Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent Reuters Since Thailand decriminalised cannabis in 2022, shops selling the drug have popped up across the country Thailand is trying to rein in its free-wheeling marijuana market. The government has approved new measures, which will soon restrict consumption of the drug to those with a doctor’s prescription – in...
Just last week we had a pair of Chinese nationals charged with trying to smuggle a biological hazard into the US. Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements, and visa fraud, announced...
Zac Sherratt BBC News, South East Danz Photography Phineas Float, Jon Collyer and Lisa Stocker (left to right) are accused of drug offences in Bali The trial of three British nationals detained in Indonesia on drug smuggling charges has begun. Jon Collyer, 38, and Lisa Stocker, 39, were arrested at Bali’s international airport in February...
Officers at Pococi Penitentiary in Costa Rica have caught a cat carrying two packages of drugs attached to its body. According to a statement on Facebook from the country’s Ministry of Justice, guards spotted the animal in a green area of the prison on 6 May, before capturing it. The cat was carrying packages containing...
