Just out of curiosity–does anyone here visit the foreign prisoners in Taiwan? Donate to them with books, magazines, food items etc. I might take the piss out of them but the mind is a terrible thing to waste. Am I an elitist or an unapproachable sadhu clinging to Brahmin seclusion? 
No, I am someone who appreciates the rank and file, warts and all.
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AIT once asked a bunch of us to visit foreigners in prison. They said they stay in their cells 23.5h a day and would welcome any visit just to get out for a little while.
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I wouldn’t even know how to do that. I knew someone who had a ministry doing this, but I took one trip way back then, and apart from that no opportunities came up. He was saying that a lot of wardens don’t like christian groups visiting. So without some kind of official contact, or if you know the prisoner personally, there’s not any way I know of.
$100M of ketamine in Taoyuan
So much drug manufacturing in Taiwan
Seven locations lots of drugs and money $24M
300-square-meter factory in Taoyuan to make drugs
market value of more than $50M
31 kilograms of finished ketamine, 800 kilograms of semi-finished products for drug production, and 4,000 kilograms of various chemical raw materials for drug production
On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me…
…and a partridge in a pear tree.
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July 1 to August 20 summary
26 drug manufacturing factories
2,728 kilograms
13.24 million cash
5,353 people
Etc
I wonder what this means?
“3,516 people suspected of drug abuse.”
Maybe people that failed a drug test during a raid
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More pot growing…
People wearing shirts or hats with marijuana leaves on them.
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Taiwan is grappling with a full-blown crisis as “zombie drugs” sweep across the country, leaving devastation in their wake.
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These things are popular because weed is criminalized, and so people attempt to circumvent the law by using other substance that is much worse, and of course it takes a while for the law to catch up.
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Do you NEED substances to stay sane? If so… you have greater problems that cannot be solved by legalizing weed…
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Well, somehow people need substances, be it caffeine, alcohol, or tobacco, or weed. The need is there, and no shortage of people who will seek to profit from this. Criminalization is not the answer.
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Bullshit. Ten second YouTube clip, that all you got?
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Sounds like someone is gunning for a position at Taiwan News. 
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TaiwanPlus news
The ten minutes daily news clip was posted which had all kind of other news. I replaced it with the clip that only talks about this.