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how a mass shooting killed thailand’s quiet decriminalization of meth


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A former cop walks into a daycare in rural Thailand and kills 36 people, most of them children. The country is shaken and the quiet meth reform that had been helping addicts avoid prison?

Scrapped overnight.

In this episode, I break down how one mass shooting triggered the collapse of Thailand’s de facto decriminalization of meth, the role of illegal guns, and how the civil war next door in Myanmar is making things worse.



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