Three Thais planning to journey to Malaysia in the course of the long weekend had been in for a surprise. The travellers had been crossing a checkpoint into Malaysia from South Thailand’s Satun province this week. When Improved took urine samples from the three, they have been found to have traces of marijuana in their bodies.
The tourists have been fined 50,000 baht, and jailed for 3 days. Malaysian border police have been on guard with Thai tourists driving throughout the border, totally checking all automobiles, according to one van driver. The van driver is ethnically Thai, nonetheless, he holds Malaysian nationality. He advised Amarin TV that despite the very fact that he frequently meets with border officers, they nonetheless completely verify his van.
Cannabis in Malaysia is legal for medical purposes. Recreational use of hashish beneath Malaysian laws offers for a compulsory death penalty for convicted drug traffickers. Individuals arrested for possessing 200 grams (seven ounces) of marijuana are presumed by legislation to be trafficking medicine.
Following Thailand’s decriminalisation of hashish, a quantity of nations have warned Thai travelers not to deliver Thai weed into their countries. Last month, South Korea and Singapore embassies joined the list to warn travellers from Thailand not to carry marijuana, other cannabis-based products, or cannabis extracts through their borders..