Four busted for selling drugs to students in Bangkok

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Four busted for selling drugs to students in Bangkok

Image: daily news

BANGKOK:-- Drugs suppression officers have rounded up a Bangkok gang who they say were supplying amphetamines, Ya Ba and ketamine to students in the northern area of the city.

In a news conference Saturday they announced the arrest of apparent ringleader Chakrit Changbunchu, 29, who had previously been in jail for drugs offences, Tuangploy Duangdee, 22, Khomsan Sae-jew, 22, and Chanon Wongyi, 36, reports Daily News.

Also taken into evidence was a kilo of crystal meth, 40,000 Ya Ba tablets, 189 bottles of ketamine, two vehicles and five phones.

The arrests followed complaints from lecturers that a gang was selling drugs within the confines of a private university.

Narcotics Suppression Division agents set up a sting operation to buy 'ice' and Ya Ba worth 2.5 million baht from Chakrit and following this the enquiry was expanded to Soi Intamara 47 in Din Daeng where ketamine was found.

Varying drugs charges were laid against all those apprehended.

Source: Daily News

-- 2016-04-10

[SOTIRIOS]

...which will remain nameless....???

[HLover]

I do not like drug dealers that target kids.

[trogers]

Northern area of the city?

[inbangkok]

I do not like drug dealers that target kids.

University students are not kids.

[inbangkok]

If only they put half as much effort into solving violent crimes such as murder and rape. Thailand would be such a better place.

[HLover]

I do not like drug dealers that target kids.

University students are not kids.

Right, they are pixies with magic dust.

They also have decades of real life experience that shapes adults.

Thank you for your correction that had nothing to do with my dislike of drug dealers. Keep up the great skills.

[HLover]

If only they put half as much effort into solving violent crimes such as murder and rape. Thailand would be such a better place.

Catching drug dealers may reduce those violent crimes you mentioned.

[inbangkok]

If only they put half as much effort into solving violent crimes such as murder and rape. Thailand would be such a better place.

Catching drug dealers may reduce those violent crimes you mentioned.

Only in fairyland with the pixies and magic dust you speak of.

Anyone who still defends the drug war needs to be immediately written off and ignored for being a complete nut. Decades of failed policy and billions wasted. People like to get high......plain and simple.

[inbangkok]

I do not like drug dealers that target kids.

University students are not kids.

Right, they are pixies with magic dust.

They also have decades of real life experience that shapes adults.

Thank you for your correction that had nothing to do with my dislike of drug dealers. Keep up the great skills.

Nope, just not kids. Same age they can join the military or become cops. And no....please....YOU keep up the great skills.

[chrisinth]

If only they put half as much effort into solving violent crimes such as murder and rape. Thailand would be such a better place.

Catching drug dealers may reduce those violent crimes you mentioned.

Only in fairyland with the pixies and magic dust you speak of.

Anyone who still defends the drug war needs to be immediately written off and ignored for being a complete nut. Decades of failed policy and billions wasted. People like to get high......plain and simple.

So can I take it that you think it is OK to sell ice/meth to students?

Regardless if they are called children, students or young adults, pushing sh*t like this onto society deserves the full remit of the law.

And please save the everyone has a choice speeches, these drugs bite for life.

[inbangkok]

If only they put half as much effort into solving violent crimes such as murder and rape. Thailand would be such a better place.

Catching drug dealers may reduce those violent crimes you mentioned.

Only in fairyland with the pixies and magic dust you speak of.

Anyone who still defends the drug war needs to be immediately written off and ignored for being a complete nut. Decades of failed policy and billions wasted. People like to get high......plain and simple.

So can I take it that you think it is OK to sell ice/meth to students?

Regardless if they are called children, students or young adults, pushing sh*t like this onto society deserves the full remit of the law.

And please save the everyone has a choice speeches, these drugs bite for life.

No, you cannot make such an absurd claim about my beliefs. Please don't be so presumptuous. I am very, very against drugs. I don't even drink alcohol. However, I am smart enough to recognize failed policy when I see it. Jailing for life and executing drug dealers is not effective. Jailing drug users is even worse. What does work is education, and most importantly, treatment options. A few countries have already decriminalized drugs and implemented new treatment plans and the result was a massive decrease in violence and overdoses.

And drugs are a choice. I believe in personal responsibility. No one can "push" something onto society when society does not want it. Thats how the market works. It is not my position to tell others what they can and can't put into their own body. You know what else bites for life? A bad diet. Diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver, etc. Should we ban fast food?

And what about alcohol? The most dangerous drug of all. Should we ban that as well?

Edited April 13, 2016 by inbangkok

[dukeandduke]

Inbangkok, you had me until "alcohol is the most dangerous drug." Doctors don't recommend the equivalent of a glass of heroin or crystal meth each night.

I agree that education is the key, and we should not imprison users. However, I support strict sentencing for big-time dealers. One here was imprisoned and released.

[chrisinth]

Only in fairyland with the pixies and magic dust you speak of.

Anyone who still defends the drug war needs to be immediately written off and ignored for being a complete nut. Decades of failed policy and billions wasted. People like to get high......plain and simple.

So can I take it that you think it is OK to sell ice/meth to students?

Regardless if they are called children, students or young adults, pushing sh*t like this onto society deserves the full remit of the law.

And please save the everyone has a choice speeches, these drugs bite for life.

