{"id":51991,"date":"2024-05-09T17:17:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T07:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=51991"},"modified":"2024-05-09T17:17:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T07:17:13","slug":"thai-pm-calls-for-illegal-drugs-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=51991","title":{"rendered":"Thai PM calls for illegal drugs crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has vowed to crack down on illegal drugs, saying that possessing &#8220;even one pill&#8221; should be punished, and ordering officials to press ahead with plans to recriminalise cannabis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Thai government announced plans to re-list cannabis as a narcotic in February, after decriminalising the drug in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The kingdom was once notorious for its tough drug laws, but it has sought to cash in on the global boom in medical marijuana in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand is also an important transit country for opium and methamphetamine &#8211; &#8211; much of it produced in war-torn Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The drug problem is a national agenda that all agencies must work together to solve the problem seriously,&#8221; Srettha said Wednesday on social media<br \/>\nplatform X saying he wanted to see progress within 90 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has vowed to crack down on illegal drugs, saying that possessing &#8220;even one pill&#8221; should be punished, and ordering officials to press ahead with plans to recriminalise cannabis. The Thai government announced plans to re-list cannabis as a narcotic in February, after decriminalising the drug in 2022. The kingdom was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1428],"class_list":["post-51991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-thai-pm-calls-for-illegal-drugs-crackdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}