Yesterday, the pensioners moved their exercise ground to the central square, where the local police were holding an exhibition to mark International Anti-Drugs Day, on June 26.
While local policemen and women handed out print-outs of articles related to drugs in the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, a few hundred local people, monks in dark-red cassocks in Lhasa visited the open pictorial exhibition that told people of the harm drugs have had upon human society and individuals.
Narcotics cases have been rising slowly in the Tibet Autonomous Region since local police cracked the first case in 1986.
Drug addicts in Tibet are migrant workers from inland areas and local residents.
A billboard at the exhibition showed that regional police cracked 66 cases related to drug smuggling, sales and transport, a 4.8 per cent increase over the number in 1999.
In the same year, the police confiscated 613.66 grams of heroin and 9,490.2 grams of marijuana. Eighty-two men and 12 women were detained.
(People’s Daily 06/25/2001)
