But if you look at it from a different angle, if there is no buyer i doubt he would be producing that kinda quantity of drugs for sale also. This kinda things works both ways, demand and supplies. Why arent the drugs abusers being penalise as well? Prolly there are too much of them and it would be easier to penalise the producers?
Think again, cause when they buying stopped then production stops too!
Ice drug kingpin in Guangdong sentenced to death
BEIJING - A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death for making 12 tonnes of the drug ice, a local newspaper said on Tuesday. The court in the southern city of Guangzhou handed down the sentence to Chen Bingxi on Monday after a 22-month trial, convicting him of making, trafficking and shipping the drug and illegally crossing the border, the Beijing News said.
The official Xinhua news agency has described the case as "the world's largest" in the trade of ice, the street name for the crystallised form of methamphetamine that causes euphoria.
Under Chinese law, those found guilty of making or dealing 50 grams of ice can face capital punishment.
Local media said that 12 tonnes had been roughly the amount of all ice seized elsewhere in the world in 1999.
Chen, 50, masterminded and funded the ice production from 1998-1999 in a handbag factory in his native province of Guangdong in south China and in a pesticide factory in the northwestern region of Ningxia, the Beijing News said.
He fled to Thailand in 1999 the but was arrested by police in 2003, state media have said.
Chen and his wife, who was jailed by the court for 11 years for helping with the business, would appeal, the Beijing News said.
Two members of Chen's drug ring were also sentenced to death, but with a two-year reprieve, while another two received life imprisonment, Xinhua said on Tuesday.
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