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BANGKOK — Despite some changes at the top, a quiet push to relax the country’s harsh drug laws continues.A year after the top justice official made a splash by declaring Thailand had lost the so-called War on Drugs and calling for more realistic narcotics policies, efforts to amend the laws
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There have been no reports of the spread of a kind of drug called “Flakka” or “zombie” in Thailand but narcotic suppression police throughout the country have been instructed to watch out for it, Pol Maj Gen Tanai Apichartseni, acting deputy commissioner of the Narcotics Suppresion Bureau (NSB) said on
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Metropolitan police seized 400 kilogrammes of Ice or crystal meth, one million methamphetamine pills and ketamine worth altogether about 600 million baht from two houses in Bang Sao Thong district in Samut Prakan province and in Bang Na Saturday night.Two men, identified as Pornchai Changkae and Kwan Banchongchart, were also
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NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A woman was charged with possession of drugs with intent to sell after police found 380 methamphetamine pills hidden inside her bra after she was taken from a bus terminal in Khon Buri district on Sunday morning, police said.Saichol Lothong, 26, described as an attractive female, was taken
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Police arrested two men and seized 400 kilograms of crystal meth or “ice” at a road checkpoint in Chiang Rai province late Monday night.Police said a sedan car and a pickup truck, which were apparently driven in a pair, suspiciously stopped before they reached the checkpoint in Tambon Thakor in
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A 43 year-old man from Phatthalung, Preecha “Ann” Utapala, was arrested in his house in Phuket with almost 4,000 amphetamine pills and one kilogram of meth amphetamine with an estimated market value of over 2 million Baht.With police reporting that drug trading volume in Phuket remains high, undercover police continue
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Police seized a total of 240,000 methamphitamine pills after a hot pursuit against a drug smuggling gang in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province early Sunday morning (Aug 20).Acting on a tipoff that a substantial amount of ya ba was to be smuggled across from Myanmar into Mae Sai
Read More Police from the Provincial Police Region 5 on Thursday (Aug 17) arrested two men with 4.1 million methamphetamine pills and 200 kilogrammes of ketamine from a house in Mae Sai district.The two were identified as Supachai Rungruang and Kittipong Phanchompu.Full story: thaipbs.or.thBy Thai PBS
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