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Back|Shen Boyang's anti-drug policy was questioned, Yang Zhi's reprinting of old articles triggered a debate
Shen Boyang's anti-drug policy was questioned, Yang Zhi's reprinting of old articles triggered a debate
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自由时报·1 hour ago·Politics·3 min read·🇨🇳China·

Shen Boyang's anti-drug policy was questioned, Yang Zhi's reprinting of old articles triggered a debate

Shen Boyang responded to questions about campus anti-drug policies and countered Yang Zhidou’s accusations about his past remarks

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  • Shen Boyang, the Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, proposed an anti-drug policy on campus, but was questioned by Kuomintang lawmaker Yang Zhidou about his past advocacy of equating drugs with drugs and providing drugs to drug users.
  • Shen Boyang responded that drugs and medicines are both “drug” in English, and suggested that Yang Zhidou look into methadone therapy, emphasizing that policies should be discussed based on facts.

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In 2014, Shen Boyang published an article in the "Thinking Forum" under the pseudonym "Pu Ma", discussing the definition of drugs and drugs and the community detoxification model.

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Shen Boyang, the Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, proposed "four anti-drug measures" at the education policy conference today (2nd). However, Kuomintang member Yang Zhidou discovered that Shen Boyang had written a letter in the "Think Forum" 12 years ago under the pseudonym "Pu Ma", "equating drugs with drugs." In this regard, when Shen Boyang was interviewed tonight, he not only taught on-site that drugs and medicines are called drugs in English, but also asked Yang Zhidou to google methadone therapy first.

Yang Zhidou posted on Facebook that he would continue to ask questions about Shen Boyang's education policy, and hoped that Shen Boyang would not ask A or B. Today, Shen Boyang proposed the "Four Anti-drug Measures on Campus", which include cutting off the source, taking courses, doing screenings, and medical referrals. It sounds normal, but in 2014, Shen Boyang used the pen name "Puma" in " "Think Forum" wrote an article to promote "Let's equate drugs with drugs!" and advocated that Taiwan could "build community centers to provide drug users with drugs and clean needles!" That year, New Taipei City wanted to screen for drugs during student health examinations to protect children, but Shen Boyang loudly opposed it, saying it was an "evil thing."

Yang Zhidou said that he only asked three questions. Drugs are equal to medicines. "Do you still think so? Do you still advocate providing drug users with drugs? Is drug screening on campus a bad thing or a policy?"

Shen Boyang went to the Normal University Night Market to sweep the streets in the evening. When the media asked Shen what he thought of Yang Zhidou's question, Shen Boyang also said that there is nothing to attack now. He had already turned to his articles published in 2014. He even suggested that he could go further back to 2007. He had many very secondary articles and see if they were interested in attacking them.

Shen Boyang also started English teaching on the spot. He said that drugs and medicines are both called drugs in English. "D-R-U-G is just one syllable. Congressman Yang can take a look at it when he goes back. Drugs and medicines are called drugs."

Shen Boyang said, Mesadon, beauty is beautiful beauty, sand is the sand of sand, winter is the winter of winter, Mesadon therapy is a therapy that is currently used in practice, so he is talking about the therapy that everyone is using, so he asked him to use Google, that is, open google.com.tw on the mobile phone, enter Mesadong, because he hopes that everyone can have some basic facts when discussing these things, that is, check first, and then make comments. It will be better for everyone to discuss things based on the basis.

Shen Boyang also pointed out that drugs must be prevented first, so they are determined not to let drugs enter the campus. "But are there people who have already taken drugs? Yes. So do people who take drugs want to detox? Yes." So what are the ways to detox? There are many, so he introduced various ways to detoxify. What’s the problem with this? It seems like there isn't one, right?

Shen Boyang also scoffed. He thought it was very strange to have classes here, but he raised so many questions and he answered them all once. Later, Shen Boyang also emphasized that he suggested that he could scroll forward a little further, and he would find many more exciting articles, which would give him the opportunity to express his political opinions. He thought it was not bad. He was very grateful to the congressman surnamed Yang.

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  • Shen Boyang, the Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, proposed an anti-drug policy on campus, but was questioned by Kuomintang lawmaker Yang Zhidou about his past advocacy of equating drugs with drugs and providing drugs to drug users.
  • Shen Boyang responded that drugs and medicines are both “drug” in English, and suggested that Yang Zhidou look into methadone therapy, emphasizing that policies should be discussed based on facts.

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