Singapore Will Not Legalise Cannabis, Other Drugs, Says Desmond Lee
Amid a growing global trend by governments to decriminalise and legalise drugs, Singapore is standing firm that it will not go down that path.
Senior Minister of State (Home Affairs and National Development) Desmond Lee reinforced the country’s zero-tolerance stance against drugs at a United Nations (UN) event in Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday (March 15), speaking at the final negotiations during the 59th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. This meeting comes before April’s UN General Assembly Special Session, a platform for nations to debate the future of global drug policy and review a 10-year global plan started in 2009 against drugs.
In his speech, Mr Lee said decriminalising and legalising drugs “is not applicable to societies that are relatively drug-free”, such as Singapore, where the number of drug abusers arrested last year comprised less than 0.1 per cent of the population.
“It is also contrary to the international...
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