Two Youths, Aged 22 and 16, Arrested with 3 Kgs of Meth in Phnom Penh Raid

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Re: Two Youths, Aged 22 and 16, Arrested with 3 Kgs of Meth in Phnom Penh Raid

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These kids are just getting a few hundred bucks to transport stuff, but as Anchor Moy said "how do you deter people from getting mixed up in major drug trafficking"? The sentencing for possessing/ trafficking large amounts of narcotics is quite severe across most of the world, especially this region. You'd get a much lesser sentence for serial rape/ murder in many countries. Meanwhile there are ever increasing amounts of this methamphetamine poison being picked up in busts all the time. Cambodia has been used as a conduit for narcotics for decades, it's domestic consumption which concerns me more though.
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