Singapore is going to hang a man for possession of two lbs of weed

AndronETalksNews
Boing Boing
Here in Los Angeles I frequently get postcards in the mail offering free weed delivery to my house. Across the Pacific Ocean, in Singapore, a 41-year-old Omar Yacob Bamadhaj will be executed by hanging for having weed.
He was caught with two pounds of cannabis in the trunk of his father’s car as he was entering Singapore from Malaysia in 2018. He says his confession was forced because drug enforcement authorities threatened to hang his father and him.
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