PM Prayut stresses government’s drugs solving efforts

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PM stresses government’s drugs solving efforts

BANGKOK, 24 January 2015 (NNT) – The Prime Minister of Thailand emphasizes that the government will solve the problem of narcotics both domestically and internationally.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha stated in a national televised broadcast that anti-narcotics operations authorities have suppressed drugs networks both inside and outside of Thailand in targeted areas including urban communities, schools, and prisons.

The cabinet has approved 30 billion baht budget in the past two weeks to support the operations with Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam on drugs issue, and to support the second phase of the Safe Mekong operation plan that has been in effect from 12 January 2014 to 12 March 2015.

Operational coverage will include Thailand, China, Laos, and Myanmar while the Ministry of Interior, the Royal Thai Police, the Royal Thai Army, and the Royal Thai Navy are the main agencies from Thailand in this international cooperative effort.

He said that four countries have established the Safe Mekong Coordination Centre to integrate cooperative operations in the targeted areas along the Mekong River.

The Safe Mekong Coordination Centre will operate on six objectives, namely checkpoint setting, area searching, Mekong River patrolling, intelligence information gathering, target treating, and the search for the suspects, said the Prime Minister.


-- NNT 2015-01-24

[clockman]

No country in the world. Has solved the drug problem!

[ldiablo]

Federal spending in the United States alone totals around $15 billion annually. No country in the world will ever solve the drug problem and anyone who thinks they will are simply being foolish.

[godwish4love]

The only way to solve this drug problem is to bring the prices down to 7 baht per gram, you will see the dealers will forsake it for another business.

[Squeegee]

Blatant lying or chronic buffoonery?

He'll be claiming to be about to cure cancer and eradicate poverty next. Just as realistic.

More than anything, this is a sad indictment on what's been done to the Thai population that a 'politician' can get away with saying things like this.

[ChrisY1]

Unfortunately, many Thais believe this sort of rubbish........the people in power know that their basic educated flocks, accept this propaganda .......quite sad really.....

[The stuttering parrot]

And the hits just keep on coming!

Solved Ebola and now drugs!

However the new bike lanes are working out superman!

[EyesWideOpen]

First step is the easiest, just get the police to stop distributing drugs...... That will knock

a big hole in the drug trade right off the bat !!

[jcisco]

Having lived my entire life as most under the world wide narcotics prohibition, I'm still waiting for the upside of the whole thing. Seems that all this prohibition does is waste resources, destroys lives, fill prisons, isolates user, breeds corruption and feeds money to criminal enterprises. More lives have been destroyed by the creation of this illicit narcotics market and the harsh penalties imposed on societies than just about any thing else besides maybe plague.

[konying]

Sometimes can not help but wonder if people/person making the statement is somewhat mentally challenged or people/person making the statement thinks everyone else is mentally challenged.

Putting aside that no country as of yet managed to solve drug problem domestically, how exactly does he think he will solve it internationally?

[In the jungle]

What they did is approve a 30 Billion budget for the usual suspects to buy and distribute drugs (less the usual skim of course).

[Tokay]

No country in the world. Has solved the drug problem!

That is correct. However, the rest of the world is not Thailand. Thais and farang are very different the PM said. Thais eat rice, farang eat bread. So there ya go. Should be an easy problem to solve.

[yellowboat]

Education has worked in dealing with drugs. Law enforcement spending has only created pay days for those in government and those who supply government. And dare we say that some officials play both sides ?

[ColdSingha]

cant remove a demand problem by limiting supply

[EnzoRippo]

30 billions! OMG! Double sentence =>the drug problem will not disappear + corruption could increase.

A tip => don't catch the smallest fish bcz he will crowd the prisons, just use him for backtracking and get the big fishes.

[poweratradio]

Federal spending in the United States alone totals around $15 billion annually. No country in the world will ever solve the drug problem and anyone who thinks they will are simply being foolish.

You are correct but the continued solving of the problem creates employment.

[poweratradio]

Sometimes can not help but wonder if people/person making the statement is somewhat mentally challenged or people/person making the statement thinks everyone else is mentally challenged.

