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Cabinet to scrutinise draft marijuana bill
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 07/11/2018
» The Public Health Ministry will ask the cabinet next Tuesday to approve a draft bill which allows marijuana use for medical purposes as authorities demand measures to prevent possible abuse in the wake of its enactment.
B2.5bn meth, heroin seized
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 17/09/2018
» Four people from Tak province were arrested in Sukhothai's Muang district and 10 million methamphetamine pills and 35 kilogrammes of heroin seized from their vehicle on Sunday evening.
Cops seize huge B1.5bn meth haul
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 23/08/2018
» Police have seized more than 14 million methamphetamine pills worth 1.48 billion baht that were bound for neighbouring Malaysia and beyond, authorities said on Wednesday, in one of their biggest ever drug busts.
Pol Capt sacked for allegedly supplying drugs
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 19/06/2018
» A police captain at Sutthisan station in Bangkok was arrested on Monday night and later sacked for allegedly procuring illegal drugs for sale via mailed parcels.
36 foreigners detained in coordinated raids
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 17/05/2018
» Thirty-six foreign nationals and one Thai were detained during Tourist Police-led raids in 104 locations across the country in the early hours of Thursday.
Drug traffickers killed in checkpoint shoot-out
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 14/05/2018
» Police shot dead two men from Lampang province who opened fire when their pickup truck was stopped for a search in Wiang Pa Pao district of Chiang Rai early on Monday morning. Police found 5 million speed pills and 199 heroin bars in the vehicle.
Govt set to smoke out cannabis effect
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 11/05/2018
» A draft narcotics code drawn up by the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB), which will permit medical research on the effects of cannabis on humans, will be put before the cabinet next week.
Carfentanil a new drug to dread
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 08/05/2018
» A United Nations drug enforcement body has voiced concern about the possible smuggling of a powerful synthetic tranquiliser into Thailand and the Southeast Asian region after it was spread across the US and Europe using postal services.
11 drug plants 'churn out 20m pills a day'
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 09/04/2018
» The Narcotics Suppression Bureau admitted on Sunday that at least 11 drug manufacturing facilities were located "near Thailand's northern border" with a combined daily production capacity of more than 20 million pills.
Controversial ex-cop Salang dies in mall plunge
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 26/02/2018
» Former deputy national police chief Pol Gen Salang Bunnag died on Sunday after falling from the 7th floor of a shopping centre in Nonthaburi. He was 81.