A residential area in Ujung Batu, Butterworth, where drugs are sold openly and where addicts ‘hang out’ in broad daylight next to a primary school. – The Malaysian Insight pic, August 7, 2019.
THERE is a different kind of market which starts business early in the morning in Ujung Batu, Butterworth, which unlike the normal wet market, is causing major concerns for locals. For this market is a place where drugs are being bought and sold openly. Even more worrying is that both the traders and buyers are mostly teenagers. Among the drugs sold openly here are syabu , ganja and heroin.
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