Teen buys drugs on Facebook

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Published: 11 Oct 2012 at 11.32
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A Chiang Mai teenager has been arrested in possession of methamphetamine pills he admitted buying via Facebook.

On Wednesday, Chiang Mai police apprehended the 17-year-old with 10 methamphetamine pills in front of a convenience store in Hang Dong district.

Right after his arrest, he confessed that he had bought the pills from a man via Facebook for 170 baht each, police said. The teen said he normally shares the drug with his friends.

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felixqui
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Discussion 5 : 12 Oct 2012 at 00.185
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bkk-farang,
How about this comparison?
Your argument is that if some people go on to commit a crime when they use X, then X must be made illegal and all X users severely punished, irrespective of whether they actually cause any harm to anyone else.

Under this logic, you think that all car owners and drivers should be in prison since some car owners and drivers do get into road rages resulting in murder, not to mention mowing down innocent pedestrians waiting for buses or police officers on duty. (Although the use of alcohol, a very popular drug of addiction leading to violence and recklessness is also often a contributing factor in these killings.)

I think it matters very much whether someone actually causes actual harm to another or not before they may be justly punished. And you?
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Discussion 4 : 11 Oct 2012 at 17.394
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@felixqui #3: Please stop comparing ice-cream to drugs. I understand your point that drugs can cause health problems and that ice-cream can cause health problems.
But did you ever see anybody crazy because he eats too much ice cream? I saw already a couple of people in bad or incurable condition because they had too many drugs. And lots of people get robbed because druggies want money for their habit and these addicts just don’t care where they get it from. Or do you know people who get robbed by someone who needed this next ice-cream fix?
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Discussion 3 : 11 Oct 2012 at 13.593
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Has the teen actually harmed anyone else, or were he and his mates just having fun?
Has the police action done anyone any good, or merely wasted public funds?

"The youth will now be rehabilitated." That's nice. But does rehabilitation really need the involvement of scarce criminal justice resources that might be more usefully spend preventing and prosecuting things like ... murder, rape, theft, fraud, corruption and other crimes that actually harm people?

It would make as much sense, and justice, for the police to lurk outside ice-cream stores to harrass obese youth and their indulgent parents who are contributing to that growing social health problem.
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Discussion 2 : 11 Oct 2012 at 13.172
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Anyone caught on drug charges should be put through manual labor to purge the urge for drugs and providing some free labor for society can only be a good thing .
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Discussion 1 : 11 Oct 2012 at 12.131
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I guess the Thai solution will be to ban Facebook – not that I will miss it.
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