augieboo, It's called caning and if I recall correctly around 30 blows is approaching a fatal limit. Here's another bit of info about drugs in Singapore.
All nations should "follow the example of" Singapore, according to the UN International Narcotics Control Board's 1995 report. In Singapore, personal pot possession is decriminalized. Sure, you get a mandatory death sentence for being found in possession of over 500 grams of cannabis, but 15 to 499 grams gets you the cane, and "mandatory treatment."
Singapore has "decriminalized" drug use. Pot smokers and other illicit drug users are arrested, but are not given criminal status. Instead, they are put into mandatory "rehabilitation centers."
A 1989 article in the New York Times explained how first time users are put into "cold turkey" detoxification in spare rooms for a week. A week of recuperation from detoxification follows, plus a schedule of "paramilitary discipline." Next comes two weeks of "intensive physical training" and equally intensive "personal, group and family counseling."
Up to half are sent home after this program, and for two years they must report to the police for urine tests on a regular schedule, undergo counseling and be subjected to surprise urine tests.
The other half are put into a more stringent three-month course at another center, and then enter a four-month day-release program, followed by two years of urine tests and counseling.
Tellingly, 70% of the Singapore Central Narcotics Bureau's annual budget of $11 million is spent on treatment and rehabilitation - just like Canada! Singapore's tough stance on drugs hasn't made the country "drug free" yet. In fact, their "drug problem" just keeps getting bigger every year.
Not harsh enough
In October 1994, Singapore's Minister of Home Affairs stated that between 1990 and 1993, the total "addict" population in Singapore's five drug rehabilitation centers rose by 30 per cent to 7,400. By August 1994 the number had risen to 7,7001, by December 1994 the number was 8,700.2
"We need to take a tougher and a more drastic stand against drug addicts to deter them from relapsing" said the Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng.
Two weeks later, Singapore's two year "rehabilitation period" was doubled to four years.
Slavery was also introduced. Deputy Home Minister Datuk Ayob explained how "fully-rehabilitated addicts" would be sent to "work in companies or cottage industries set up in the centers." Those still undergoing rehabilitation would do farming and animal rearing.
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