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Increasingly liberal youth attitudes on drugs a key challenge for CNB: Faishal Ibrahim
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Minister of State for Home Affairs Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim noted that three in every five new drug abusers arrested last year were below 30.
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Justin Ong
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SINGAPORE - Against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving drug landscape, increasingly liberal attitudes - especially among youth - pose a key challenge for the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB), said Minister of State for Home Affairs Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim on Tuesday (June 1).
The global trends of cannabis legalisation and new psychoactive substances (NPS) are two other important threats, he said in a speech at CNB's annual workplan seminar held virtually this year.
