DisainaM
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Thailand wird den Vorschlag eines europäischen Ministers, weiche Drogen freizugeben, wohl nicht folgen.
Wohl aber überlegt man sich, den Yabah Markt mit wirkungslosen Fälschungen zu überschwemmen.
Ev. sollen den Fälschungen sogar eine Substanz hinzugefügt werden, die die Konsumenten krank macht, und sie davon abhält, weitere Drogen zu nehmen.
Mit solchen Substanzen haben die USA bereits zahlreiche Marihuana Lieferungen verseucht.
WAR ON NARCOTICS
PM backs call to use drug funds
Seized assets will pay for police operations
Post reporters
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has seconded the idea to use assets seized from drug traffickers to finance drug-busting operations.
The prime minister said police needed the ``means'' to drive the anti-drug campaign and traffickers should be indirectly made to foot the bill.
Mr Thaksin was also receptive, albeit cautiously, to a suggestion for the government to churn out fake speed pills causing minor sickening effects such as nausea and vomiting to make them unattractive to buyers.
Sitha Thiwaree, secretary to the deputy defence minister who floated the idea, said the fake pills should be made available at low prices or even free of charge in a market-dumping tactic to destroy the mainstream drug network.
The prime minister said the suggestion was made ``in jest''. But it would not hurt for the Public Health Ministry to study the idea, he added.
Mr Thaksin also said it was worth considering rewarding informants who helped in drug busts. They should, for example, be given two baht for every speed pill seized.
He added that a senior leader of a European nation had suggested Thailand should legalise marijuana and other less serious drugs to draw people away from the really harmful ones.
Mr Thaksin stressed he did not intend to follow the advice but this was yet another idea to ponder.
Addressing a meeting to assess the national strategy to beat drug trafficking, Mr Thaksin backed the proposal to turn drug assets into financial resources.
``We'll use what we took from the traffickers to weed them out,'' he said.
He added, however, that the amount of cash to be channelled to police had yet to be determined.
The proposal was put forward by Pol Maj-Gen Vut Vithitanont, the Chiang Rai police commander.
He said tentatively 5% of the value of drug-generated assets impounded should be put into a fund and distributed to provincial police to finance drug raids.
He acknowledged the acute shortages in staff and equipment to ensure effective suppression. Police abusing the fund would be liable for punishment three times harsher.
Pol Maj-Gen Vut said that in Chiang Rai alone, 889 drug traders were on trial and the number nationwide was likely to top 50,000.
Peerapan Premaputi, the Anti Money-Laundering Office secretary-general, said a draft bill on the tapping of trafficking gains was awaiting cabinet consideration.
Mr Thaksin emphasised anti-drug cooperation on all levels. A fruitful drug suppression required categorising of the ``supplier side, the demand side and the potential demand group''.
Supplies entered the country largely from Burma and Laos through the common borders.
Police chief Pol Gen Sant Sarutanont said about 60,000 non-commissioned officers who obtained a bachelor's degree would be trained in drug-busting.
He vowed to root out rogue officers dealing in drugs.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/27Aug2002_news04.html
In der übrigen Thai-Presse wurden die Pläne sehr kritisch beäugt.
Tuesday 27 August, 2002
A 'new' idea
He reportedly made it in jest, but a coalition lawmaker caused a big stir by suggesting that the government produce cheap methamphetamines to force drug dealers out of business.
His suggestion, reportedly supported by Prime Minister Thaksin, was given prominent play by leading vernacular dailies this morning. But judging from the press reaction, the government gained nothing but sarcasm from headline writers.
Krungthep Turakij wondered whether it was a by-product of the ruling Thai Rak Thai party's ''think anew, act anew'' policy.
''A marketing strategy is now employed by the prime minister to solve the drug problem,'' the paper said in the opening paragraph of its main political story. ''Cheap methamphetamines may be produced by the government to compete with drug dealers.''
Sitha Tiwaree, a Thai Rak Thai MP for Bangkok, reportedly suggested yesterday that fake methamphetamines should be made available at low prices or even free of charge to destroy the drug network, which brings tens of millions of speed pills into the country each year.
Kom Chad Luek said the price of these fake methamphetamines could be as low as two baht (less than 5 cents). The street price of methamphetamines sold by drug peddlers is between 100 and 150 baht ($2.3-$3.4) per tablet.
Sitha also suggested that the fake methamphetamines might even contain substances that cause minor sickening effects such as nausea and vomitting.
''If drug users get sick after taking a fake pill it might deter them from taking any more drugs,'' he was quoted as saying by the paper.
Prime Minister Thaksin said Sitha made the proposal ''in jest''. Nonetheless, he said the Public Health Ministry should look into the pros and cons of the proposal.
There was no editorial comment on this controversial proposal this morning. Other big headline news involved the forthcoming military reshuffle and a mother who faces criminal charges for killing a rapist.
