Cannabis

Yasin’s life sentence over cannabis offences reveals flaw in drug dependence decriminalisation: experts

Legal and health experts opine imprisonment does not help drug dependants, call for improvements to amendment introduced earlier this year

Singer Yasin gets life imprisonment, caning for cannabis-linked offences

Musician says it is ‘a dark day’ for him as Shah Alam High Court judge hands down sentence after finding him guilty of possessing, cultivating, self-administering marijuana

Businessman guilty of trafficking cannabis dodges gallows, gets 30 years in prison

Apex court commutes his death sentence to imprisonment, 12 strokes of the cane after he was previously convicted of trafficking almost 10kg of compressed marijuana

Nicki Minaj shortly detained at Amsterdam airport for allegedly bringing joints

Authorities, without naming detainee, say ‘41-year-old American woman’ was released after paying ‘reasonable’ fine following rapper posting about incident on her socials

Ex-university student gets 30 year’s jail, whipping for trafficking 2kg of cannabis

A former university student was sentenced to 30 years in jail and 12 strokes of the cane by the high court here today for trafficking nearly two kg of cannabis four years ago.

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