{"id":25106,"date":"2020-11-26T10:09:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T01:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/26\/thailands-1bn-ketamine-bust-probably-just-chemicals-after-all"},"modified":"2020-11-26T10:09:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T01:09:12","slug":"thailands-1bn-ketamine-bust-probably-just-chemicals-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25106","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s $1bn ketamine bust probably just chemicals after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials admit what they thought was 11.5 tonnes of drugs is most likely trisodium phosphate, a food additive and cleaning agent<\/p>\n<p>Thai authorities have admitted that an 11.5-tonne drug bust may contain an innocent chemical used as a food additive or cleaning agent \u2013 and not ketamine, as they believed.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s anti-narcotics bureau had hailed the seizure of what they said was nearly a billion dollars\u2019 worth of ketamine \u2013 an anaesthetic that can also be used as a party drug.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/26\/thailands-1bn-ketamine-bust-probably-just-chemicals-after-all\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials admit what they thought was 11.5 tonnes of drugs is most likely trisodium phosphate, a food additive and cleaning agentThai authorities have admitted that an 11.5-tonne drug bust may contain an innocent chemical used as a food additive or cle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1057,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-drugs-trade","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25107,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25106\/revisions\/25107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}