re: "8,000 to be cleared after kratom's removal from narcotics list" (BP, August 11, 2021)
Dear editor,
Praise where it's due: the government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has taken a step in the right direction by having kratom removed from the list of seriously illegal drugs in popular use. This is especially good news for the "More than 8,000 convicted people and suspects (who) will be cleared of legal charges" that were always unjust.
Now do the same for marijuana and the related unjust criminal charges for its sale and use, and continue moving forward until people may in accord with more moral law freely choose how they waste their lives using their recreational drugs of choice provided that they not directly harm or threaten to harm others.
Such decriminalization and legalization in line with the established policy for the more socially harmful drug alcohol, along with similar regulation and taxation, also happens to be the most effective route to reducing the harms that drugs cause to society and to others.
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 August 13, 2021, under the title "Kratom victory" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2164531/another-whitewash
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