Kuala Lumpur: Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail today said that a new drug law will be tabled in Parliament by this year.
He said the new law — Drug and Substance Abuse (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act — will help reduce the population in prisons.
“When the new Bill is passed, the difference is that the end result would not be the prison, instead, it will be the rehabilitation centre,” Saifuddin told the Parliament.
He was responding to PKR’s Subang MP Wong Chen, who asked about the Ministry’s commitment to decriminalise minor drug offences in an effort to reduce the reprising population in the country.
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