Thai Women Pay High Price for Drug Offence

Lured by easy money, an escape from poverty or family pressure, thousands of women are locked up for drug offences in Thailand. Thailand has one of the world's highest rates of female imprisonment. Mai, 27, was sentenced to three years in jail after she was caught with 20 "yaba" pills -- a slang term for methamphetamine known locally as "crazy medicine" -- used by tens of thousands of Thais from taxi drivers to students. "The amount of yaba was more ...