{"id":75660,"date":"2025-05-26T13:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75660"},"modified":"2025-05-26T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:08:33","slug":"the-huge-increase-in-brits-caught-smuggling-cannabis-out-of-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/26\/the-huge-increase-in-brits-caught-smuggling-cannabis-out-of-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"The huge increase in Brits caught smuggling cannabis out of Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2024\/08\/28\/00\/27145924-d133cb63-be57-4c0c-8e33-4d0980548113.png\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;A suitcase full of cannabis seized from Lyndsey Russell, 38, from Grimsby, who was arrested at Manchester Airport after flying in from Thailand, and jailed for 21 months in June this yea&lt;\/p&gt;\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Officials in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/thailand\">Thailand<\/a>\u00a0are cracking down on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/cannabis\">cannabis<\/a>\u00a0sales after cases of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/tourists\">tourists<\/a>\u00a0attempting to smuggle the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/drug\">drug<\/a> out of the country soared in recent months. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/thailand-british-tourists-cannabis-smuggling-b2757794.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Officials in\u00a0Thailand\u00a0are cracking down on\u00a0cannabis\u00a0sales after cases of\u00a0tourists\u00a0attempting to smuggle the\u00a0drug out of the country soared in recent months. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/cannabis-in-suitcases.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75661,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75660\/revisions\/75661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}