

In perfect Dutch tradition of the law being quite wishy-washy even what you say is now not fully true anymore: some cities have signed onto a national experiment where the coffee shops are only allowed to purchase from a set of legally licensed growers.

So the current situation is that cannabis is illegal but there is officially an unofficial policy of tolerance, saying they only care about it selectively and most people can have and use it without worry. Most cannabis sellers have to grow it illegally or purchase it illegally, which is tolerated. And now some cannabis sellers, whose product still remains illegal, are only allowed to purchase from legally licensed growers. Who have a legal license to produce and sell a product that remains illegal.

It’s great to consider while high.

Source (in Dutch language): rijksoverheid.nl/…/experimenteerfase-van-het-expe… Other source: I live within 20 meters of a coffee shop and frequently partake. And bought a bunch right before the deadline to switch over to cannabis grown under license, because the coffee shops were dumping their old inventory while they could still sell it in its Schrodinger’s legal-state.

Experimenteerfase van het Experiment gesloten coffeeshopketen (wietexperiment) start in april

Vanaf 7 april 2025 mogen coffeeshops in gemeenten die deelnemen aan het wietexperiment alleen nog maar gereguleerde cannabis verkopen. Daar hebben de verantwoordelijk bewindspersonen, minister Van Weel (J&V) en staatssecretaris Karremans (VWS) de Kamer vandaag over geïnformeerd. Deze datum is definitief, zodat er een duidelijk perspectief is voor gemeenten, coffeeshophouders en telers.