Drug-using doc done in by his habit, not entrapment

He may have been a young doctor who had made good from a humble background — but recently-convicted Adrian Yeo was a habitual drug user and the actions used to nab him were strictly professional, said the Ministry for Home Affairs (MHA) in a statement on Friday.

The CNB are talking as though the "entrapment" tactic they use to nab drug offenders are justified and to a certain extent they are. Obviously, eliminitating of the growing and manufacturing of drugs is the best solution but that's not gonna happen.

But putting these small time offenders in the gallows using this tactic is a waste of limited resources that could have better been used to go for the big fishes instead. Now they are the people the CNB should be focusing on for without them, there'd be no one to supply all the small fishes.

Demand is nothing without supply and in this context, that is very positive. Nabbing these small time drug offenders is just the tip of the iceberg and "entrapment" only gives the impression they are doing something about the problem at large when in fact they are not doing much to stamp it out.