Perhaps for the very vast majority of visitors to or citizens of Singapore who do not find themselves on the wrong side of this law, appreciate living in a comparitively drug free environment and all the crime that inevitably goes with it.

In a stirct intepretation of this strict law as placed on it previously in the thread, the hotel General Manager would equally be in posession wouldn't they? It is my understanding from from what has happenend in practise since the recent changes to the law, the courts take into consideration the circumstances whereas before the desth sentence was automatic.