Dogmatix

I was wondering if the sellers on LINE's shop.line.me are legit or scams. Some are offering low price weed and one offering Nepalese hash claimed to be imported.

Makes. I am an occasional plinker and sports shooter in Thailand. This kind of scenario used to be a recurring nightmare. I also would never take a bag that has been to the range on a trip or wear range shoes. Just an empty cartridge case flying into your bag unnoticed is enough to get you arrested in most places.

Some of the other articles, including the link in the OP to a Hebrew article I google translated, say that he had already been in Thailand for a few weeks and was arrested on arrival in Phuket on a domestic flight from Bangkok. That suggests the ammo and magazines passed security at Ben Gurion Airport, which is virtually impossible, then passed arrivals security in Bangkok and then again passed domestic departure security in Bangkok before finally running out of luck on the fourth airport security check of its journey. This was not just a single .22 or 9mm bullet which could perhaps have more easily escaped the owner's notice but two magazines filled with 55 5.56mm cartridges which would be reasonable heavy and bulky. Even if he was in a rush to leave home to go the airport in Israel, you would think it the two full mags would have been noticed during his trip before he took the domestic flight. He could have discretely wrapped them in a plastic bag and dumped them in a river or in the sea. He is a police border guard. I wonder what view he and the Israeli press would take if a Hamas security official was caught trying to enter Israel with two full AK47 mags that he had overlooked in his suitcase. The article doesn't cite any police investigation into the type of 5.56 ammunition. There is a limited range of 5.56 ammo available in Thaland and some of it is locally manufactured. It would be interesting to know if it was a brand that could have been sourced locally or was it the type normally used by Israeli military and police which is probably made in Israel One assumes the court wasn't too impressed with his arguments.

Couldn’t care less about Lady Hussey or the attention seeker with the dreadlocks. Both worthless human beings.

If they are using CCTV evidence, how will they know who was driving the car? My wife drives my car. Her brother dives her car. My maid owns a pick-up and she doesn’t drive at all but her son in law drives it. And what about company owned vehicles? A lot of people are going to say they lent the car to someone called Jiap who lives somewhere up country and they never knew his real name.

I knew a hi-so Thai who lived in an inherited house in prime Sukhumvit. He was getting really annoyed with noise from condo cconstruction site next door that was working nearly 24/7. He made many complaints to Thonglor fuzz shop but they always ignored as they were being paid of by the contractor. One night he had enough, so he screamed at them to stop at the top of his voice. When they continued he fired several unaimed shots up at the condo. Miraculously the noise stopped immediately and he was never disturbed by them at night any more. I didn't condone his behaviour. Even being hi-so and well connected he would have had big headaches, if he had killed or injured someone on the site or one of neighbours from a falling bullet. Not to mention the workers were just poor sods tring to support their families and ordered to work OT by a greedy dirtbag contractor and project owner who didn't give a damn about workers or neighbours. Unfortunately even Thais well educated overseas believe they have a right to settle problems with gun violence. So how can the uneducated Thais be expected to behave any better.

This one now only delivers to Pattaya, although website says nationwide deliveries by post.

Of course it was not done for medical reasons. They had already legalised medical use with prescription from a licensed Thai herbal practitioner and the GPO was already producing THC and CBD oil for the purpose. This legislation is still effective for use of THC extracts with over 0.2% THC. Smoking was also legal in controlled medical and research environments. They could have widened that up a bit perhaps requiring prescriptions to buy buds from dispensaries, the way California started, or just left it as it was. It was not for the people either. Anutin's associates are well versed in the technology of cannabis culture and knew full well that the Isaan Thai peasants in his support bases in Buriram and Srisaket would not do well with the plant, lacking the knowiedge and technology to cultivate and cure them for maximum yield. As it is most of the million seedlings distributed to farmers shrivelled and died in a short space of time. It is all about the MONEY. Huge amounts have already been made from local plantations and imports from North America, marked up at least 100% over North American retail prices, for which the Customs Department has presumably been ordered to look the other way and pick up the brown paper envelopes. The scope of investment in illegal plantations in Laos by Thai politicians and politically connected gangsters is unknown but probably huge. Medical applications are limited and of questionable efficacy with a few notable exceptions, e.g. certain types of epilepsy and terminal cancer. The main money making opportunity is in recreational use. Having said all that, I am in favour of legalisation for Thailand which could work wonders for tourism and provide income for a lot of Thais, even if Thai farmers are sadly excluded. Despite his often idiotic and crass remarks Anutin is not a fool and knew exactly what he was doing. He knew that legalisation would have had zero chance, if he had been open about legalising it for the main purpose of recreational use.

Hilarious!

A better deal than Biden who got nothing in return for eating humble pie and fist bumping M. Bone Saw. Payudh can send slave laborers back to be abused with no jutice for the Saudis murdered by police generals and Thailand gets to keep the rocks too.

