• News & article

  Cannabis rules must make sense

  Editorial, Published on 07/04/2024

  » It's quite a relief that Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew is ruling out the recriminalisation of cannabis.

• News & article

  Review 5-pill drug limit

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 15/02/2024

  » In response to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin's pledge to review a policy that lowers the punishment for ya ba users found to have no more than five methamphetamine pills, the Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) said it is considering reducing the limit to three.

• News & article

  Better weed bill needed

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 13/01/2024

  » All eyes are on the Public Health Ministry -- which has pushed for a tough draft bill on cannabis and hemp control. The bill was up for a public hearing on Friday.

• News & article

  The fight against drugs

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 19/09/2023

  » It should be good news that the Srettha government will make the fight against narcotics part of the national agenda. Announced on Sunday by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, the news has garnered mixed reactions, especially among human rights activists, which is understandable.

• News & article

  Building on Apec pluses

  Oped, Editorial, Published on 24/11/2022

  » The Apec summit gave Thailand and other Apec members an opportunity to strengthen their partnerships, with a number of cooperation deals clinched.

• News & article

  Time for drug policy rethink

  News, Editorial, Published on 17/01/2021

  » The deaths of nine people last week from the overdose of a deadly "new" drug -- a combination of heroin, ketamine, methamphetamine and sleep medication -- is a shock.

• News & article

  Why futile wars on drugs persist

  News, Editorial, Published on 31/05/2020

  » This month, two international rights advocate groups highlighted "drug war" killings as a result of the brutal campaign initiated in 2016 by Rodrigo Duterte, the maverick president of the Philippines.

• News & article

  No sign of drug reform

  News, Editorial, Published on 16/01/2019

  » The Ministry of Defence has weighed in on drug trafficking but in the most familiar manner. Briefed by his boss, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsuwon, ministry spokesman Kongcheep Tantravanich repeated an official litany that is no longer impressive. In short, drug seizures are up, drug arrests continue to increase. As a reporter for this newspaper wrote, this combination of factors "will pave the way for more arrests".

• News & article

  Double-faced drugs policy

  News, Editorial, Published on 20/11/2018

  » The government has become somewhat schizophrenic about its policies on banned drugs. It has sent mixed signals about the path to legalising medical marijuana. Providing a programme leading to the needed reform of law on illicit drugs is even less clear. In just the past few weeks, senior officials and ministers have indicated, rather, that they expect to renew and redoubled the "war on drugs" policies that have failed so badly.

• News & article

  Myanmar's shirked duty

  News, Editorial, Published on 08/10/2018

  » Last Thursday, police arrested two men in Ayutthaya for possession of drugs. They were driving a pickup with 700 one-kilogramme bags of crystal methamphetamine, a so-called recreational drug without medical or social value.

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