Thai crackdown leads to creation of ‘new’ meth in Golden Triangle

[rooster59]

Thai crackdown leads to creation of ‘new’ meth in Golden Triangle

By The Nation

 

Thai soldiers and hill tribes people destroy an opium poppies field near an ethnic hill tribe valley on a mountain in Mae Taeng district, Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand, 06 December 2017./EPA-EFE/SONGMONG

 

Thailand’s suppression of precursor chemicals has prompted Taiwanese drug bosses to produce a new formula for methamphetamine in the Golden Triangle, a senior official said on Saturday.

 

Sirinya Sitthichai, secretary-general of the Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCD), said Taiwanese drug bosses had moved into the drug-production businesses in the Golden Triangle with new formula of meth created by their chemists after Thailand strictly banned the shipment of 20 precursor chemicals across borders.

 

Sirinya was speaking during a briefing for reporters on the drug situation in 2018.

 

The Golden Triangle straddling Thailand, Laos and Myanmar’s borders is notorious as the main production base of illegal drugs that are sold in Thailand. These nations have joined forces to set up the “Safe Mekong Coordination Centre” to jointly fight illegal drug smuggling along the Mekong River and the Golden Triangle.

 

Sirinya said he was told at a recent Safe Mekong meeting that some Taiwanese people had invested in drug making in the Golden Triangle.

 

“So the drug-making capacity from the area is still high. When we seized 10 million meth pills, they increased the production capacity to 20 million or 30 million,” Sirinya said.

He said that during the first three months of the 2018 fiscal year that started in October, Thai authorities seized 50 million meth pills. Ten of the seizures were in big shipments of more than a million pills, the ONCB chief added.

 

Another worrying trend is that the smuggling of heroin from the north of Thailand has been increasing, he added, saying that more heroin abuse has been detected in Bangkok and Chiang Mai.

 

He said the heroin is believed to come from the Golden Triangle because there are fewer than 2,000 rai (320 hectares) of poppies in Thailand while there are still more than 20,000 rai of poppies on the Myanmar side.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30336743

 

 

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[mok199]

I hope Thailand gets out in front of this evil drug ''meth''..super addictive and very very cheap to make...that means,more than a few dog and pony photo ops with a pie chart and some finger pointing...we need real treatment centers and some serious funding...

[BuaBS]

Wasn't a new formula for meth , the plot of Breaking Bad ?

So Walter White is in the Golden Triangle .

[Chris Lawrence]

Drug supply to the third world.

 

A heart breaking industry.

[isaanbanhou]

9 hours ago, BuaBS said:

Wasn't a new formula for meth , the plot of Breaking Bad ?

So Walter White is in the Golden Triangle .

Walter White is a fictional character.  

[BuaBS]

1 minute ago, isaanbanhou said:

Walter White is a fictional character.  

Duh !

[The Old Bull]

One definition of insanity is repeating the same thing and expecting a different result. If you really want to remove drug abuse from our society then stop chasing the suppliers it has been proven over and over not to work. You have to address the demand end , not as dramatic , no cops, no busts no guns and piles of money. This is the only thing that can work, no demand then no supply. 

[isaanbanhou]

16 minutes ago, BuaBS said:

Duh !

so is Homer Simpson

[mok199]

the new enemy is ''ice''. ...comparing yaba to ice is like comparing a leo to moonshine..im afraid the wizards in mental health Thailand ,will drop the ball on this one..STOP WASTING MONEY ON SUBS AND MILITARY HARDWARE,AND INVEST IN OUR CHILDRENS FUTUTRE...

[Colabamumbai]

8 hours ago, Chris Lawrence said:

Drug supply to the third world.

 

A heart breaking industry.

Big pharma is moving its oxycontin to Burma to get the population addicted, just saw a show on T.V. about it.

[lamyai3]

14 hours ago, rooster59 said:

a new formula for methamphetamine in the Golden Triangle

Heisenberg Blue? 

[neeray]

3 hours ago, mok199 said:

the new enemy is ''ice''. ...comparing yaba to ice is like comparing a leo to moonshine..im afraid the wizards in mental health Thailand ,will drop the ball on this one..STOP WASTING MONEY ON SUBS AND MILITARY HARDWARE,AND INVEST IN OUR CHILDRENS FUTUTRE...

YES mok199, I couldn't agree more !

Patents need to send this message to Prayut and the man with all the expensive watches. 

Correction: " parents "

Edited January 21, 2018 by neeray

[CLW]

Shift manpower and funds from chasing people who consume weed to battle that chemical shit.

[ThaiFelix]

History has shown that prohibition doesnt work, it only increases the problem.

 

Edited January 21, 2018 by ThaiFelix

[redbarron]

Legalization is the only way to get the criminal element out!

[Blue bruce]

Legalize it and collect taxes. No government in the the world will stop drug users and producers. Follow The laws of Portugal and crime will go down and tax income will go up 

[Colabamumbai]

9 hours ago, Blue bruce said:

Legalize it and collect taxes. No government in the the world will stop drug users and producers. Follow The laws of Portugal and crime will go down and tax income will go up 

I second that with 50 years experience in drug businesses.