Chen Yixin questioned Shen Boyang’s drug remarks and stance change in 2014 and called for clarification

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan attended the "Military, Public, Educational, Police and Firefighters Support Association Founding Ceremony" on the 4th and accepted the mascot as a gift.

Shen Boyang wrote an article on the "Think Forum" in 2014, proposing arguments such as "drugs and medicines are equated." Chen Yixin, chairman of the KMT Cultural Communication Committee, criticized today (4th): How can drugs and medical drugs be simply equated? This statement seriously underestimates the addictiveness, danger and social harm of drugs. Now that Shen Boyang is running for mayor of Taipei, he has an even greater responsibility to tell the citizens clearly: Do they still agree with what he stood for in 2014 today?

Chen Yixin pointed out that Shen Boyang not only wrote, "First of all, equate drugs with medicines," he also said that "drugs are just drugs (Drugs)" and even proposed to establish a community center to "provide drug users with drugs and clean needles." Now faced with doubts, Shen Boyang responded by saying, "The English word for drugs and drugs is Drug." Chen Yixin asked, if we use the same drug in English, can medical drugs and drug abuse be equated?

Chen Yixin further pointed out that Shen Boyang is now running for mayor of Taipei, and the mayor controls education, police, health and social affairs resources. If a mayor still believes that "drugs and medicines are equated" and cannot even clearly explain to young people the difference between drug abuse and normal medical use, once this drug concept enters municipal decision-making, it may dilute young people's understanding of the harm of drugs and increase the risk of young people being exposed to and abusing drugs. Taipei citizens must not use the next generation as a drug policy experiment.

Chen Yixin said that Shen Boyang’s policy standards also need to be explained. In 2014, he strongly criticized New Taipei City for conducting drug urine screening on specific students, believing that it might lead to labeling. However, when he ran for mayor of Taipei in 2026, he proposed the "four anti-drug measures" on campus, but listed "introducing screening" as one of the policies. He opposed screening 12 years ago and advocated the introduction of screening 12 years later. Of course, the policy can be changed, but Shen Boyang has the responsibility to make it clear why the standards before and after are different.