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This isn’t a Thailand only problem but a worldwide problem. Drugs are a scourge to society; they cause problems and create crime. The profit from drugs goes to the most despicable people, the manufacturers. These people are the lowest scumbags that walk the earth; well they are just above pedophiles.
Drug trafficking has become increasingly popular with Thais trying to make some fast money in times of hardship. Everyday papers have stories of more people that have been caught selling drugs, most are just young kids.
The suppliers and manufacturers are using these people as they know they are desperate, the couriers or sellers are most at risk, they are the ones who are caught while the big players sit back and just find new sellers to push their pills.
Thailand has pretty harsh penalties when it comes to drugs; they still give out death sentences even though one hasn’t been carried out for a long time.
My stance on drugs is pretty simple; if people are stupid enough to traffic or take drugs then they deserve everything they get and more.
I personally believe that any person convicted of taking drugs for personal use should be sentenced to a minimum of 5 years jail.
A seller sentenced to life without parole.
A manufacturer or supplier, sentenced to death. To be carried out within a year of the conviction. Are these too harsh? I personally don’t think so.
I don’t agree with what Thailand did in 2003 in the Thaksin Shinawatra’s “War on Drugs.” Thailand has a very checkered past with problems with drugs.
In 2003 the former Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra issued a war on drugs. The government’s antidrug war had a shoot to kill policy in 2003, it resulted in more than 2,500 extrajudicial killings of suspected drug traffickers. The government denied direct involvement in 2,450 of the cases. They said that 50 people who had been killed by police were in self defence.
During this war on drugs many innocent people were killed. Such as the death of a 9 year old boy hit by bullets being sprayed by police, a 16 month old girl shot along with her mother, a pregnant women shot in front of her two young sons, an 8 year old boy who witnessed his parents being shot to death after they were returning home from a temple. This is just to name a few.
Now, a fact finding panel was set-up and they found that:
More than half the victims had no links to drugs at all.
Also this from January 2008:
The panel blamed the violence on a government “shoot-to-kill” policy based on flawed blacklists. But far from leading to the prosecutions of those involved, its findings have been buried. The outgoing interim prime minister, Surayud Chulanont, took office vowing to right Mr Thaksin’s wrongs. Yet, he said there was insufficient evidence to take legal action over the killings. It is easy to see why the tide has turned. Sunai Phasuk, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, a lobbying group, says that the panel’s original report named the politicians who egged on the gunmen. But after the PPP won last month’s elections, those names were omitted.
Now, that’s a little shocking, isn’t it? The government’s original report “named politicians who had egged on gunmen” but the current government has now omitted the names in the report.
The drug trade is flourishing here in Thailand and yesterday two men were shot dead by police in the northern part of Thailand near the Burma border. They had a 10 minute gun fight with police before losing out, they ahd an estimated 8.5 million Baht worth of drugs. Also a Laotian woman was arrested at another border check point trying to smuggle in 8,000 speed tablets, she will be looking at a possible death sentence but the maggots who employed her to courier the drugs are sitting safely at their home.
Drugs will never be rid from our world, but with extremely harsh penalties it will take some of the undesirables off the streets for a good period of time, sadly I am sure that there are many lined up to fill the shoes of people who are caught and jailed everyday here in Thailand.
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Yes, some are black mailed or claimed to be, if this is found to be true then obviously leniency is then needed to be brought into the sentencing.
Many tourist fall into the trap of buying from a police Narc. They buy the drug and then are busted only to be bribed if lucky. Otherwise they ahve a nice holiday in a crowded jail here in Thailand.
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With kilometers of coastlines that are permeable to drug smuggling, the trade is in boom every God-given day.
I think a more expedient action is to handicap the trade by slowing down the supply.
The resulting social problems of demand and usage are best addressed by social or civic groups, and government agencies mandated to eliminate those. But what law enforcers can do is to concentrate on the traffic of drug trade. This is what’s within their purview as law enforcers.
When you jail a user as much as you jail a pusher, chances are the pusher will just post bail and jump it. Not to mention that he will surely have an entourage of highly-paid lawyers.
Which brings us to the real problem of drugs in the region. It is a huge organized crime that is backed by billions of cash. The narco industry is simply colossal.
The most immediate thing to do for anti-narc units in Thailand is to bust and neutralize drug factories. If they launch a blitzkrieg campaign to burn these to the ground, so to speak, the supply part of the trade shall be handicapped.
Of course, the drug manufacturers will just scamper out and away, and might not even be caught, but the ingredients, paraphernalia, and manufacturing equipment will be destroyed.
Synthetic meth is what’s killing the youth of the region. It fries the brain to a crisp.
It is a synthetic Meth and really sends some of them off the rails. So many of the drugs come from over the border. There are drug labs in Thailand but most comes from Loas and Burma.
So much forest to cover and also officials turning a blind eye when the money is right.