re: "Singapore hangs prisoner over 1kg of cannabis" (BP, April 26, 2023)
Dear editor,
A foundational principle of justice is that the law treat like acts alike. This entails that Singapore's law also require the execution of alcohol dealers, for alcohol is also a drug, one that is in fact more harmful to users and to society than cannabis. Basic justice requires, therefore, that Singapore make its criminal law consistent by criminalizing with the imposition of a death penalty the possession, use, production and trafficking of alcohol. Either that, or decriminalize the use, possession, production and sale of other equally or less harmful drugs, which is all of them.
It is unjust to treat one drug differently to others merely because it happens to be popular in society. That is crude prejudice, which is never a justifying reason for state interference in personal liberty.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on April 28, 2023, under the title "Ignoring liquor's ills" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2559001/prawits-watch-saga
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