JingerBen

   Let me begin with a disclaimer of intent to discredit in any way the Dr. Green Cannabis Dispensary in Chang Mai.

   I went in last week looking for THC edibles... nothing there except two medium-sized cookies below an array of cello envelopes containing exotic looking bud at astronomical prices sold by the gram which is a piddling little amount.

   Taking a pass on the cookies, I impulsively bought a gram of "Mandarin" pressed bud for 550 baht... which was low-balling it pricewise.

   A suggestion to the owners of Dr. Green's: A welcome addition to your stock-in-trade would be local produce offered for sale at much lower prices that reflect local market conditions.

   Fear not, there will always be those who are willing to pay extra for a premium product.

   By offering choices of price and quality you likely won't lose money, but probably will make more in the long run with fully satisfied regular customers.

   All the best.   

A lot of things have changed since I first came here but the instinctive civility of most Thai people I deal with has remained the same.

The short answer to your question is that - in all probability - it was a hoax started by a fraudulent post.

1 hour ago, ramrod711 said:

Couldn't hurt. I live near there and used immigration, Dukes, RimPing and PEA. My wife loved Mr DIY. For a re-entry permit last Friday I waited 4 hours at the airport location instead of 15 minutes at Prom. I'm going to miss the place.

Me too... and a few more.

I've done seven or eight 90 Day Reports there and it never took me more than 10 minutes max.

I can't see it reopening as a shopping mall anytime soon, but just imagine what a great CM Immigration Office it would make if they took over one of the two parts of it.

12 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

If only they tried that before. 

They have never seriously tried that before.

   First, get somebody like Big Joke to root out corruption like he did at the CM IO a while back.

  He got down on the lowest bureaucratic levels and then worked his way up.

   The result was a noticable improvement in courtesy and efficiency.

   It is possible with the right people.

3 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

The precursor for the manufacture are coming across the porous borders, and controlled by people more powerful than the enforcement agencies who are often compromised.

 

As I see it-based on a perspective of 40+ years here-the problem is not so much supply as it is demand.

   In the late '70s and well onto the '80s ya-ba was called "ya-mah", horse medicine.

   It was only given to racehorses.

   Then along came the War on Drugs brought to you by... well, let's not get into that.

   Ganja, which had always been readily available in Thailand, was demonized as "a weed with roots in hell" and outlawed.

   Many young locals turned to ya-mah and the elders started calling them "kee yah-bah" when they'd go violent.

   Let's go back to the way it was before the drug war warped our sense of values. Don't bogart that joint.

   To those who say "Carnage on the highways" I say bulls balls.

   Look at tje figures from places where it has already been legalized.

  It might tend to make them even more cautious on the roads.

  Back in the day, I can't remember one single fight caused by ganja, but there were plenty caused by booze and later by yah-ba.

   Legalize herb, do everybody a favor.

Crack down hard on ya-ba and fully legalize ganja.

The results would be immediate and beneficial.

Somerset Maugham first said it about the French Riviera in the 1920s.

It applies even more to the Thailand that I've known and loved since first coming here in the late '70s.

Check out the Airport Plaza vaxx centre run very efficiently by Nakhon Ping Hospital.

   For my first shot a few weeks ago I arrived a little before 8 AM and was out before 10 AM.

  It is located off the second level of the parking garage.

   The fact that it didn't cost me anything was the icing on the cake.

Stop your bickering and let's go Back to the Future.

When I first came here in the late '70s ganja was almost as easy to buy ss beer.

It was available everywhere - in the cities, in the countryside, and on the islands.

Then along came the War on Drugs and with it smack, speed, designer drugs and unprecedented corruption.

All this over a plant that has many potential benefits if used properly.

The US that I grew up in doesn't exist anymore.

   There is nothing to go back to.