Posted on 14/11/03
SOCIAL STUDIES
'No heaven for you'Ban Pang Lao is a rice-farming village in the hills of northern Thailand that was being destroyed by drugs, reports The Associated Press. "Children stole from family rice stores to buy methamphetamine -- the drug of choice for most Thai addicts -- and outsiders drove into town all night long to buy the little orange pills from a few dozen villagers who had taken up drug dealing full time. Then, backed up by angry residents and relatives, village elders threatened the drug dealers and users with a terrifying fate for a Thai: If they died, no one would attend their funerals and no monk would say prayers for their souls. The dealers and users soon went clean and no one suffered ostracism."
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