Expat junkies, dealer, get their fix then fall into net

"One by one, they made their way to the home of the woman who headed the drug syndicate. And, one after another, the waiting Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers nabbed them."


Caught in this sting:

- A British management consultant
- A British construction supervisor
- A Malaysian sports coach
- A Japanese director
- An American senior operations manager
- A Singaporean contractor

The syndicate allegedly catered "to well-heeled expatriates".

Funny, they all seem to be productive members of the Upper-Middle/Upper class. I thought drugs were supposed to turn you into some sort of sub-human beast, unable to work or function and live normally, and only able to think of your next fix, and how to get it. And willing to sell your family into slavery for it - which oddly sounds like another Social Ill [TM] that not too recently was still denounced and condemned for porentially leading to the downfall of society: gambling).


"[Saloons where liquor is served are responsible for] annually sending thousands of our youths to destruction, for corrupting politics, dissipating workmen's wages, leading astray 60,000 girls each year into lives of immorality and banishing children from school... Liquor is responsible for 19% of the divorces, 25% of the poverty, 25% of the insanity, 37% of the pauperism, 45% of child desertion, and 50% of the crime in this country... And this is a very conservative estimate" - the Anti-Saloon League


Hmm, I think we should make skydiving illegal in Singapore too, since it is too dangerous a recreational activity to be made available to the people.