8 Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin speaks about k-powdered milk during a press conference at the parliament in Bangkok on Friday. (Photo: Aekarach Sattuburuth)
The new cocktail of illicit drugs that has killed many people contains a huge overdose of tranquilizer, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin said on Friday.
Mr Somsak was answering questions at a press conference at the parliment on the new drug cocktail, known as k-powdered milk, which has killed seven users in Bangkok recently.
He said the Office of the Narcotics Control Board tested samples taken from the bodies of the people who died. They found diazepam equivalent to 100 Valium pills.
8 Sniffer dogs seek out illegal drugs on Monday in the area around Wat Phraya Krai in the capital on Monday. (Photo by Arnun Chonmahatrakool)
The Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) is working closely with the Food and Drugs Administration and Customs Department to find the source of diazepam an anti-anxiety medication that was detected in the fatal ketamine cocktail known on the streets as k-nom pong .
At the same time, authorities are also looking into another ketamine concoction called Talaysai , after a friend of a victim that had overdosed on k-nom pong told police they were warned that it is much stronger than k-nom pong.
64 Sniffer dogs seek out illegal drugs on Monday in the area around Wat Phraya Krai in the capital. Arnun Chonmahatrakool
The national police chief has pledged to crack down on a new illegal drug cocktail known as k-powdered milk after six people died in Bangkok on the same day after using it.
National police chief Pol Gen Suwat Jangyodsuk said police could not yet confirm whether the substance, which looks like powdered milk, was a combination of ketamine and sleeping pills as speculated, as the results of the autopsies had not yet been released.
Some reports said it also contained methamphetamine and heroin.
This article by Corey Noles was originally published on Cannabis & Tech Today, and appears here with permission.
The UK is now the largest producer and exporter of legal cannabis in Europe, according to a new report.
The report, released by released ResearchandMarkets.com, is titled
The European market is expected to reach $37 billion by 2027 from $3.5 billion in 2019; it is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 29.6% from 2020 to 2027.
The growth of the market in this region is attributed to the upgrading of regulations for medical cannabis and growth of the cannabis industry as well as an increase in microdosing. However, challenges related to cannabis hinder the market growth.
Vehicle auction scam
Investigations revealed registration of 7,013 vehicles was fake and 4,000 had been registered on unauthentic vouchers
December 31, 2020
rajas and
maharajas in democracy, financial and other sorts of scandals do occur, off and on. The Anti-Corruption Establishment Punjab has unearthed a mega scandal that cost the exchequer a whopping loss of 300 billion rupees through a vehicle auction scam. ACE has registered a case against scores of officers, including five directors of the provincial Excise Taxation and Narcotics Control Board, suspected of their involvement in the fraud. Of the 18 officers named in the scam, ACE has arrested an excise and taxation officer. Others are on the run. Dishonest officials had been carrying out the dirty business of auctioning stolen and smuggled trucks, buses and other vehicles on the basis of forged auction papers for the past several years.