Singapore hasn't managed its war on drugs? Lol what? Of course they have. They have managed their wars on a lot of things. Affordable housing, immigration, congestion, cultural division. Drugs was probably the easiest ones to manage..
It does work. It works extremely well. Extremely well. The problem is that if you don't actually want to win the war, it works poorly. As is evident in the US and many other first world nations.
No, fixing the problems that just letting it run rampant is whack a mole. You're spraying for cockroaches when you find them rather than fumigating the house.
It's okay, most people from leading countries of the world think their situation is the best and they need compassion for all the amazingly negative aspects of drug use. Junkies, aggression, organised crime involvement, etc. The truth is that your governments don't want to fix the problem and it's obviously snowballed out of their control. It's easier to lay down and admit defeat than actually tackle the problem when it's this far gone. Good thing places like Singapore never let it get to that point.
They've won the war on drugs. It's not even a contest which is better, the drug free environment is way better. You just have to experience both to realise.
Their own statistics show (by their definition of) drug abuse increasing in 2023 [0].
Even with all the repressive stance, death penalty, they still see an increase. That isn't what I would consider "working" for such harsh penalties.
> They've won the war on drugs. It's not even a contest which is better, the drug free environment is way better. You just have to experience both to realise.
There are absolutely no "drug free" environments in the world, absolutely none so your statement is impossible to assert in reality.
I prefer to live in a society where death penalties do not exist, even less for the cases of substance use/abuse.
It does work. It works extremely well. Extremely well. The problem is that if you don't actually want to win the war, it works poorly. As is evident in the US and many other first world nations.
No, fixing the problems that just letting it run rampant is whack a mole. You're spraying for cockroaches when you find them rather than fumigating the house.
It's okay, most people from leading countries of the world think their situation is the best and they need compassion for all the amazingly negative aspects of drug use. Junkies, aggression, organised crime involvement, etc. The truth is that your governments don't want to fix the problem and it's obviously snowballed out of their control. It's easier to lay down and admit defeat than actually tackle the problem when it's this far gone. Good thing places like Singapore never let it get to that point.
They've won the war on drugs. It's not even a contest which is better, the drug free environment is way better. You just have to experience both to realise.