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Drug reform gets a push
News, Editorial, Published on 24/04/2018
» New plans for treatment of drug addicts and abusers are a welcome step on the way to badly needed drug reform. The steps announced last week by the chief of the prime ministers Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) may make it possible to begin rehabilitation instead of criminal treatment. As welcome as the new programme is, it is still only a tentative step towards what is needed. It is time for bold steps and a new outlook on the problem.
Tiny step in drug reform
News, Editorial, Published on 23/05/2018
» The government's approval of a minor regulation change in the anti-drugs law is a step in the right direction. Both the cabinet and the prime minister's Office of Narcotics Control Board announced last week they support the change, which will allow human testing of medical marijuana. Testing of possible positive use of cannabis has been under way for some time, but results are theoretical, based only on laboratory tests including on animals.
Drug smuggling 'on the rise'
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 07/09/2018
» Production of illicit drugs is increasing in neighbouring countries as producers gain access to "new chemicals" to replace precursors that have been blocked to them, and more drugs are being smuggled into Thailand, defence spokesman Kongcheep Tantrawanit said yesterday.
Defence takes on drug fight
News, Muhammad Ayub Pathan & Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 04/10/2018
» Pattani: The newly-appointed 4th Army Region commander has declared drug suppression and prevention in the deep South as a priority issue.
B15m for drug dealer bounties
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 10/04/2025
» The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) has approved a budget of 15 million baht to fund this year's bounty programme targeting 200 major drug traffickers.
Party cops drug case flak
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 28/06/2019
» The Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) has solid evidence to prove involvement of a former Seri Ruam Thai Party candidate in the Taiwanese drug network busted on June 15, said Pol Maj Gen Phonchai Charoenwong, deputy commissioner of the bureau.
Random searches yield drug hauls
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 01/07/2019
» KANCHANABURI: About 100,000 methamphetamine pills, or ya ba, were seized during a random search at a road checkpoint in Sangkhla Buri district on Sunday night, authorities said on Monday.
OCPB denies taking drug bribes
News, Yongyuth Phuphuangpet, Published on 08/07/2019
» The Office of the Consumer Protection Board (OCPB) denies its officials were involved with the production of weight-loss drugs linked to the death of a 30-year-old woman in Ang Thong last week as the drug producer claims.
Thamanat dismisses 'drug past' report
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/09/2019
» Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives Captain Thamanat Prompow has shrugged off a report by an Australian media outlet which challenged his accounts of his role in the smuggling of 3.2 kilogrammes of heroin that landed him in a Sydney jail in 1993.
Come clean on drug past
News, Editorial, Published on 11/09/2019
» Yesterday, as he denied an Australian press report on his previous conviction for heroin trafficking in Sydney in the 1990s, Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Capt Thamanat Prompow, also urged Thais not to dwell on the past and put the matter of his record to rest.