Border guard forces of southern An Giang province in Vietnam have detained a local woman for transporting 5.8 kg of marijuana from Cambodia to Vietnam.
According to a report on Vietnam News Agency on Monday, 33-year-old was caught red-handed transporting the drug in An Giang’s Tinh Bien district on Dec. 1.
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She confessed that, a Cambodian man hired her to carry marijuana from the neighboring Cambodia’s Takeo province to An Giang with the fee of 500,000 Vietnamese dong (22 U.S. dollars).
Marijuana also known as Cannabis among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the Cannabis plant used for medical or recreational purposes. The main psychoactive part of cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol, one of the 483 known compounds in the plant, including at least 65 other cannabinoids.
Since the beginning of the year, the authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have seized more than 1.6 tonnes of drugs, marking a tenfold increase on the same period last year, Mr Phung Van Dang, deputy head of the city’s anti-drug police department, said at a meeting last week.
According to Vietnamese law, those convicted of smuggling over 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kg of methamphetamine are punishable by death. Making or trading 100 grams of heroin or 300 grams of other illegal drugs also faces death penalty.