Eradication measures have been, carried out since 1984, especially in areas where opium poppy cultivation has continued to thrive. As a result of such crop-substitution and eradication measures, opium production has fallen in recent years. Cannabis eradication Illicit cannabis is grown mainly in remote areas of northeastern Thailand. The illicit cannabis-growing areas have expanded to include various provinces in the central and southern parts of the country. Only eradication measures are used against cannabis cultivation because the nature of the problem is different from that of opium poppy cultivation.
Cannabis is more profitable than any other cash crop.
And cannabis growers, unlike growers of the opium poppy, are aware that they are engaged in an illegal activity. Interception of chemicals used in the production of illicit drugs The Government of Thailand has made efforts to intercept certain chemicals used in the production of illicit drugs in northern and southern provinces of the country. Acetic anhydride and acetyl chloride have been included in Schedule IV of the Narcotics Act of 1979. Recently, it was found that other types of licit chemicals, such as glacial acetic acid and ethilidine diacetate, were being used instead of acetic anhydride. The use of ethylidine has considerably increased and, for that reason, it has been included in Schedule IV of the Narcotics Act.