US President Joe Biden’s plan to downgrade marijuana, whether politically motivated or empathic, is a regressive step in the global fight against drugs, say Tan Chong Huat and Narayanan Ganapathy from Singapore’s National Council Against Drug Abuse.

SINGAPORE: The United States has formally moved to loosen restrictions on marijuana, with plans to reclassify it as a less harmful drug.
Under the move, marijuana – which has been classified since 1…