PHNOM PENH, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia is seeking ways to include the illicit trade in oil from the rare M'reah Prov tree into its anti-drug legislation, local media reported Thursday.
"Introducing legislation is crucial to stopping all forms of trade in M'reah Prov oil and would enable us to impose heavy punishments on traffickers," Lou Ramin, general secretary of the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD), was quoted by the Mekong Times as saying.
He said that Vietnam has reported many hundreds of tons of the oil being smuggled into its country from 2003 to 2006, while Thailand reported that it seized 50 tons of M'reah Prov oil smuggled from Cambodia in 2007.
The Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture's forestry administration said that the country's M'reah Prov trees are mostly found in the provinces of Pursat, Battambang and Koh Kong.
Wong Hoy Yuen, a project coordinator from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said that M'reah Prov oil is up to 90 percent rich in Safrole oil, which is used as the main precursor in the clandestine manufacture of MDMA, a drug popularly known as "ecstasy".
M'reah Prov resin is often illegally tapped from trees in Cambodia's densely forested northwestern regions, the newspaper said.
The species is seriously under threat because the slow-growing trees are cut down so the stump and roots of the trees can be boiled to extract the oil, it added.
"Introducing legislation is crucial to stopping all forms of trade in M'reah Prov oil and would enable us to impose heavy punishments on traffickers," Lou Ramin, general secretary of the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD), was quoted by the Mekong Times as saying.
He said that Vietnam has reported many hundreds of tons of the oil being smuggled into its country from 2003 to 2006, while Thailand reported that it seized 50 tons of M'reah Prov oil smuggled from Cambodia in 2007.
The Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture's forestry administration said that the country's M'reah Prov trees are mostly found in the provinces of Pursat, Battambang and Koh Kong.
Wong Hoy Yuen, a project coordinator from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said that M'reah Prov oil is up to 90 percent rich in Safrole oil, which is used as the main precursor in the clandestine manufacture of MDMA, a drug popularly known as "ecstasy".
M'reah Prov resin is often illegally tapped from trees in Cambodia's densely forested northwestern regions, the newspaper said.
The species is seriously under threat because the slow-growing trees are cut down so the stump and roots of the trees can be boiled to extract the oil, it added.
5 comments:
Govt should stop all kinds of smuggling of Mreah prov to Yuon cong and siam cong.
Let's make best use of it to develop our Khmer nation.
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It is such a tragedy that stupid Cambodian leaders are so quick to ban Mother Nature without giving any consideration into the research if those chemical properties can be used for other useful purpose such as for medicine! I am sure if Cambodia has more Chemical engineers in the future and I hope they can find some use for it!
Remember even Marijuana plant is harmful but it can be used for pain killer!
Okay, but let me know how effective your pain killer is, when those addicts run a 20 cm razor sharp across your throat and leave you bled to dead by yourself in an alley.
To 3:55PM
Stupid Vietcong slave mother fucker! If you make the damn thing legal who the fuck going to slash the throat of innocence people? Who said that the uses of any medication are not regulated by law?
I am talking about using it on cancer patience! How would you like to die of cancer and at the end you have only skin and bone to show for the pain and the agony! It seems that you mother fucker would like to die of a slow painful death!
Well, when you legalize shit like that, the number of addicts skyrocketing, and because addict is generally unproductive in the long run, they generally end up poor. This in turn, increase poverty in the country. And when you have excessive poverty, you'll have high crimes, scams, and corruption.
Therefore, legalize addictive substances is not the answer, 12:56.
As for medication use, I sure we can just plant enough for that or seek alternative.
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