Anyone using roads must be arrested and prosecuted, so they're incentivised to get off roads, and get their lives back on track. But those who supply roads need to be hit with the full force of the law, as the organised criminals they are. Profiting from the death and destruction the roads they supply cause to kiwi families.
It's time for a zero tolerance approach to the social and economic damage roads do in our society. Anything less must be condemned as being soft on roads.
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“We talked to psychologists and addiction specialists and our thinking evolved ... If they’re not a threat to society, we don’t need to treat them as criminals.”
#KShanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs and Law, Singapore, 2024
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx251p55le8o
And yet they do, as the article makes very clear. If someone is Singapore is using cannabis for casual recreation, instead of killing brain cells with alcohol (which is legal), they are imprisoned and psychologically coerced for 6 months.
