This particular coffee shop in Geylang is on it's way to becoming one of those coffee shops in Amsterdam where druggies go to get their fix. Except that it'll never be legal.
In a two-hour stakeout, The New Paper discovered a bunch of drug peddlers brazenly setting up shop at a table in the rear of the coffee shop late at night, selling a deadly mix of illegal narcotics.
The pop-up dispensary was selling a whole range of prescription drugs such as codeine and valium, as well as hydrocodone, a semi-synthetic opioid formed from codeine, and K4, a synthetic variant of cannabis.
Known as new psychoactive substances (NPS), hydrocodone and K4 are designed to imitate illegal drugs such as cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy, which are listed as Class A controlled drugs by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB).
Of course, this doesn’t make NPS any less illegal and abusers have the misconception that NPS drugs are not addictive and are more difficult to detect.
Consumers or possessors of NPS drugs can face a jail term of up to 10 years and be fined $20,000, or both, while those who traffick, manufacture, import or export NPS drugs can be jailed for at least five years and given five strokes of the cane.
Photo/Video: The New Paper
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This particular coffee shop in Geylang is on it's way to becoming one of those coffee shops in Amsterdam where druggies go to get their fix. Except that it'll never be legal.
In a two-hour stakeout, The New Paper discovered a bunch of drug peddlers brazenly setting up shop at a table in the rear of the coffee shop late at night, selling a deadly mix of illegal narcotics.
The pop-up dispensary was selling a whole range of prescription drugs such as codeine and valium, as well as hydrocodone, a semi-synthetic opioid formed from codeine, and K4, a synthetic variant of cannabis.
Known as new psychoactive substances (NPS), hydrocodone and K4 are designed to imitate illegal drugs such as cannabis, cocaine and ecstasy, which are listed as Class A controlled drugs by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB).
Of course, this doesn’t make NPS any less illegal and abusers have the misconception that NPS drugs are not addictive and are more difficult to detect.
Consumers or possessors of NPS drugs can face a jail term of up to 10 years and be fined $20,000, or both, while those who traffick, manufacture, import or export NPS drugs can be jailed for at least five years and given five strokes of the cane.
Photo/Video: The New Paper
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