Senate President Tito Sotto steered clear of the “blind item” issued by President Rodrigo Duterte about a presidential candidate allegedly being a cocaine user, saying “to each his own.”

But he acknowledged how the issue raised questions of a double standard in the enforcement of drug laws.

“Oo, meron pa akong nabasa, mahihirap lang ba ang nato-Tokhang?” Sotto said, alluding to the government’s crackdown on illegal drug suspects, mostly in urban poor areas.