Thread: 2+ meth tablets will be treated as drug trafficking under proposed new edict

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is ready to sign a ministerial edict, which will mean that an individual found in possession of more than one methamphetamine tablet will be treated as a drug trafficker, instead of an addict.


Once the edict is signed, it will be sent to the cabinet for approval and then published in the Royal Gazette prior to enforcement.


Anutin said that the reduction in the amount of meth tablets in the possession of an individual, from 15 or more to two or more, to be regarded as a trafficking offense has been discussed extensively among the agencies concerned.


Regarding the argument that the lower limit may result in the overcrowding of prisons, the public health minister said that such concerns are irrelevant, noting that the law must be made tougher to deal with the problem.


Nonetheless, he said the Ministry must find more money for the rehabilitation of drug addicts.


Under the current narcotics law, possession of more than 15 methamphetamine pills is regarded as possession with intent to traffic and the penalties range from four years to life imprisonment and/or a fine from 400,000 to 5,000,000 baht.


Those who possess fewer than 15 tablets are currently regarded as “patients”, and will be sent for rehabilitation.

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Originally Posted by misskit

noting that the law must be made tougher to deal with the problem.

It would be better for the police to stop taking bribes rather than making the law stricter. I know several cases where the police reduced the claimed amount in possession to below 15 following payment.

Originally Posted by Troy

It would be better for the police to stop taking bribes rather than making the law stricter. I know several cases where the police reduced the claimed amount in possession to below 15 following payment.

I guess bribing will have to be only one, off the hook, or a different crime that is a lesser degree...like bribing a law enforcement officer

This new law is vile. School kids will be at risk from this stupid law. 15 seems a better threshold.

Originally Posted by 39TG

This new law is vile. School kids will be at risk from this stupid law. 15 seems a better threshold.

You have go to be kidding me? School kids is exactly who they are trying to keep the drug from.

No. 3 or 4 pills isn't trafficking. Kids or anyone could easily buy that many for their own use.

The prisons in Thailand are an abomination but as an illustration of the Thai medieval disregard for human rights they cannot be bettered.
Savages, really, and quite stupid given that most users take more than one speed pill on average for a hit whether it is swallowed or smoked.So, the great Thai intellectual that is Anutiin is going to imprison all the tens of thousands of users that populate the country nationally.
Maybe he might do better to pass an edict that all police and armed forces personnel involved in drug trafficking will face a mandatory death sentence.

Originally Posted by aging one

You have go to be kidding me? School kids is exactly who they are trying to keep the drug from.

Christ you are so fucking naive.
My first score of speed was ten dexedrine from a Geylang dealer when I was 15. Moved onto methedrine which was a bigger buzz but the comedown was so heavy I quit using it. Couldn’t sleep and had trouble doing my homework. Used ganja instead which was much better.
All before I was 17.

^ any long term effects to report?

Yes, a pathological disdain for fucking idiots.

Imagine if you were a teacher who found a kid with 10 pills. The kid might even be a very minor supplier. Many teachers would destroy all the pills bar one so the kid and his family aren't exposed to the law or to the need to bribe the police. And then refer the kid to any suitable drug program. Many cops might even do the same.

I thought other countries were now moving more to a public health rather than policing approach in dealing with illicit drugs at the smallest end of the supply chain.

Er, which bit of Thailand is a backward, medieval, third world emerging country wi5hout any functioning rule of law worth diddly did you not understand,

Originally Posted by 39TG

Imagine if you were a teacher who found a kid with 10 pills. The kid might even be a very minor supplier. Many teachers would destroy all the pills bar one so the kid and his family aren't exposed to the law or to the need to bribe the police. And then refer the kid to any suitable drug program. Many cops might even do the same.

I thought other countries were now moving more to a public health rather than policing approach in dealing with illicit drugs at the smallest end of the supply chain.

Yes, but there is money to be made.