"400,000 drug addicts have undergone medical treatments.

that's good then. What a load of cock.

I think this time Thailand truly does have a fighting chance in ASEAN. As the Hub of Comedy.

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

Your sooooo right !!!!!

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.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, oh help me, I'm splitting...

it's the way that they tell them, I guess

"Drug-free ASEAN in 3 years affirmed"

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 .....................

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!

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

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.

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 !

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.

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

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

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?

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?

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.

Hahahahahah!!!!... Please... Please... stop... I can't breath I'm laughing too hard.

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.

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

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.

History teaches us nothing. Some of us anyway.

did the dealers and users also confirm?

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.

Never happen, No country in the world can control drug use. As long as obscene proits to made!

You FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR

DEMAND people want to do drugs, Pot smokers want to and do smoke pot every day here in LOS those that want to snort Coke can find it and those that want the cheap stuff Meth and Ya Ba will also indulge just as we enjoy a cigarrette or a drink so will those that want to do drugs recreationally.

Why not just do what PORTUGAL did and decriminalize everything, you want to snort some coke NO PROBLEM IN PORTUGAL

You want to shoot up some HEROIN ? No problem in PORTUGAL they will even give you the syringes

You want to do some meth or amphetamines No problem in PORTUGAL you will not be going to hail or be prosecuted cos its decriminalized if you only have a 10 day supply.

And you know what ????

There drug problem has decreased MASSIVELY since this was introduced in 2000

THE TRUTH IS PEOPLE WANT TO DRINK ALCOHOL THEY WANT TO SMOKE CIGARETTES, SMOKE POT, SNORT COKE, TAKE ECSTACY SMOKE YA BA ETC and it dont matter if is legal or not people will still do it no matter what and when I see headlines like this i just shake my head realizing just how lost these people are.

DK

It would be better to spend the money on education and schools.

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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.

I dont use any drugs accept alcohol and asperin but anyway ..

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