- Opiated Thai Sticks: Myth or Truth? -

[Dime]

Udorn was a US Military base ,or maybe you mentioned that. Anyway the bars around all the US military bases were where the shipment logistics and connections took place.

http://www.preservingourhistory.com/Herbicide_Exposure_at_Udorn.pdf

 

[Donald Mallard]

Udorn was a US Military base ,or maybe you mentioned that. Anyway the bars around all the US military bases were where the shipment logistics and connections took place.

http://www.preservingourhistory.com/Herbicide_Exposure_at_Udorn.pdf

yes , because of the air base there dime ,
as a result 10 000 soldiers were based there at the height of the vietnam war ,
not sure why they always refer to it as Udorn ,, but they can leave off the r , its correctly said Udon , short for Udonthani ...

"By the early 1970s, the foreign demand for ganja had produced a boom in Isan, the poorest region of Thailand. Although it is in Nakhon Phanom Province, Thailand, the region’s economic and social ties are closer to Laos. North of Udorn on the banks of the Mekong, Isan is a plateau the size of New England that floods during monsoon season and is arid and dusty in the dry season. Although rice fields are hard to irrigate and do not yield much, marijuana thrives thanks to the Mekong River, whose tributaries replenish the region with rich, silty soil. “This area [Nakhon Phanom] everyone have water, but the climate and the soil somehow make this area very good. The sun very good, very nice, and the night time very cold,” said one Thai who began growing there in 1966. “If you grow same plant, same seed another place, have different taste."

 

[Donald Mallard]

My coauthor and I conducted close to 1000 hours of interviews in Thailand, Cambodia, and the US and found no evidence of the "opiated Thai Stick." One otherwise credible source claimed that some Thai had an "opium tincture" sprinkled on it. Although the source was a major early player who caught the first "Golden Voice" that was shipped via APO to Oahu, his time in Asia was limited, and he was mistaken. The fact that this myth persists is testimony to how strong Thai Stick were.

 

[Donald Mallard]

one would think after interviewing many smugglers , importers , exporters , growers , surfers etc ,
at least one true story about the old opiated thai stick would surface , but according to old mate ,
not a single one ,,
its almost like it wasnt real ... lol ...