Dogmatix

The DMS faulted the trial in the US, Mexico and Brazil and cited in its place a trial done in Thailand with a laughably small smaple of 93 patients. It is impossible to find any evidence online of any trials that proved its efficacy apart from this Thai study. Favi has also been widely used in India and other third world countries due to its low production cost and the "better than nothing" approach of doctors but none have proved its efficacy. Most, if not all of the drug used for COVID may have been produced illegally, since the copyright owner, Fujifilm, has announced it would not market it is as a COVID treatment due to inconclusive trials. https://www.fujifilm.com/fftc/en/avigan Lots of the stuff has been first imported from China and then made in Thailand and given to Thai patients for reasons that remain unclear. Of course it is possible that it is mildly effective against COVID, despite the lack of evidence, and that it does no harm. I hope it is the case as my family was given it for COVID and were convinced that it must be effective, if govenment doctors said so. It is or was available from govenment clinics just on production of an ID card and a statement that the ID holder had tested positive. Motor cycle taxis could pick it up. The option was Green Chiretta for which there is also no evidence of efficacy.

This is not something that can be discussed here.

He was always rumoured to be a "bagman", whatever that means, for Prawit when he was head of Immigration. He used to travel all over the country on important but often unspecified missions and did things like investigating illegal casinos that were nothing to do with Immigration. Then he allegedly upset someone rather important and had to be removed temporarily from the police, with only Prawit's intervention allegedly saving him from prison. After an appropriate period on the bench with many wais and apologies Prawit was apparently to arrange for his rehab back into the police. This new appointment shows that Prawit is still pulling all the strings, as he was with Brother Prayut as the front man, but now openly. Big Joke's rise will come to an end if Big Pom (Prawit) loses power or Big Joke hits retirement, whichever comes first.

They have a page marked "extracts". I wonder how they guarantee not more than 0.2% THC.

Wrong. It was designed to prevent Thaksin from being PM for too long. In his case the court might oblige with a ruling that his time as PM in the noughties did count towards the 8 years.

Right now it is not illegal to buy or sell weed online and thousands of Thais are selling on FB and LINE. Once the Cannabis and Hemp Act is passed it will be illegal to sell it without a licence but not to buy it. But whether hash has been decriminalised or not is open to interpretation. Any part of the plant that is not extracted legal and hash strictly speaking is pressed tricomes with some gentle heat applied, similar to brick weed, or even just rolled in the bare hands. No boiling or addition of chemicals and nothing is extracted because nothing is discarded. But whether the police and courts will consider it an extract or not remains to be seen.

His uncle involved himself by trying to silence the accuser with offers of cash and work in his entertainment business and by telling the media that his nephew will improve the country by going into politics. But Yes. I guess there are hundreds of rapes in Thailand every day and most go unreported or ignored by the media, if they are reported. But the accuser and the accused are well known figures. So more interesting to the media.

His uncle said he was going into politics to improve the country and his grandfather was once Minister for Foreign Affairs. So he must be innocent. He would be a great choice to sit on the parliamentary committee for promotion of women's rights like Prinn did before he got kicked out due to multiple rape charges.

They should stop taking bribes forthwith but borrowing luxury homes, cars, watches etc from deceased friends is perfectly fine and the practice has been endorsed by a ruling of the NACC.

"Thailand grapples with allowing more Chinese landowners." Most of the land and most of the businesses in Thailand are already owned by Chinese from earlier immigration waves. They also control the bureaucracy and nearly all MPs are Chinese. The new wave of Chinese landowners use Thai proxies and fake Thai ID cards. They don't wait for new laws. The law under discussion is not a new law anyway. It was an amendment to the Land Code in 1999. Compared to existing Chinese ownership of land and ongoing illegal purchases by Chinese, 1 rai of residential land under extremely restrictive conditions will make no difference to the equation whatsoever, if they revive that existing law with new ministerial regulations which is what is proposed but not clearly articulated by the government or media.

This is not a new case. It first came up in 2019 with a smaller amount of 227 million. Perhaps the news should be that it took NACC three years to fire him. I wonder what cases he worked on in that time. https://www.thaipbsworld.com/senior-nacc-official-faulted-for-omitting-227m-baht-from-asset-declaration/ He was on the junta’s National Reform Committee which unsurprisingly led to no reforms prior to joining the NACC. He is obviously very well connected. I wonder who he crossed so he couldn’t sort this all out. Originally his wife was caught by AMLO taking excessive commissions from a PTT subsidiary in Indonesia as a land broker there. I wonder if she’s ever been there. No suggestion that any PTT executives are being prosecuted for approving the commissions.

It seems gender discriminatory (and possibly racially discriminatory) to question fathers travelling with their own children and not mothers. What if the mother couldn't be contacted? Perhaps worth travelling with a letter from the mother giving permission in addition to birth certificate showing you as father. Although that could easily be forged, it might head them off, if the mother can't be contacted. I wonder if same would happen if the child used a farang passport. Would it happen with a Thai born father who didn't look farang? I doubt it. The IO must have profiled you as as the type of farang who, regardless of having gone to enormous trouble to obtain Thai citizenship, abducts his look krung daughter to carry her off to a better life in the West far from drinking and gambling ex-bar girl mother who abuses her. A crime to be stopped at all costs 555.

I have seen quite a few websites now describing their bakery products as being THC or even made with butter made with THC extract which seems illegal, although that is the common recipe for edibles and probably most use it. One website said they used full spectrum cannabis without specifying estimated proportions of THC and CBD. That could imply they just decarb the weed, grind it up and throw it in the mix. If merely heating weed is not considered a form of extraction, then these products might be theoretically legal. I imagine there will be a shake out in the edibles business before long. A few incidents of newbie tourists eating brownies clearly labelled as CBD, eating the whole thing and ending up in psychotic comas could trigger it. At any rate there will no doubt be more clarity at some point as to what constitutes an extract.

