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  • OPINION

    Refugee workers

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/04/2024

    » Re: " 'Brain drain' follows military coup", (BP, April 8).

  • OPINION

    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.

  • OPINION

    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.

  • OPINION

    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.

  • OPINION

    Murder cover-up?

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/09/2023

    » Re: "The gangsters in police uniform", & "Graft on display", (BP, Sept 17).

  • OPINION

    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.

  • OPINION

    Failing drug policies

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/06/2022

    » Re: "Record billion meth pills seized in East, SE Asia last year: UN" (BP, May 30).

  • OPINION

    Are they high?

    News, Postbag, Published on 10/04/2019

    » I find it amazing that while there are factories in the countries north of us producing tens of millions of methamphetamine pills everyday for years, some of which are smuggled into Thailand, the Narcotics Control Board chooses to spend its time and energy raiding some small marijuana farm in Suphan Buri where they are apparently developing the byproducts of marijuana so they can be used in a healthful way.

  • OPINION

    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.

  • OPINION

    Asean must find solution to spiralling meth epidemic

    News, Published on 30/10/2018

    » Many Asean member state governments are no strangers to the social and security ramifications of the illicit drug trade. Indeed, many greater Mekong region states have been locked into a war against drugs, especially heroin, for decades. But even for these countries, the scale of previous illicit drug challenges is being overshadowed by the rapidly evolving methamphetamine crisis.

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