The easier access to cannabis in neighbouring countries will pose challenges to keeping Singapore drug-free, Minister of Home Affairs and Law K. Shanmugam said on Thursday. Thailand became the first country in Asia to
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Due to the huge supply of methamphetamine in the region, the drug is becoming cheaper and more easily available, but Singapore's tough laws have kept the country safe. Mr Shanmugam also cited another Financial Times report earlier this year that opioids have shaved one year off the average male life expectancy in the US.
"It's... a philosophical question when people think when the state should put someone to death - should it or should it not? And it's bound with other philosophical questions which have real-life consequences, like - can you put someone to capital punishment even if you're convinced that a larger number of lives will be saved?"
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