Philippines isn’t the only country that implements measures in the war on Drugs, in fact, many countries have their own ways to deal with drug-related issues in their countries.

China gives the cruelest punishments for people who are caught smuggling illegal drugs. These punishments include unveiled execution and other cruel punishments. These punishments were most evident in the years 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014.

The United Kingdom is almost the same as the Americas in which they follow America’s scheduling system. The scheduling system is where criminals are given jurisdictions based on the medical value and abuse value of the substance. For example, criminals caught using or selling substances that belong to class A can be charged on lifetime imprisonment, while those caught using or selling class B substances can be charged 14 years imprisonment.

In the country of Portugal, they decriminalized all drugs, including heroin and cocaine. The decriminalization had a great effect in which drug use among teenagers fell, but the use of illegal drugs among people ages 20-24 rose up.

In Uruguay, they legalized the use of Marijuana in terms of personal and sales to eliminate those major sources of illegal trades in the year 2012. As of today, the Uruguay government is working to establish regulations on drug use and sales.

Many countries have their own measures on how they regulate drug issues that are related to their country. Some of them are inhumane acts and some have ways that wouldn’t harm people. As long as these countries see that their ways would benefit their country and would preserve life, they probably would continue these ways for the years to come.