Govt agencies to incinerate drugs worth Bt7.4m

By The Nation

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and related agencies will burn Bt7.4 million worth of narcotics on Friday morning to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which falls on Sunday.

The drugs will be burned using an environmentally friendly incinerator at Ayutthaya's Bang Pa-in Industrial Estate.

FDA deputy secretary-gen?eral Pongpan Wongmanee said this was the 39th time that illic?it drugs had been burned. In the previous 38 times, 2,426 kilo?grams of drugs worth 94 billion had been destroyed. These drugs were seized in 3,833 cases, and included about 2,000kg of ya ba or metham?phetamine tablets worth Bt6.657 billion; 248kg of hero?in worth Bt620 million and 23kg of crystal meth worth Bt64.8 million. In addition to the drug haul in hand, the Narcotics Suppression Police will be bringing along 3,418kg of marijuana worth Bt17 mil?lion to be destroyed on Friday, Pongpan added.

Drug Suppression Deputy Commander Pol Maj-General Nares Nanthachoti said police had confiscated two or three times more crystal meth than usual recently, and most of it came from Afghanistan and Pakistan. He said since the drug was popular among high-income people and cost several thousand baht per gram, deal?ers had come up with innovate ways of smuggling it in. He added that the people caught and the drugs seized only cov?ered 10 per cent of the drug-trafficking situation, while 90 per cent of the traders got away and became rich from dealing narcotics.

Nares also reported that as of 2010, there were 300,000 drug addicts in Thailand, though the real figure was expected to be much more.

-- The Nation 2011-06-21

:jap: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and related agencies will burn Bt7.4 million worth of narcotics on Friday morning to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, which falls on Sunday.

I doubt that they're really burning drugs. I've seen it so many times, officers standing next to burninh heroin, pot, jaba, meth and other stuff.

Would make them pretty stoned, wouldn't it? Guess the drugs find their nway back to the streets somehow.........................:jap:.

Yup the smell alone wold be very toxic! am sure some talcum or whatever will be sacrificed

There will probably thousands of government officers sitting around the incinerator inhaling ..

There will probably thousands of government officers sitting around the incinerator inhaling ..

that would explain the way they think and make decisions

there is no guessing regarding ' drug's making there way back onto the street"

They will.They already have.The only thing this changes is that drug syndicate's will make more profit. Indeed they love this sort of nonsense.

The drug policy's are just so absurd.

This window dressing is really pathetic.but many of the authority's are one and the same- and so, we continue with this game.But who does it really fool?