KUALA LUMPUR: Waiting constantly for free handouts of food and personal items was what eventually turned Ma Kong Loi away from a life of drugs and wrongdoing.
Ma, 44, from Bentong, Pahang, started smoking at 14 while still in school. Soon after, he was involved in gangsterism and was expelled from school when he was 15. He was on marijuana by then.
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