No, you cannot make such an absurd claim about my beliefs. Please don't be so presumptuous. I am very, very against drugs. I don't even drink alcohol. However, I am smart enough to recognize failed policy when I see it. Jailing for life and executing drug dealers is not effective. Jailing drug users is even worse. What does work is education, and most importantly, treatment options. A few countries have already decriminalized drugs and implemented new treatment plans and the result was a massive decrease in violence and overdoses.

And drugs are a choice. I believe in personal responsibility. No one can "push" something onto society when society does not want it. Thats how the market works. It is not my position to tell others what they can and can't put into their own body. You know what else bites for life? A bad diet. Diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver, etc. Should we ban fast food?

And what about alcohol? The most dangerous drug of all. Should we ban that as well?

At least we seem to have two things in common, both against drugs and neither of us drink.

Also there seems to be an agreement that 'the war on drugs' doesn't/hasn't/won't work.

Freedom of use for recreational drugs, IMO, will eventually happen even in countries like Thailand, but it will take possibly decades to happen. But, until that time happens, each country has written into it's laws, laws dictating drug abuse and the penalties that are associated with these laws. This is a separate issue to 'the war on drugs' as it has become known.

The police have been doing their job and in this case, have arrested 4 persons for selling drugs to students. Where there is a demand, there will be a supply, part of human nature, nothing will happen there. However, when these dealers are pushing highly addictive, dangerous man-made chemicals as they are in this case, they need to be stopped.

Christ, even ketamine, if used as a date-rape drug, needs to be removed from the picture.

Remove the issues of being underage and free from peer pressure, then yes, drugs are a choice. But IMO again, this OP is about persons providing highly addictive drugs into an environment driven by peer pressure.

But, these are only my views, my interpretation of the subject. I agree that every society should have laws against drug abuse/usage, but the laws need to be redefined/reshaped between recreational and hard drugs. This will however never get rid of the problem.

Alcohol and diets are in my opinion completely separate issues.

[inbangkok]

Only in fairyland with the pixies and magic dust you speak of.

Anyone who still defends the drug war needs to be immediately written off and ignored for being a complete nut. Decades of failed policy and billions wasted. People like to get high......plain and simple.

So can I take it that you think it is OK to sell ice/meth to students?

Regardless if they are called children, students or young adults, pushing sh*t like this onto society deserves the full remit of the law.

And please save the everyone has a choice speeches, these drugs bite for life.

No, you cannot make such an absurd claim about my beliefs. Please don't be so presumptuous. I am very, very against drugs. I don't even drink alcohol. However, I am smart enough to recognize failed policy when I see it. Jailing for life and executing drug dealers is not effective. Jailing drug users is even worse. What does work is education, and most importantly, treatment options. A few countries have already decriminalized drugs and implemented new treatment plans and the result was a massive decrease in violence and overdoses.

And drugs are a choice. I believe in personal responsibility. No one can "push" something onto society when society does not want it. Thats how the market works. It is not my position to tell others what they can and can't put into their own body. You know what else bites for life? A bad diet. Diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver, etc. Should we ban fast food?

And what about alcohol? The most dangerous drug of all. Should we ban that as well?

At least we seem to have two things in common, both against drugs and neither of us drink.

Also there seems to be an agreement that 'the war on drugs' doesn't/hasn't/won't work.

Freedom of use for recreational drugs, IMO, will eventually happen even in countries like Thailand, but it will take possibly decades to happen. But, until that time happens, each country has written into it's laws, laws dictating drug abuse and the penalties that are associated with these laws. This is a separate issue to 'the war on drugs' as it has become known.

The police have been doing their job and in this case, have arrested 4 persons for selling drugs to students. Where there is a demand, there will be a supply, part of human nature, nothing will happen there. However, when these dealers are pushing highly addictive, dangerous man-made chemicals as they are in this case, they need to be stopped.

Christ, even ketamine, if used as a date-rape drug, needs to be removed from the picture.

Remove the issues of being underage and free from peer pressure, then yes, drugs are a choice. But IMO again, this OP is about persons providing highly addictive drugs into an environment driven by peer pressure.

But, these are only my views, my interpretation of the subject. I agree that every society should have laws against drug abuse/usage, but the laws need to be redefined/reshaped between recreational and hard drugs. This will however never get rid of the problem.

Alcohol and diets are in my opinion completely separate issues.

I don't blame the police for doing their job. But my initial comment was that it would be nice if police always do their job. However, they tend to focus on drugs because that's where the promotions and credit seems to be. No one seems to care if they solve a rape case. No front page news.... No interviews..... No media parade. That was more to my point.

How do you consider alcohol a separate issue? Alcohol is a drug as well. Societies have simply made a choice that alcohol is an "acceptable" drug. This is strange considering all the death and destruction is causes.

If you consider diet a separate issue, I accept that. But I had a Dr tell me about 10 years ago that diet and obesity will be a far greater threat to public health then drugs (and turns out he was right). Very few people use drugs, where tons of people have chronic illnesses and die early from diet.

Edited April 13, 2016 by inbangkok

[inbangkok]

Inbangkok, you had me until "alcohol is the most dangerous drug." Doctors don't recommend the equivalent of a glass of heroin or crystal meth each night.

I agree that education is the key, and we should not imprison users. However, I support strict sentencing for big-time dealers. One here was imprisoned and released.

Doctors don't recommend general alcohol. SOME doctors recommend 4oz of wine a night (about 3-4 sips) and the science is super sketchy. Most doctors would still agree that zero alcohol is a much better option. Edited April 13, 2016 by inbangkok