Talk:Drugs in Cambodia

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Your page is very well organized and thorough, especially in your analysis of the drug trade that polutes the social and economic areas of Cambodia. This is obviously a topic of interest to you as you have quite nicely display your breadth of knowledge. I like how you include a list of the major drugs sold in the "Golden Triangle" and the repercussions of each drug (i.e.- HIV/AIDS resulting from the heroin market and over use of needles). However, I think you should write this article less like a paper for school and more as an informational segment on this topic that you are so clearly passionate about. Include facts, statistics, locations, and/or major players in this business(AKA-leaders/gangs/groups/mafias). This should be pertinent to your "Recent Developments" category. Also, is there a title for the middle section? Other than that, great start and interesting topic! --Vknott (talk) 16:18, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

The beginning of the article seems to start in mid-topic. It makes sense, but slightly more introduction would be helpful to the reader here. For example, you begin with "Cambodia still remains a major supplier...", adding one or two sentences prior to this such as "Cambodia has always been" or "Cambodia is known for" or something to that effect would clarify the intro of your article. It seems your passion on the subject overrides your writing at some places and makes the article sound somewhat unbiased. The second paragraph is an example of this as it sounds like you are arguing a point about what the government should do about corruption. In editing this, see if you can make it sound more like a textbook rather than how you feel. The middle section could use a title as well, perhaps "Teng Bunma". Otherwise the article is off to a good start as you have several sections talking about all the different aspects that this drug trade affects such as the spread of AIDS, and the social affect on the nation. Using the case about Axelson is a great way to expand on the affects of the trafficking and exposing the severity of the penalties if caught. This topic is very interesting and enlightening and could be even more so with further expansion on each section with either some links, background information or recent statistics, otherwise everything is right on track. MB3C (talk) 06:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

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I believe that this is a great topic where you have alot of good information. I believe that you have a good start. I feel that you can talk more about other topics, such as who grows them, how they grow them, where they sale, to whom and many more. I like the way you use specific examples such as the golden Triangle but I feel that you should good in more detial in what that is because there is many people that dont know what that is. Also feel that your article is not bias, and that you got your information from credible sources. I feel that you care about this topic and know alot about this topic. You are off to a great start with a little more information i believe this will be a great and intresting topic.69.134.34.109 (talk) 23:44, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Drugs, legal or illegal? That depends

Hello. I am not able to judge the quality of the content at the moment, as I haven't been through any of the refs or sources, but I need to state some serious issues about this articles structure.

• For a start, the article rush to equal drugs with illegal drugs, which is neither a correct nor useful approach obviously.
• The article does not describe in any way what an illegal drug is in Cambodia. "Illegal" is not a universal term and this article needs to explain what "illegal" means within a Cambodian context obviously.
• As if that was not enough, the article also silently assumes that "illegal drugs" are psychoactive, stimulating drugs (like cocaine, heroine, etc.), which is of course not the whole story. Illegal drugs can also comprise regular prescription medicine, that is only allowed to be sold by a registered authority or not at all in certain countries. Again the term "illegal" depends heavily on both situation and region and the article needs to explain about this to be of use. To exemplify how important this issue is, a Danish woman was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to a very hard penalty for "attempting to smuggles illegal drugs out of the country", which was exactly medicine. In her case not even prescription medicine. Take a look here: Woman Arrested for Alleged Drug Trafficking.

RhinoMind (talk) 12:37, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

General info on drugs in Cambodia

Hello. I have now created some general structure for the article, but a lot of primary information needs to be filled in. Here are some general topics to be fitted out in the article:

• Is drugs really readily available in all of Cambodia? I would guess it is mostly in the larger cities.
• Conventional biomedicine is not always affordable for the local population in Cambodia.
• Cambodia produces its own versions of popular conventional (Western) biomedicines. They are cheaper than imported drugs, usually as potent, but not as popular in the general population for some reason.
• The Cambodian Faculty of Health and WHO, promotes and supports the use of and education in Traditional Cambodian medicine, especially in rural areas. Several Cambodian institutions produces herbal medicines, since the 1980's.

RhinoMind (talk) 12:48, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

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Pharmaceutical drugs

Hi there.

A section on "Pharmaceutical drugs" is important. While medicinal drugs are also readily available in Cambodia, here have been several cases within the country, criminalising their use, possession and sale. Some cases includes random tourists being jailed for possession, or purchase, of common prescription medicine even. It is also important to link to webpages with official info on rules and regulations. I hope other editors will help to build a good section on pharmaceutical drugs in Cambodia? RhinoMind (talk) 16:08, 25 May 2019 (UTC)