How much and what did Nguyen Tuong Van carry? 27/10/2005.
MEDIA STATEMENT BY THE SINGAPORE HIGH COMMISSION IN CANBERRA
he was caught in possession of 396.2 grams of diamorphine,
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It is a big deal!!?Foot note 11:To attract the death penalty, the person has to be in possession of more than 15g of heroin in its pure form, ie dia morphine. In its street form, the amount of heroin trafficked has to exceed the equivalent of over 3,700 heroin straws or over 1,200 times the average daily dose of a moderate drug abuser.
3.Let us do some maths.396 grams =97,680 heroin straws
.....................................................=31,680 times the average daily dose
.of a moderate drug abuser.
From the same link,Sg arrested 1785 abusers in 2003.
The 396 grams can feed all arrested abusers 17 days!!4.
a volume Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo said would have supplied more than 26,000 doses to drug addicts.