Just because you got high overseas, doesn’t mean you’ll be able to escape from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB)’s long drug-busting arm of the law. A young stoner learnt that the hard way when he was sent to serve time for culturally immersing himself in Amsterdam (if you know what we mean) and also for possessing cannabis at his home.
In case you don’t know, Singaporean citizens are not allowed at all to take drugs even outside of their own country — such is the government’s hardline stance on narcotics.
24-year-old tertiary student Trevor Soh Li Wen admitted to taking a cannabinol derivative in the Dutch capital city of Amsterdam (known as a haven for stoners) in May, The Straits Times reports.
What the CNB were really after was the weed he kept and consumed at his home in Woodlands. Somebody snitched on him, and when CNB officers raided his bedroom, they found an improvised bong as well as a container with at least 4.22g of vegetable matter containing cannabis.
In court, it was revealed that he would get his supply at around $500 for a brick of weed, and had started smoking it during his junior college days. Soh had also been smoking weed as a self-medication to cope with his depression.
While on holiday in Amsterdam, Soh smoked up every day for four days there. He was arrested two days after he returned to Singapore.
Soh has since been sent to six months in jail, avoiding the maximum sentence of 10 years and a fine of up to $20,000.
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