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Draconian Drug Campaigns Failing in Southeast Asia

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Mar 14, 2019
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Methamphetamine – known as shabu in the Philippines, ya ba in Thailand, ya ma in Cambodia, ice and speed elsewhere – is increasingly becoming known as the drug of choice across Asia, according to a new United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report released earlier this week despite murderous anti-drug campaigns in the Philippines and Indonesia…

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