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Bhumjaithai Party leader Anutin Charnvirakul on Saturday trumpeted forthcoming changes to laws regulating the cultivation and use of cannabis plants as reasons for the party's success at the last election, including a clean sweep in Prachin Buri, the province which he was visiting.
Fight against Covid in jails ramps up
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published : 13 May 2021 at 17:55
48 Ayut Sinthopphan, director-general of the Corrections Department, centre, explains the Covid-19 outbreak at two Bangkok prisons on Thursday. Also present were his deputy Weerakit Hanpariphan, left, and Watchai Mingbanjerdsuk, acting director of the Correctional Hospital. (Photo supplied)
The Corrections Department is ramping up efforts to contain the Covid-19 outbreak at two prisons in Bangkok, where nearly 3,000 inmates have tested positive for the disease.
Director-general Ayut Sinthopphan said on Thursday there were 1,039 Covid-19 cases at the Central Women s Correctional Institution and 1,794 more at Bangkok Remand Prison in Lat Yao sub-district of Chatuchak district.
When Aram Limsakul’s son and daughter came down with dengue fever two years ago, he gave the children, then aged five and four, a vaporiser to inhale the smoke from his own home-grown marijuana. Within a few days, “their fever reduced, they stopped vomiting and ate for the first time in days”, he said. One of Thailand ’s most prominent.