Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam also said the death penalty works as a serious deterrent against drug trafficking.
SINGAPORE: The freer availability of cannabis in Thailand will present more challenges, with many people travelling to and from Singapore, said Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam on Thursday .
If there is clear evidence of current use of drugs, Singapore authorities will take action, regardless of whether the consumption was in Singapore or overseas, the minister said in a Facebook post earlier on Thursday about national swimmers Joseph Schooling and Amanda Lim. Schooling and Lim had both confessed to taking cannabis overseas.
“But really, they are driven by the green rush, the desire to make money. It is a lucrative industry.” “But once it's in cookies, and once it’s in soft drinks, and once it’s in toothpaste, how do you protect breastfeeding mothers? How do you protect pregnant women? How do you protect young children? How do you police this? So, there are difficulties in controlling once you do this,” he added.Mr Shanmugam also responded to a question about Malaysia’s health ministry researching and looking into legalising medical marijuana, and how it could impact Singapore.
“We look at the research and we look at the science, and we decide for ourselves. And our laws don't always look like Malaysian laws, and our policies don't look like Malaysian policies. We diverge when we have to.”
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