They did a good job legalizing cannabis. it is now legal.

You have to do 100 days in the Pathum Thani provincial jail to pay off the maximum overstay fine of THB 20,000 at the rate of THB 200 per day. But, since it costs them money to keep you in there, the amount they recover through this process is actually negative.

The TFDA approval is all well and good but I am not rushing my 1.5 year old boy to get a vaccine. I am not an anti-vaxxer and have been vaccinated and boosted myself. I am just more nervous about the long term effects on youngsters who have their whole lives ahead of them. And children seem less vulnerable to COVID too. He had COVID last month and recovered after 3 days of fever and symptoms. My own symptoms lingered much longer.

Herd immunity from coronaviruses is a myth. It has not happened with the common cold and the immunity you get from COVID infection is unlikely to last more than 1-3 months. Some people are getting repeat infections a month after recovering from the previous infection.

At the end of last month my son came down with a high grade fever which turned out to be COVID. All beds in the Samitivej Sukhumvit COVID ward were full at the time and we were told to call round other hospitals which mainly had no COVID beds available either. Eventually we got him into the COVID ward at Samitivej and he recovered in a three days but his mother got sick looking after him. My son was discharged as soon as his fever went down and symptoms improved to free up a bed for another COVID patient. When I picked them up both were still positive and my wife had only been positive for a day and was presumably highly infectious. I picked them up from the lobby where other non-COVID patients were milling about. There are no special arrangements to get COVID patients in and out without contacting other patients and there are longer any COVID precautions in the lobby. Anyway the hospitals must have realised that the temperature checks didn't keep COVID out. I went down to Hua Hin when my family had COVID to reverse isolate and was informed by our condo manager that there were also no beds available for COVID patients there. Maybe the situation has improved in the hospitals but I doubt it. I have had COVID denyers arguing that there were no COVID wards in Bangkok last month just because they couldn't see them, but I have a hospital bill to prove it.

At least the foreign stoners cannot be considered criminals any more. Should be a high high season for them. 555. No money for the BiB in passing joints to backpackers and then arresting them. Too bad. Passing around yaba pills or fake ecstacy to entrap them will arouse suspicion and most prefer weed anyway.

There is no mention of Russian criminals who are presumably more than welcome.

Interesting. I take the point that it is not easy to ensure that edibles contain only CBD or no more than 0.2% THC. Small producers for cafes etc are unlikely to have the expertise or the properly calibrated measuring equipment to keep THC under 0.2%. It is going to be very hard to police. Cops could just haul away everything and demand bribes, as the owners know that police forensics always come up with the requested results. This could be lucrative for cops but would kill the edibles industry which has developed over the last couple of years and most of the cannabis teas and dishes are very low THC even if not exactly 0.2%. That would cause a backlash from all the small business owners and the people who voted for Bhumjai Thai. Thaksin might try though, if he got into power. Everyone remembers his brutal war on drugs aimed at cutting off his son's supplies.

Where did you find a cooky with 25mg of THC? I thought all edibles were restricted to CBD and not more than 0.2% THC but have seen reports on YouTube of tourists being unexpectedly blasted to the moon with brownies labelled as CBD only. And some cafes reportedly offer a "happier" browny at a higher price. Seems a bit dodgy if tourists are inadvertently getting super stoned while expecting only hoping for CBD buzz to deal with their aches and pains and insomnia. But if people know what they are getting into, fair dinkum. Being on a bad trip in a strange city can't be much fun, paricularly if they are not used to it.

I missed a wedding in New York recently as I couldn't go because I had COVID. I attended online and only about 3 people out of 150 wore masks. A few days after the wedding at least 40 people who were there came down with COVID, including the bride and groom, their parents and the two photographers. As far as Thailand is concerned the situation should be decided on the ability of hospitals to cope with severely ill COVID patients. The current situation is that they can't cope with any more, as all the wards are full in Bangkok and in Hua Hin and probably other tourist resorts. I know because my son was seriously ill with COVID at the end of last month and only got admitted to a private hospital because he had a false negative rapid test at first and kicked him out of the room the next morning when his PCR result test came through. (They told me I would have had to call around other hospitals looking for a room, if he had initially tested positive. Then they were stuck with him and put him and his mother in a converted broom cupboard with a toilet in the middle of the room for a day until someone checked out of the COVID ward. The COVID nurses were fully stretched and hardly did anything. His mother had to give him his medice, feed him and take his temperature and he cried from morning till night. The lack of hospital capacity means that unmasked elderly tourists who might get severe disease will not be able to get hospital treatment promptly, if at all, regardless of whether they have medical insurance or not. Thai friends with hospital connections offered to try to get my son a bed in another hospital when he was in the broom cupboard. Foreign tourists don't have connections here and will be last in the queue. The government is desparate for foreign exchange and doesn't want to admit they are up against capacity constraints in the hospials. But this may be woth bearing in mind when going about unmasked and saying you're done with COVID and moving on with your life etc. Fortunately Omicron is a mild disease for most but there are still some severe cases and deaths. Ask yourself, "Is this my lucky day?"

There'll be a lot more beeping after the Constitutional Court's decision that Prayut is exempt from the 8 year term restriction because it was only intended for Thaksin or his nominees.

She was a pretty girl and still good looking. Nat brightened up many lives by being to prepared to show a leg in front of the camera and <deleted> off my missus 55. Cut her a bit of slack or a bit of firm depending on your feeling.