Huge drug pile to be destroyed

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Huge drug pile to be destroyed
Published: 20/06/2011 at 05:51 PM
Bangkok Post: Online news:  

Illegal drugs worth an estimated 7.4 billion baht, including 22 million speed pills worth about 6.6 billion baht, will be destroyed this Friday in Ayutthaya.

The drugs, weighing more than 2.4 tonnes, will be incinerated  at 850 degrees Celsius, which will cause less pollution, at the Bang Pa-in industrial Estate in Ayutthaya, said Phongphan Wongmani, deputy secretary of the Food and Drug Administration.

Among the seized drugs are 23kg of ya Ice, or crystal methamphetamine, he said. Police said arrests for use, possession and dealing in crystal meth are on the rise, he said.

 The drug is usually smuggled into Thailand from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Wealthy people are the major  customers.

Deputy Narcotics Suppression Bureau chief Naret Nanthachot said they velieved they were catching only  10% of the drugs being smuggled into and through the country.