Suvarnabhumi Airport denies foreign passenger smoked marijuana in departure lounge

The airport announced Friday that tourist police, immigration police and narcotics suppression police had checked the smoking room at Gate D8A and did not find any trace of the drug.
On Thursday, a Facebook user, Netchanok Mingkwan, posted a picture of an old man smoking something from a transparent plastic bottle in a manner similar to marijuana smoking. She wondered how the passenger could take marijuana to smoke inside the airport.
But the airport insisted that all passengers and their belongings were carefully searched for safety reasons in line with the rules of the International Civil Aviation Organisation. They say marijuana could not be smuggled into the airport to be smoked.
The airport added that its security officials did not detect anyone smoking marijuana. The person in the photograph circulated on social media might be smoking tobacco as is a tradition in some Asian countries.