Matichon said Prime Minister Thaksin's close relatives were expected to be promoted to key positions in the military reshuffle, expected to be announced next month.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/eyetpress/
Wohl aber überlegt man sich, den Yabah Markt mit wirkungslosen Fälschungen zu überschwemmen.
Ev. sollen den Fälschungen sogar eine Substanz hinzugefügt werden, die die Konsumenten krank macht, und sie davon abhält, weitere Drogen zu nehmen.
Mit solchen Substanzen haben die USA bereits zahlreiche Marihuana Lieferungen verseucht.
WAR ON NARCOTICS
PM backs call to use drug funds
Seized assets will pay for police operations
Post reporters
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has seconded the idea to use assets seized from drug traffickers to finance drug-busting operations.
The prime minister said police needed the ``means'' to drive the anti-drug campaign and traffickers should be indirectly made to foot the bill.
Mr Thaksin was also receptive, albeit cautiously, to a suggestion for the government to churn out fake speed pills causing minor sickening effects such as nausea and vomiting to make them unattractive to buyers.
Sitha Thiwaree, secretary to the deputy defence minister who floated the idea, said the fake pills should be made available at low prices or even free of charge in a market-dumping tactic to destroy the mainstream drug network.
The prime minister said the suggestion was made ``in jest''. But it would not hurt for the Public Health Ministry to study the idea, he added.
Mr Thaksin also said it was worth considering rewarding informants who helped in drug busts. They should, for example, be given two baht for every speed pill seized.
He added that a senior leader of a European nation had suggested Thailand should legalise marijuana and other less serious drugs to draw people away from the really harmful ones.
Mr Thaksin stressed he did not intend to follow the advice but this was yet another idea to ponder.
Addressing a meeting to assess the national strategy to beat drug trafficking, Mr Thaksin backed the proposal to turn drug assets into financial resources.
``We'll use what we took from the traffickers to weed them out,'' he said.
He added, however, that the amount of cash to be channelled to police had yet to be determined.
The proposal was put forward by Pol Maj-Gen Vut Vithitanont, the Chiang Rai police commander.
He said tentatively 5% of the value of drug-generated assets impounded should be put into a fund and distributed to provincial police to finance drug raids.
He acknowledged the acute shortages in staff and equipment to ensure effective suppression. Police abusing the fund would be liable for punishment three times harsher.
Pol Maj-Gen Vut said that in Chiang Rai alone, 889 drug traders were on trial and the number nationwide was likely to top 50,000.
Peerapan Premaputi, the Anti Money-Laundering Office secretary-general, said a draft bill on the tapping of trafficking gains was awaiting cabinet consideration.
Mr Thaksin emphasised anti-drug cooperation on all levels. A fruitful drug suppression required categorising of the ``supplier side, the demand side and the potential demand group''.
Supplies entered the country largely from Burma and Laos through the common borders.
Police chief Pol Gen Sant Sarutanont said about 60,000 non-commissioned officers who obtained a bachelor's degree would be trained in drug-busting.
He vowed to root out rogue officers dealing in drugs.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/27Aug2002_news04.html
In der übrigen Thai-Presse wurden die Pläne sehr kritisch beäugt.
Tuesday 27 August, 2002
A 'new' idea
He reportedly made it in jest, but a coalition lawmaker caused a big stir by suggesting that the government produce cheap methamphetamines to force drug dealers out of business.
His suggestion, reportedly supported by Prime Minister Thaksin, was given prominent play by leading vernacular dailies this morning. But judging from the press reaction, the government gained nothing but sarcasm from headline writers.
Krungthep Turakij wondered whether it was a by-product of the ruling Thai Rak Thai party's ''think anew, act anew'' policy.
''A marketing strategy is now employed by the prime minister to solve the drug problem,'' the paper said in the opening paragraph of its main political story. ''Cheap methamphetamines may be produced by the government to compete with drug dealers.''
Sitha Tiwaree, a Thai Rak Thai MP for Bangkok, reportedly suggested yesterday that fake methamphetamines should be made available at low prices or even free of charge to destroy the drug network, which brings tens of millions of speed pills into the country each year.
Kom Chad Luek said the price of these fake methamphetamines could be as low as two baht (less than 5 cents). The street price of methamphetamines sold by drug peddlers is between 100 and 150 baht ($2.3-$3.4) per tablet.
Sitha also suggested that the fake methamphetamines might even contain substances that cause minor sickening effects such as nausea and vomitting.
''If drug users get sick after taking a fake pill it might deter them from taking any more drugs,'' he was quoted as saying by the paper.
Prime Minister Thaksin said Sitha made the proposal ''in jest''. Nonetheless, he said the Public Health Ministry should look into the pros and cons of the proposal.
There was no editorial comment on this controversial proposal this morning. Other big headline news involved the forthcoming military reshuffle and a mother who faces criminal charges for killing a rapist.
Matichon said Prime Minister Thaksin's close relatives were expected to be promoted to key positions in the military reshuffle, expected to be announced next month.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/eyetpress/
