Items tagged with thailand
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| Human Rights and drug policy [01.01.2020] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) has always believed in the need to find global answers to global problems, been a strong defender of multilateralis... |
| From the Philippines to Indonesia and Afghanistan, Asia’s brutal drug policies have failed [20.02.2019] | The so-called “war on drugs” has persisted without an honest assessment by governments of its effectiveness, nor its impacts, despite UN reports show... |
| Amnesty underway for users, possessors of cannabis [15.02.2019] | The Drug Committee in Thailand approved three draft legislations for amnesty. If these drafts become law, even possessors of cannabis, who are not pa... |
| Methamphetamine use in Myanmar, Thailand, and Southern China: assessing practices, reducing harms [15.02.2019] | Over the past decade, methamphetamine use has grown more popular in Myanmar, Thailand and Southern China. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with... |
| Monopoly of medical cannabis not in public interest: Experts [08.01.2019] | Authorities in Thailand overseeing a flood of patents for medical cannabis must consider the public interest, otherwise a commercial monopoly of the ... |
| Farmers giddy over new medical marijuana law [26.12.2018] | Thai farmers welcomed a new law allowing cultivation and use of marijuana for medical purposes, in an Asian first that promises an economic bonanza b... |
| Thailand moves one step closer to legal marijuana [24.11.2018] | Thailand is moving closer to getting medical marijuana legalised, as the bill on the issue has already made headway in the legislative process. The N... |
| Pot approved for research, medical use [14.11.2018] | The cabinet approved a draft amendment to the 1979 Narcotics Act to legalise cannabis for medical and research purposes in Thailand. However, all use... |
| Green gold rush: Thailand, Malaysia race to legalise medical marijuana [12.11.2018] | Asia has the toughest penalties against drug use and trafficking but the legal landscape is shifting in several countries where cannabis once deemed ... |
| Time for a truce in Asia’s war on drugs [03.11.2018] | Global attitudes on narcotic drugs are changing, but the shift has come too late for those caught up in Asia’s past decade of misguided and often let... |
| Govt pressed for new law on marijuana and kratom [01.10.2018] | Academics and medical practitioners are pushing for swift legislative reform to legalise the medical use of marijuana and kratom, saying current laws... |
| Reform of drug laws begins as bill passes first reading [17.06.2018] | The National Legislative Assembly passed by a landslide vote the three narcotics control policy bills, which are an effort by authorities to reform o... |
| Drug reform gets a push [21.04.2018] | New plans for treatment of drug addicts and abusers are a welcome step on the way to badly needed drug reform. The steps announced last week by the c... |
| The War on Drugs in Southeast Asia [29.01.2018] | While the world’s attention has been focused on the carnage of the Philippine Drug War, which has resulted in an estimated 13,000 deaths from anti-na... |
| Thailand eyes moves to allow medical marijuana plantations [21.01.2018] | Is Thailand now ready to legalise marijuana plantations for medical use ? In recent days both legislators and state officials have been in the news a... |
| Law on marijuana should be eased [17.12.2017] | In a long overdue move, the government this past week decided to relax the narcotics law and allow hemp to be grown as a cash crop in six provinces i... |
| Killings won't solve drug problem, ex-Thai PM Abhisit says [21.10.2017] | Recounting the experience of Thailand, former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said killing addicts can never solve the drug problem, as long as... |
| Decriminalise kratom, make it an energy drink: doctor [22.08.2017] | A leading traditional medicine practitioner has renewed calls for kratom to be removed from the list of banned narcotics and said it could be used to... |
| Could Thailand, which gave world the bong, legalise cannabis for medicinal use? [11.06.2017] | Thaksin Shinawatra considered legalising marijuana, and recently a justice minister aired same idea, amid mounting evidence of its medicinal benefits... |
| Drug reform push stalls [10.04.2017] | While there has been some progress in modernising drug laws, there is almost no good news in Thailand or the region. Despite Gen Paiboon's pioneering... |
| Paiboon stands by delisting pot, krathom plan [18.11.2016] | Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya from Thailand is standing firm in his aim to remove krathom and marijuana from the narcotic drugs list and treat t... |
| Section 44 to ease ya ba ban [29.08.2016] | The Justice Ministry will seek the use of Section 44 under the interim charter to remove methamphetamine, or ya ba, from the dangerous narcotics list... |
| Thailand’s novel approach to drugs could offer lesson to neighbors [07.08.2016] | Forward thinking is not what one has come to expect from the conservative military regime running Thailand for the past two years. But a government w... |
| Soaring prison population prompts Thailand to re-think 'lost' drug war [17.07.2016] | More than a decade after Thailand declared a "war on drugs", the country is admitting defeat. As the prison population soars, Justice Minister Paiboo... |
| Justice Ministry seeking to remove ‘ya ba’ from ‘most-dangerous drugs’ list [17.06.2016] | Thailand's Justice Ministry is looking into a proposal to exclude ‘ya ba’, or pills containing a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine, from the li... |
| Is kratom the new bath salts? [26.02.2016] | The botanical substance is both a stimulant and a sedative. It is common and illegal in Thailand, where it grows naturally, but little-known and larg... |
| Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives and UNGASS 2016 [28.04.2015] | As the world prepares for the 2016 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016), an increasing numb... |
| Bouncing Back [30.04.2014] | TNI's indepth examination of the illegal drug market in the Golden Triangle, which has witnessed a doubling of opium production, growing prison popul... |
| Thailand’s cure for meth addiction? A leafy jungle stimulant [16.09.2013] | The legal status of kratom is under review in Thailand. Options include making kratom available only by prescription, decriminalizing small amounts a... |
| Minister proposes to legalise krathom use [30.08.2013] | Justice Minister Chaikasem Nitisiri said he is considering the possibility of legalising krathom leaves with one of the options being to use the plan... |
| Drug policy reform is breaking through at the international level [24.03.2013] | Change is in the air ... But the pace could be quickened a bit. While the international policymaking body on drugs has long been stuck in neutral, th... |
| Kratom in Thailand [01.04.2011] | In early 2010, the Thai Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) developed a policy proposal to review different aspects of the criminal justice ... |
| Alternative Development or Business as Usual? [01.11.2010] | The Chinese Government's opium substitution programmes in northern Burma and Laos have prompted a booming rubber industry, but the beneficiaries have... |
| The ATS Boom in Southeast Asia [15.01.2009] | In the 1990s, Southeast Asia experienced a boom in the production and consumption of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS), in particular methamphetamine... |
| Closed to Reason [21.02.2008] | A report published in March 2007 by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Open Society Institute Public Health Program, strongly criticises the... |
| Alternative Development and Drug Control [08.01.2002] | What can Alternative Development interventions realistically hope to achieve, given the growing demand for illicit drugs and the continuing prevalenc... |
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