Thai Cabinet Approved One Pill Rule for Meth

On 11 June 2024, Thai cabinet approved the draft of ministerial regulation stipulating amount of narcotics and psychotropic substances that are deemed to be in possession for consumption in principle. This is part of a result from controversy and public backlash on the rules imposed by the government at the start of year 2024 that a person who owns amphetamine and methamphetamine (“Drugs”) not more than 5 pills is deemed a drug user and not a drug dealer. The government has taken the comments and decided to make an amendment to its rule by reducing a number of Drugs ownership from not more than 5 pills of Drugs to 1 pill of Drugs for any drug owner to be considered as a drug user and not a drug dealer.