News Forum - Thailand sets new meth possession limit to curb drug trade

[Thaiger]

Thailand Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew expressed confidence in a recently enacted limit on methamphetamine possession, aimed at crippling the operations of small-scale drug dealers. “I insist the law will be effective right after it’s issued.” The freshly minted regulation declares that an individual may possess no more than five methamphetamine pills without attracting criminal charges. … …

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[Fanta]

So the jails will be bursting at the seams and the RTP’s cash cow protected. TiT 

[Pinetree]

I predict a sharpe rise in drug arrests in other, near-by Asian States, some of whom have the Death Penalty for possession.  It will be no good at all when a dumb tourist ( and there are very many of those) say to, for example, a Singapore or Bali Judge, 'but Your Honor, it is legal in Thailand, where I was yesterday and I forgot I had this in my luggage'. 

[QECE]

Have to ask oneself, who has historically controlled the "illicit" drug trade as it applies to Thailand. 

If you've figured this out, you'll surely understand why the surface rhetoric is a three-ring circus as well as a farce.