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Drug-Free "Asean" In 3 Years Affirmed


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At least they are doing something about the situation. Much better than sitting at your keyboards making pointless comments.

Your sooooo right !!!!!

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Legalize it and tax it. Let people make their own life choices.

....and ensure cleaner products, and eliminate pushers, have counselors deal with abusers. Decriminalization of ALL drugs makes sense in a hundreds ways, but our sage lawmakers want only ONE legal recreational drug. It's their favored one, and the one they're getting paid (by its makers/dealers) to keep legal. You get ONE guess on which drug that is. Hint: it's Chalerm's drug of choice, though he calls it his 'inner-ear medicine'.

Ethanol, nicotine, caffeine .. that's at least three already, must be more that I can't think of offhand. The first two are on the hard end of the scale.

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"Drug-free ASEAN in 3 years affirmed"

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Then we'll see an end to prostitution and Thailand offering land plots to foreigners on Tourist Visas.

Yep - infact no visas required. All welcome, no crime, no drugs, no exploitation or corruption .....................cheesy.gifcheesy.gif

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At least they are doing something about the situation. Much better than sitting at your keyboards making pointless comments.

Your sooooo right !!!!!

What are they doing about the situation................... making pointless comments and undeliverable claims!

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thailand, hub of crackdowns

one solution: death penalty for every drug offence, also hospital workers who help steal medicine to make yaba

also include so hi-so's that finance the whole drug operations and let's not forget the boys in brown...

but hey, that will never happen

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Instead of an pragmatic approach, they follow a dream.

There will NEVER be a drug-free society, but what a government is supposed to do is to ensure hard drugs can be *prevented* as good as possible and that addicts (of whatever kind) get professional treatment and are socially reintegrated.

But that is a long way in ASEAN ..... too long to sell it to the press as some simple, populist one-liner, as all the ASEAN countries usually love to do it.

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Well this is in itself quite interesting, because I can see a few of the Asean countries actually ganging up on Thailand and Myanmar to do more to solve this issue. Problem is, the belief that the Thai police and armed forces are involved means that by leaning on the government they are leaning on the same organisation that they want to solve the problem. Could cause quite large ructions within Asean.

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Legalize it and tax it. Let people make their own life choices.

....and ensure cleaner products, and eliminate pushers, have counselors deal with abusers. Decriminalization of ALL drugs makes sense in a hundreds ways, but our sage lawmakers want only ONE legal recreational drug. It's their favored one, and the one they're getting paid (by its makers/dealers) to keep legal. You get ONE guess on which drug that is. Hint: it's Chalerm's drug of choice, though he calls it his 'inner-ear medicine'.

Not the complete true...There are several politicians in several countries in the big drug dealing and they want to keep the prices high.

If they are legal the profit is going down.

Yes; unfortunately: you hit the nail squarely on the head ! ! !

Also in Thailand, there are a number of REAL big-wigs with a huge interest in the illegal drugs-business ! ! If they would start eradication from the Top Down, maybe things would change !

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Let's see their plan of action before we ridicule this statement. With a new war on drugs, such as under the fugitive's watch, would certainly eradicate a lot of pushers, dealers, users and producers as well as a lot of innocent bystanders.

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Legalize it and tax it.

Let people make their own life choices.

absolutely, let us have our drugs, sex and gambling,

billions and billions of dollars, pounds, baht etc are poured down the drain in a futile attempt to control such past times

yet they all fail, we need some new revolutionary thought, its about time we 'matured' and moved on in such things

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All ASEAN countries are gonna have to drastically increase their budget on bullets to make this one happen.

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Here are two little factoids that lawmakers don't know or don't want to know:

>>>> prescription drugs cause more deaths annually than all illegal drugs combined.

>>>> Alcoholic drugs cause more harm and deaths than prescription and illegal drugs combined, plus it runs up insurance rates for (and commandeers hospital resources from) everyone else.

And alcohol is legal and taxed in most countries in the world. So how does that compare to your suggestion to legalize all narcotic drugs?

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Let's see their plan of action before we ridicule this statement. With a new war on drugs, such as under the fugitive's watch, would certainly eradicate a lot of pushers, dealers, users and producers as well as a lot of innocent bystanders.

Hey collateral damage is part of war. That is sick isn't it?
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Never happen, No country in the world can control drug use. As long as obscene proits to made!

Yes, and more importantly, as long as people want to get high. Given this has been the case since the dawn of human history, it isn't likely to stop.

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Let's see their plan of action before we ridicule this statement. With a new war on drugs, such as under the fugitive's watch, would certainly eradicate a lot of pushers, dealers, users and producers as well as a lot of innocent bystanders.

Hey collateral damage is part of war. That is sick isn't it?

Scary that a lot of people supported this war on drugs! Unbelievable actually.

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Stupidity and ignorance go hand in hand when it comes to politicians.

When it comes to drugs or addiction in general too many people are ignorant not just politicians.

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Drug-free ASEAN in 3 years affirmed

Obviously Chalerm isn't involved ... otherwise it would be 3 months.

Ahh, but he is pretty busy at the moment, with all those other crackdowns - and this would me his genius being spread regionally. I would have thought a man of his talent could manage it all in 6 months, but maybe ASEAN is a little too slow and behind on it. I'm sure the Singaporean government will continually look for recommendations from him.

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It's always the wording that is wrong. If they had said they want a drug free Asean in three years this statement would be fine.

However they make ridiculous claims and in three years this will be forgotten and another promise will replace it.

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This news item could well serve as the first sound bite/entry in The Nation's database of "claims and crimes." A new revolutionary technology designed to track announcements in news articles. The database could be used extensively by police to solve crimes, families of victims to know the status of their friends and loved ones, competing politicians seeking to document false claims and opposition bluster, and for still other politicians, academic..etc. to seize opportunity for a claim or business venture not already referenced in the database.

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