Bangkok, TailandiaThailand’s claim to have seized almost $ 1 miliardi di ketamina di contrabbando questo mese erano sbagliati e finora i test non hanno mostrato alcun farmaco, ha detto martedì il ministro della giustizia.
Somsak Thepsuthin said tests which turned purple in the presence of ketamine hydrochloride reacted the same to trisodium phosphate — a chemical which can be used as a food additive and cleaning agent which is all that had been found so far.
“This was a misunderstanding that our agency must accept,” ha detto ai giornalisti. “This wasn’t a mistake. It’s new knowledge.”
He said testing continued. Alcuni 66 di 475 bags had been tested by Sunday.
Thailand’s Office of the Narcotics Control Board had announced the seizure on November 12 and said that it pointed to a multinational drug network.
In medicine, ketamine is used as an anesthetic or an anti-depressant, but as a recreational drug it is used to induce dreamy or trance-like sensations, and sometimes hallucinations.
