re: "Drug gangs use Thailand as transit point to Malaysia" (BP, February 12)
Dear editor,
Another tedious repetition of the a well-worn drugs story. But this repetition does not surprise, it being a long established fact that current drug policy is the deliberate repetition of demonstrated failure; worse, that it worsens drug harms to society.
Only two groups benefit, and that mightily, from this determined adherence to a known failure with disastrous consequences for society: the mafia scum running the highly popular drug industries, and their loyal officials keeping things running smoothly, with the odd showy seizure that clearly does not dent the profits from the monopoly the law makers have so generously bestowed on the mafia and the corrupt decade after decade after decade.
It is hard to see either any sanity or any remotely moral justification for retaining such socially destructive policy when beneficial reform is so easy and would save a fortune. The cynical might think that the law makers don't want upset the happy mafia and corrupt state officials getting rich off the status quo of legally mandated misery.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on February 13, 2018, under the title "Happy mafia" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1411519/happy-mafia
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