Dozens killed in first four days of Duterte's drug war.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 8:40 pm

boozyoldman wrote:Interesting piece from Al Jazeera

http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/asia/201 ... 13446.html

So far, just talk. Thread from Thailand News forum about decriminalizing cannabis: https://cambodiaexpatsonline.com/thailan ... 10347.html

While recent news reports might create the impression Thailand was already going up in a purple haze of permissive drug legalization, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam soberly reminded the public Monday that no action has been taken yet.

Another Thai- PH comparison, seen from the PI:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/813431/hon ... r-on-drugs

Article from 2014 on SEA's "war on drugs" (so written before Duterte was elected president of the Philippines, but interesting nonetheless.)
https://news.vice.com/article/southeast ... t-why-stop

It seems like all drugs are treated as equally bad, which is probably part of the problem. If cannabis was legal, would that have any impact on the meth trade ?

Post by **Username Taken** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 9:27 pm

Anchor Moy wrote:If cannabis was legal, would that have any impact on the meth trade ?

Khmers seem to see cannabis as something that's smoked by old people. Who wants to look like an old person?

taabarang · Post by **taabarang** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 9:31 pm

"Khmers seem to see cannabis as something that's smoked by old people. Who wants to look like an old person?"

Anyone who wants to live long enough to get old, I suppose. And yes, I'm much older than the usual obit subjects.

Post by **Username Taken** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 9:44 pm

So what works best for you Taa, weed or meth?

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Tue Sep 20, 2016 9:52 pm

Username Taken wrote:
Anchor Moy wrote:If cannabis was legal, would that have any impact on the meth trade ?
Khmers seem to see cannabis as something that's smoked by old people. Who wants to look like an old person?

If you take enough meth you can be young but look really old; Win-win ?

boozyoldman · Post by **boozyoldman** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:24 am

A cannabis promotion campaign on telly and social media is needed - like the ones for beer and fizzy soft drinks.

The government could issue cannabis cultivation licences to 1,000 CPP members in good standing and in next to
no time the meth issue would fade away ...

... it will be remembered that there was a time - long ago now - that
enormous numbers of the Irish took to inhaling ether after Father Matthew - the "Apostle of Temperance" -
had bullied and shamed them into shunning the Demon Drink ... then the ether issue faded away and the Irish
were happily back on the drink once more.

boozyoldman · Post by **boozyoldman** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 9:38 am

THE ETHER ERA IN IRELAND

A traveller coming into Cookstown on market day could smell the ether carried on the breeze a half-mile away ...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/th ... ng-craze-0

This is now a footnote of history, almost totally forgotten, but it illustrates a simple maxim:

"If people can't get high one way, they may well try another" - young First Nations Canadians are prohibited from buying
the Demon Drink, so they huff gasoline instead.

boozyoldman · Post by **boozyoldman** » Wed Sep 21, 2016 12:14 pm

"I will kill all the drug lords"

http://www.theatlantic.com/internationa ... ily-092016

The detail about Duterte in a hospital switching off one gravely-wounded gangster's life-support system is the stuff of
black comedy at its finest

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 11:06 pm

Philippines leader likens himself to Hitler, wants to kill millions of drug users
Posted 30 Sep 2016 11:25

MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to liken himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday and said he would "be happy" to exterminate three million drug users and peddlers in the country.

In a rambling speech on his arrival in Davao City after a visit to Vietnam, Duterte told reporters that he had been "portrayed to be some cousin of Hitler" by critics.

Noting that Hitler had murdered millions of Jews, Duterte said: "There are three million drug addicts (in the Philippines). I'd be happy to slaughter them.

"If Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have...," he said, pausing and pointing to himself.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asi ... 68754.html

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Mon Oct 03, 2016 12:33 am

Duterte (sort of) apologises to the Jews for his Hitler remark but insults the USA:

Excerpts:

"But it is not really that I said something wrong. But rather they do not really want to tinker with the memory so I apologise profoundly and deeply to the Jewish (people).

"It was never my intention but the problem was I was criticised using Hitler, comparing to me. But I was very emphatic. I will kill the three million."
...

While issuing his qualified apology on Friday, Duterte continued to lash out at Western critics and warned he was willing to kick all American troops out of the Philippines.

"The Americans, I don’t like them.... they are reprimanding me in public. So I say: ’Screw you, fuck you, everything else. You are stupid’," he said.

Duterte threatened to cancel a defence accord with the United States, the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), that went into force in January.

That agreement, sealed under the administration of Duterte’s predecessor, Benigno Aquino, allows US forces access to five Philippine bases to help counterbalance a growing Chinese presence in the South China Sea.

"This EDCA is an official document... but it does not bear the signature of the president of the republic," Duterte said.

"Better think twice now because I will be asking you to leave the Philippines altogether."

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakin ... 96723.html

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