Landmark Drug Case in Singapore
If there has ever been a sign pointing to the progress cannabis has made as a medicine in the eyes of the world, it can be found in Singapore. Singapore is one of the strictest countries in the world in terms of drug possession and trafficking sentencing. Defendants are imprisoned for excessive periods of time for what many countries consider minor possession offenses, often caned in addition to this, and, in the case of “traffickers,” put to death. However, as described in the article below, a recent offender was spared a trafficking conviction based on his lawyer being able to prove the man’s medical need for the drug.
