The Kuomintang group questioned Shen Boyang's drug remarks, Wen Langdong criticized "addicted to drugs"

The Kuomintang group of the Legislative Yuan held a press conference this morning (3rd) "Shen Boyang wants to poison Taipei. Will Su Qiaohui get on board the poisonous ocean current?", pointing out that Shen Boyang, the Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, published an article in 2014 that "equated drugs with drugs." In this regard, famous mouthpiece Wen Langdong criticized that this is no longer "drug addiction", but "drug addiction".

Wen Langdong explained on Facebook that, in a nutshell, what you can eat regularly is food; what you should be careful to take when you are sick are medicines; what you must not touch are drugs. They are essentially a group of chemical substances, and the boundaries will change with social culture, scientific evidence, and legal policies. The above is all common sense. There are still alternative therapies in Taipei City, and there are still automatic needle service machines. If these drug policy ABCs are used to smear and spread rumors, some deep blue people believe it.

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Wen Langdong pointed out that Jiang Wanan wanted to smear Shen Boyang, but when questioned by KMT members, he didn't even know that he was the director of the poison prevention center. Shen Boyang's article 12 years ago was discussing what drugs are and what "addiction" is. Only by understanding the problem can we prescribe the right medicine. There is absolutely no saying that buying Gundam models is like a drug. Shen Boyang is a doctor of criminology, and drug prevention is his major. Jiang Wanan wants to please some deep blues, but in order to do so, he has regressed social concepts, and the social cost is borne by the whole people.

Wen Langdong said that some deep blue people think that drugs are bad and it is best to shoot all drug dealers and drug addicts. This idea is highly problematic. If you take one puff of poisonous cigarette cartridges, you will be shot. Then those who illegally sell cigarette cartridges will also illegally sell guns. The police's law enforcement firepower and intensity must also be comprehensively improved. Moreover, the grass and trees are all under attack, and a gunfight may occur at any time. It’s like turning Taipei into GTA7.

Wen Langdong took the drug war in the Philippines as an example. There is a lot of evidence showing that excessive law enforcement has accidentally killed many innocent people. The results are short-lived and the social cost is too high. Replacement therapy, such as methadol, is like quitting smoking and eating nicotine gum. It gradually replaces more harmful drugs with less harmful products. Taipei City United Hospital now has many clean needle vending machines. The idea behind them is simple: if you prohibit addicts from obtaining needles, they will reuse the same needles with multiple people, causing infectious diseases such as AIDS to become rampant and causing greater social costs.

Wen Langdong emphasized that the above is all common sense. There are still alternative therapies and automatic needle service machines in Taipei City. If these drug policy ABCs are used to smear and spread rumors, some deep blue people believe it. This is no longer "drug addiction", but "drug addiction".