3three Thais detained and fined in Malaysia following drug checks

Three Thais planning to journey to Malaysia during the long weekend had been in for a shock. The travellers had been crossing a checkpoint into Malaysia from South Thailand’s Satun province this week. When Malaysian authorities took urine samples from the three, they were discovered to have traces of marijuana of their bodies.
The tourists have been fined 50,000 baht, and jailed for 3 days. Malaysian border police have been on guard with Thai vacationers driving throughout the border, thoroughly checking all vehicles, according to one van driver. Formula is ethnically Thai, however, he holds Malaysian nationality. He informed Amarin TV that although he frequently meets with border officers, they nonetheless completely examine his van.
Cannabis in Malaysia is authorized for medical purposes. Recreational use of hashish beneath Malaysian laws supplies for a compulsory dying penalty for convicted drug traffickers. Individuals arrested for possessing 200 grams (seven ounces) of marijuana are presumed by regulation to be trafficking medication.
Following Thailand’s decriminalisation of hashish, a number of international locations have warned Thai vacationers not to bring Thai weed into their nations. Last month, South Korea and Singapore embassies joined the list to warn travellers from Thailand to not carry marijuana, different cannabis-based merchandise, or cannabis extracts through their borders..