The article points out that the Administrative Court has the power to overturn government decrees and that it has received a petition to overturn the decree that decriminalized cannabis. The court has this power because government decrees that have the force of law, unlike acts of parliament, are signed by individual ministers or their staff without parliamentary scrutiny or public consultation.

My question too. Many people drive other people's cars. My wife drives my car and her brother drives her car. What about company cars? I might transfer all into a company name, if there is an advantage.

Not sure about this because the court can order licence suspension for DUI on the first offence. This may be over and above any suspensions ordered by a court or perhaps it is overridden by court penalties. Very unclear.

Wissanu is a politician. He looked for an opportunity to be seen to be doing something in view of the backlash from conservatives and the derailing of the Cannabis Bill by coalition MPs from the Democrat party in pursuit of their own political aimes. So, as deputy PM, he jumped in to chair a meeting of the ONCB which is under the Justice minster who stressed before the meeting that nothing will change as a result of the meeting and it didn't. Wissanu has announced that cannabis will become a controlled herb which is nothing to do with him but is according to the Health Ministry regulation signed by Anutin already. This means no sales from vans, no smoking lounges, no online sales or advertising. We already knew that but Wissanu is trying to take credit for something already done by Anutin who was desperate to stave off attacks on his policy after his colleaagues in the coalition voted down his Cannabis Bill. Anutin doesn't really want more restrictions or medical only, like he says, but he needs a solution that will satisfy conservatves and head off the pressure for recriminalisation that would be a disaster for him and his supporters with huge investments in the industry.

Why would Hunter have abandoned the laptop without paying for it and picking it up? And why would he have given it with his personal data in it to a repair shop anyway? He could have got a trusted friend to transfer the data to a new drive, if it had failed and was not backed up. Then destroy it with a sledge hammer, if it really had such compromising stuff in it. Seems not really credible.

Why should the public care? BTS borrowed money it could never have paid back from idiot bankers, mainly foreign, including the World Bank, to build the thing. It would have been foreclosed on in most countries but the Thai courts allowed the case to drag on for years and forced the creditors to to accept 40 cents in the dollar. BTS should also forgive 60% of the BMA debts in the public interest and in recognition of kindness shown to them by the courts and their creditores.

It is not the Supreme Court. It is the Supreme Court for Political Office Holders.

The main issue was that Anutin was running out of time to fulfill his campaign pledge of legalisation and avoid being seen as a failure by the electorate at next year's elections. Originally he must have hoped the Cannabis and Hemp Bill cold be passed at about the same time or soon after decriminalisation. But in the end he had to go it alone and push the button on a one page ministerial decree to legalise with less than a year to go before the end of the government's term and the threat of the government collapsing or Prayut dissolving parliament at any moment. The blocking of the Cannabis Bill by his fellow coalition partners in the Democrat Party for self-serving political reasons was an unexpected and bitter blow after they had voted for the first reading in June a few days after decriminalisation. The other issue was the smoke and mirrors effect of Anutin convincing people that recreational use would still be illegal after decriminalisation because extracts wiht over 0.2% would still be illegal, without mentioning extracts were not necessary for recreational use. In fact they are used more for medicinal purposes. This created a backlash from conservatives who had been too lazy to read the one pager that decriminalised weed and suddenly realised that buds were legal. Yes, there is a lack of QC on the buds, since a two tier market developed for rich stoners who can afford to pay 700 baht a gram for imported organic buds in dispensaries and the have nots who continued smoking the brickweed that comes in from plantations owned by Thai influential figures in Laos at 2.5 baht a gram. The brickweed produced with pesticides and from moldy weed was always there and will continue to be there underground if they recriminalise but the imported organic buds will all but disappear. So that the QC problem will get worse under recriminalisation. It's hard to see demand or supply disappearing overnight as a result of recriminalisation, if they do it. Incidentally I don't think Anutin's claim that he only ever wanted to legalise for medical use is in any way credible. Before decriminalisatin they had already carved out sufficient exemptions allowing medical use. So, there was no need to legalise fully, if medical use was the sole objective. Anyway medical demand is pretty small and the big money has always been in recreational use. The daughter of Newin, the founder and power behind the scenes of Anutin's BJP party, who has plantations openly in Thailand was clear about that in a BBC interview. The plantations of BJP backers that are visible in Thailand must be only the tip of the iceberg. Having said all that I think it was a calculated gamble by Anutin to get his policies through and without the Democrats putting a spoke in the wheel, his policy might be in reasonable shape. On balance it would be good for Thailand to maintain a relatively open cannabis policy and continue to allow tourists to get access to it. You could say Thai tourism has it all: Sun, Sand, Sea, Sex and Sativa. Amsterdam admits that roughly a third of its tourism is attracted by the dope. Then there is the red light district, which pales in comparison to Thailand's equivalent industry.