Putting aside that no country as of yet managed to solve drug problem domestically, how exactly does he think he will solve it internationally?

By poisoning the drugs and eliminating the users.

[gchurch259]

Speaking of Drugs, Why can't a 79 year old Farang with a passport buy Zyrtec ?? You ban it because the stupid young people use it to get high, I use it occasionally for my Sinus problems.

You can not legislate self discipline !!

If you want to stop drug use, execute the dealers and third time drug users, maybe the word will get around. Again self discipline problem !!

[Squeegee]

Speaking of Drugs, Why can't a 79 year old Farang with a passport buy Zyrtec ?? You ban it because the stupid young people use it to get high, I use it occasionally for my Sinus problems.

You can not legislate self discipline !!

If you want to stop drug use, execute the dealers and third time drug users, maybe the word will get around. Again self discipline problem !!

Executing people never stopped anything, you naive dreamer.

[Alwyn]

Speaking of Drugs, Why can't a 79 year old Farang with a passport buy Zyrtec ?? You ban it because the stupid young people use it to get high, I use it occasionally for my Sinus problems.

You can not legislate self discipline !!

If you want to stop drug use, execute the dealers and third time drug users, maybe the word will get around. Again self discipline problem !!

That's exactly what Thaksin did and everybody had a go at him for it! Thaksin or no Thaksin I agree with you

[Mr Somtam]

Just legalize the lot, tax it, next...

[wowfactor10]

Och great news so after his dope dealers crack down no more dope trading in Thailand ?

Only thing might happen is that dope prices going up...There for making dope dealers just richer.

how about declare dope legal and tax it maybe that will end the illegal trade ?

[Strangebrew]

1. I would suggest that marijuana be made legal and only farmers with government consent can grow it,or any person can grow 3 plants for personal use. Still keep sales illegal via person to sales such as pushers smuggling from outside country in to Thailand, mandatory 40 years hard time, Unless suspect gives up kingpin then 2 years if caught doing again life . Kingpins: arresting officers get 10% of asset's seized. Kingpins convicted get natural life in jail. If caught with guns while smuggling add 10 years to term. If operating a drug lab Death is only answer. By doing this you take out the benefit and profit,and harder to bribe way out of crime

2. Not only you keep prisons clear you help farmers by allowing them another crop to earn cash plus tourist's would flock here, with this new freedom.

[rickirs]

Thailand will spend $1 billion USD fighting and SOLVING the illicit drug industry covering the ASEAN-5 and China countries.

In comparison Mexico's cost of fighting the drug cartels in 2013 was almost $172.7 billion, almost one tenth (9.4%) of Mexico’s GDP or $1,430 per person! (ref. Global Peace Index 2014). That's about half of Thailand's total GDP! And we know how poorly Mexico's efforts have been to date - certainly the drug problems have not been SOLVED.

If there was a truth-o-meter on General Prayuth's statement, it would explode farang-style.

[djlest]

its not about solving a drug problem - its just about addressing the problem... Too much money in drugs! how do you think Thaksin bailed out the countries debt, big players all have their hands in the cookie jar.

[h90]

The only way to solve this drug problem is to bring the prices down to 7 baht per gram, you will see the dealers will forsake it for another business.

just sell it at the pharmacy, the drug mafia will die.

[h90]

1. I would suggest that marijuana be made legal and only farmers with government consent can grow it,or any person can grow 3 plants for personal use. Still keep sales illegal via person to sales such as pushers smuggling from outside country in to Thailand, mandatory 40 years hard time, Unless suspect gives up kingpin then 2 years if caught doing again life . Kingpins: arresting officers get 10% of asset's seized. Kingpins convicted get natural life in jail. If caught with guns while smuggling add 10 years to term. If operating a drug lab Death is only answer. By doing this you take out the benefit and profit,and harder to bribe way out of crime

2. Not only you keep prisons clear you help farmers by allowing them another crop to earn cash plus tourist's would flock here, with this new freedom.

kratom you can make the same.