Bt100 million assets seized after raids on drug networks

[MILT]

the usual kneejerk idiot replies, no wonder you all left your home countries where drugs are now being legalized and drug use is dropping because of it

"Marijuana" has been legalized in some states in the USA and or decriminalized in most states for the end users of the marijuana.

Unlicensed suppliers and or illegal suppliers ( traffickers ) are still considered fair game for the law enforcement officers and so are smugglers of marijuana from out side sources of marijuana obtained from illegal sources such as Mexico and Canada...etc.

The other recreational purpose drugs...such as ...Cocaine and Heroin and Crack Cocaine and Crystal Meth and other various forms of methamphetamines are still deemed illegal to consume or manufacture or supply.

It will be a long time before those other recreational drugs known as "hard drugs" will be legalized for consumption.....but hopefully the use of the recreational drugs will be decriminalized and dealt with in a more sensible social manner rather than subjecting the users to harsh law enforcement practices while law enforcement focuses on the illegal manufacture and supply of those deemed to be hard and addictive drugs and well known to be far more problematic recreational drugs...including Yaa Baa ( methamphetamines ) ...here in Thailand.

You would not want most of the classified to be harder recreational drugs readily accessible to the public at large because of their highly addictive qualities and the detrimental social ramifications of wide spread addictive drug use...if they were to be made legal and easily accessible to the public.

Marijauna???....... Well, even the government officials have come to realize that marijuana is the least harmful or least detrimental of any of the recreational substances out there taken for pleasure purposes and or social purposes.....but it is hard to change nearly one hundred years of mistaken government based drug enforcement policies and peoples thinking and their beliefs.

Slowly the change will come about.

Cheers

Just want add this to your great post. The Illegal drug business (not cannabis) fuels other activities that are detrimental to society at large and that is "Human Trafficking" and "Weapons". It is high time (no pun intended) that the illegal drug policies be updated to actually begin stemming the tide of drug abuse (educational equality)....(Jobs) and a better concentrated effort in weakening and eventually eliminating the drug cartels....as it is now the current policies are failing miserably.

[halloween]

It always surprises me that assets are confiscated prior to conviction in court since in theory they are innocent until proven guilty. Of course I think these people are incredibly stupid for not hiding the stuff better but they just seem to keep the stuff in their houses and apartments, etc. I suppose the good side of the police confiscating the stuff prior to trial and in conjunction with arrest is that the arrested don't have any assets to bribe the police or judges.

I'm sure they mean something like conservatory seizure, instead of confiscation, until the trial is finished.

In many jurisdictions, including the US and Oz, if you are suspected of illegal activity, your assets can be seized until you can prove how you legally obtained them. Like the guy with the flash undeclared house, this stuff is gone, shut the gate, goodnight Irene.

[derekwyoung]

Headline100mil Totaled reported assets 189.5Milion.. 89.5 Million missing

[toooa]

The hopelessness and disheveled look in the couple's eyes is priceless....

Yeah, they must be thinking " we paid for that gear, and now the cops are gonna sell it"

Give it a rest - theres no pleasing ****'s like you is there !

What's there to be pleased about? Cops can be pleased, because that's how they get paid. I don't see how anything has happened to please anyone else though....unless another's misfortune makes you happy... Don't understand why we should all cheer... think for yourself.... this is not a victory of any sort, just another example of a pointless waste of money.

[toooa]

At last, something is being done that the police neglected to do but could have done. Keep up this sort of work and get rid of those responsible for causing so much grieve. Let them rot in jail.

Not that it's measurable, but if it was, you might find that the police and legal system cause a whole lot more grief than the dealers... after all, the dealers are giving people what they want (win-win), the police are taking what they want (win-lose). The idea that the police are making things better is laughable... but there's a sucker born every day.

[jcisco]

the usual kneejerk idiot replies, no wonder you all left your home countries where drugs are now being legalized and drug use is dropping because of it

"Marijuana" has been legalized in some states in the USA and or decriminalized in most states for the end users of the marijuana.

Unlicensed suppliers and or illegal suppliers ( traffickers ) are still considered fair game for the law enforcement officers and so are smugglers of marijuana from out side sources of marijuana obtained from illegal sources such as Mexico and Canada...etc.

The other recreational purpose drugs...such as ...Cocaine and Heroin and Crack Cocaine and Crystal Meth and other various forms of methamphetamines are still deemed illegal to consume or manufacture or supply.

It will be a long time before those other recreational drugs known as "hard drugs" will be legalized for consumption.....but hopefully the use of the recreational drugs will be decriminalized and dealt with in a more sensible social manner rather than subjecting the users to harsh law enforcement practices while law enforcement focuses on the illegal manufacture and supply of those deemed to be hard and addictive drugs and well known to be far more problematic recreational drugs...including Yaa Baa ( methamphetamines ) ...here in Thailand.

You would not want most of the classified to be harder recreational drugs readily accessible to the public at large because of their highly addictive qualities and the detrimental social ramifications of wide spread addictive drug use...if they were to be made legal and easily accessible to the public.

Marijauna???....... Well, even the government officials have come to realize that marijuana is the least harmful or least detrimental of any of the recreational substances out there taken for pleasure purposes and or social purposes.....but it is hard to change nearly one hundred years of mistaken government based drug enforcement policies and peoples thinking and their beliefs.

Slowly the change will come about.

Cheers

Portugal is the first country that has decriminalized the use of all drugs, to positive results.^[13] Anyone caught with any type of drug in Portugal, if it is for personal consumption, will not be imprisoned. Spain and Italy have since followed Portugal's example.

Portugal decriminalized them 14 years ago I believe and the results were very good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_liberalization

Unfortunately I can't see it happening here. Thailand treats you as guilty even if you consumed the drugs in another country, because they insist on using drug tests to decide guilt, not actual possession.

Lets hope it becomes an international trend.

I have the feeling there would be social ramifications in the USA that no one can accurately predict if all the recreational drugs were to be legalized for public consumption.

More than likely there would be an increase in the use of all those available recreational drugs and all the more addiction and the associated social problems.

The nation will never know until they try but meantime the way it is now is bad enough that some things need to change while the first thing has to be the mentality of people concerning the use of hard drugs and how to handle drug addiction problems....amongst numerous other social problems caused by drug addiction.

Cheers

And the severe social problems being suffered now from rampant incarceration for what is classified as a victimless crime. Organization of criminals into gangs due to lucrative incomes that in the Americas have brought down and currently threatened governments in various countries. Mexico case in point being a battlefield over who supplies the massive American market. It is a war that Mexico is losing, just on life and death I'd hazard to say the death toll of innocents qualifies as social problem.

And this entire facilitation by the Great War on drugs has allowed criminal enterprises of unprecedented scale to develop. While on the ground it hasn't slowed demand which really doesn't appear to rise and fall so much. Destruction of families by custodial sentences generation after generation is not a social problem.

Tell me what part of the social problem isn't already apparent to you, or do you not recognise a little more than a casual link to the damage drugs can do and the excessive punishment and oppression policing causes. More lives have been destroyed by the law criminalisation drug taking more than drugs have destroyed a life.

[Basil B]

The agencies would raid a fifth drug network today, he said.

So, what is the news on the fifth raid?

Nothing like announcing we are coming to get you...

Me thinking...

egg on face

[nakhonandy]

Don't get the point of critisising the police here, they did there job and for a change hit the big people where it hurts, their pockets!

We can discuss laws such as in Portugal etc but it isn't the law here!

Well done to the police.

[rocketboybkk]

I bet the BIB involved and n this are loving dividing this lot us between themselves

They've hit the jackpot

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