Seems like there was a chaotic cabinet meeting, while Anutin was abroad, where the director general of the Herbs dept that issued the latest decree as a stopgap for the stalled Cannabis Bill was grilled and couldn't answer many of the questions because they were outside his narrow jurisdiction. Sounds like Wissanu may have stepped in to put the matter up for discussion by the ONCB tomorrow with himself chairing the meeting, although he is nothing to do with the ONCB which is under the Justice Ministry. Wissanu is a snake who can't be trusted in any way. I guess, as as one of the triumvirate of junta "legal experts", his role here is to find a way to either tighten up laws or get cannabis banned again. Wissanu said proposals made at the ONCB meeting will be sent to the cabinet for further discussion which means he already has a set of proposals for the the ONCB to rubber stamp. The ONCB's legal role is that under the Narcotics Act it has to approve any amendments made to the categories of controlled substances. The minister of public health has the power to make amendments with the consent of the ONCB without the need for parliamentary scrutiny or cabinet resolutions. So it is the only body that has any say apart from the minister, which is obviously why Wissanu is dragging it into the equation. So far the ONCB has been amenable to all the cannabis liberalisation moves proposed to it by Anutin but with Wissanu orchestrating things the ONCB may go along with whatever he has decided. If Wissanu pushes the ONCB to declare it made a horrible mistake and would not have approved legalisation, if it knew what was going to happen and that the Cannabis Bill would not be passed, that would obviously put Anutin under huge pressure to recriminalise. However, the sec gen of the ONCB might resist as it would imply that he made a colossal blunder in failing to protect the public and ought to resign. This whole situation has been caused by the Democratic Party's U-turn in refusing to vote for the second reading of the Cannabis Bill, after wholeheartedly supporting the first reading. Their own support has waned even further after a well known sexual harrasser was appointed deputy leader and the party leader refused to resign to take responsibility for that. Having been wiped out in Bangkok, it is under threat from Anutin's Bhum Jai Thai Party in its remaining power base in the South. Changing sides to oppose BJP's Cannabis Bill and pushing for recriminalisation was seen by the Dems as a desperate opportunistic move to head off the threat from BJP to its Southern seats in the next election, as Muslim clerics have voiced opposition to the legalisation.

Most landlords will not cooperate with requests for tabien baan registration at their properties. They have to do some paperwork for you and to report again that you have gone. Many rental properties don’t have a householder which is essential to register occupants and they are not going to assign a tenant to be the householder. You need to buy your own condo in Bkk or get on a friend’s tabien baan there. The cabinet resolved in Jan 2022 to axe Special a branch from the citizenship process completely and give the whole thing to the Interior Ministry to administer from beginning to end, including processing initial applications in DOPA (Dept of Provincial Administration) offices the provinces. DOPA has been drafting new ministerial regulations for this, including for new Thai language tests, which are intended to take effect in early 2023. These will be only the second set of ministerial regulations pursuant to the 1965 Nationality Act. The first regulations were issued in 1967 but new ministerial guidelines that don’t have to be announced in the Royal Gazette and thus don’t have force of law were last issued in 2009. Special Branch only has one dedicated office for citizenship applications which is in Bangkok and they has been happy to take applications from people who line the provinces, knowing that SB offices in other provinces were ill equipped to handle applications. They were happy to overlook the fact these applicants had only cosmetic tabien baans in Bkk. But it is too early to say how this situation is going to pan out under DOPA. if you are ready to go with your application, it is probably worth getting a tabien baan in Bkk and applying with SB while the Bkk office is still functioning. Otherwise I Wouk’s hold off re-registering in Bkk until the new regulations are issued and there is Mor clarity about they will be applied.

I support nuclear power, as it is the only viable option for the world. But exceptions should be made for incompetent, corrupt countries like Thailand that are clearly incapable of maintaining nuclear facilities safely.

They are discussing a jv to produce bonesaws to be distributed to all Saudi Thai embassies and consulates world wide for security purposes.

Leaders of vassal states don't get handshakes from the emperor. Funny that Prayut tried to make it look as if he had stretched out his hand in an ushering gesture after the emperor had snubbed him.

What BS. It is not illegal to pick up a prostitute. Under the Prostitution Act main offences are: Prositutes causing a nuisance by soliciting. Keeping a baudy house. Customs having commercial sex with under 18 year olds. I suppose that doesn't stop Pattaya BiB telling Indian tourists it is against the law.

Not really a good excuse, if the surgeon didn't bother to tell him. You mean you think it's OK not to tell the patient and ask permission verbally, as long as it is slipped into the written form, possibly after he signed it?