The hypocrisy of Singapore's huge investments in Burma, one of the world's biggest exporters of illegal drugs, while shrugging off Australia's requests to commute Van Nguyen's sentence to life imprisonment cannot be ignored,

I'm always concerned a bit about creative hypocrisy, because it's $49 billion of U.S. money on drugs that is acting as an engine drawing 60 percent of our own cocaine, marijuana, heroin coming through Mexico or adjoining Pacific or Caribbean waters.

Drugs is not the way to go.

The defendant had drugs in his system, drove in a manner consistent with drug use and ultimately, was in possession of drugs also. The people believe that the magistrate had sufficient evidence to believe the defendant was intoxicated at the time of his driving.

We'll see (how it is) when the drugs wear off (today),

My message wasn't, 'Don't use drugs, they're bad for you,' it was don't go out to parties where you are going to get drunk and lose your inhibitions and try drugs. Because once you try them, you will like them. Don't put yourself in that position.