Dogmatix

Sounds like the sense of this was lost in translation as it makes no sense.

There are huge vested interests behind this but Anutin is playing to the gallery to head off the backlash from the anti-legalization lobby which includes Thaksin whose party will probably win the next election. Anutin knows he needs to get into the next government or his sponsors’ cannabis businesses will be wrecked. I am sure they want tourists to smoke as much as they can.

Thailand can become a global hub for all night ravers, stoners, magic mushroom eaters, gamblers and whoremongers. The skills and competitive edge are already in place. It just needs a friendly, anything goes, regulatory framework.

"He also said that the cannabis bill would be completely drafted this week and be then proposed to the House of Representatives right away." Actually the Cannabis and Hemp Bill has already been drafted and passed its first reading in the House in June or July. The summary shown on parliament's website indicated that there are no clauses restricting recreational use but most of it is about license fees for vendors. Actually it is very similar to the Cannabis and Hemp Act from the 1930s before Thailand got involved in the US war on drugs and criminalized it. It could be that the Cannabis and Hemp Bill will have some amendments before its second reading but I doubt that there is any plant to restrict recreational use. Everyone knows that the big money is recreational use and there are a lot of vested interests riding on it. However, it is incumbent on Anutin and the government to maintain the fiction that legalisation was done purely to facilitate medicinal use. If that were true, they would set up a system alowing sales only on prescription and for Thai citizens and foreign residents only. But that would have severely resticted potential sales volumes and profits.

It seems likely that there is some sort of a deal between PPRP and PT made by Prawit on the PPRP side that excludes Prayut, who is now seen as a liability. That PPRP MPs, presumably with the blessing of Prawit, should go against Prayut to sabotage his effort to confirm the divide by 500 amendment by not showing up to make quorum doesn't make any sense unless there is an unholy alliance between PPRP and PT. Divide by 100 will eliminate the smaller parties who have supported Prayut completely as they will get no party seats and are unlikely to win constituency seats. It will be a huge advantage to PT which will mop up party list seats. Initially Prayut favoured divide by 100, as he naively believed PPRP was still as popular as PT and would also stand to gain a lot of party list seats. But when the reality of the party's declining popularity, as well as his own, struck home, he launched a rear guard action to go for divide by 500, which was ostensibly agreed to by PPRP but its leadership has worked behind the scenes to sabotage the amendment to 500 and, by proxy, to sabotage Prayut from running for PM again. Most likely PPRP MPs who have failed to show up to make quorum are also hoping to jump ship and join PT as a reward for blowing up the 500 amendment. Many of them were bought over from PT or other parties anyway and have no long term allegiances. Prawit knows that Prayut's time is up and is eager to find a way to retain power at least behind the scenes and a pact with the devil in the form of Thaksin could facilitate that. The article mentioned Move Forward as a wild card but didn't mention anything about BJP and Anutin. I would think that PT would find it easier to do a deal with BJP than PPRP, in the event that it fails to win an absolute majority. Anutin could also perhaps be a compromise PM candidate that the Senate might be more willing to vote for than Thaksin's daughter or another PT nominee, such as Chadchart, if he gives up the Bangkok governorship to take a PT nomination for PM. After an ineffectual response to COVID in 2021, Anutin has redeemed himself with his base by fulfilling his campaign pledge to legalise ganja and his support from his base is probably as strong as ever but BJP support is rather localized to Buriram and contiguous Northeast provinces. So it will never be big enough to be a threat to PT. I am sure PT will do very well under the divide by 100 amendment but whether they get an absolute majority or do a deal with PPRP or BJP remains to be seen. A deal with MFP seems unlikely as, although Thanathorn is not directly opposed to Thaksin, he will not want to compromise his ideals to do a deal with someone who basically has no ideals at all but is in it for power, greed and revenge. Visibly cosying up to Prawit and PPRP will make Thaksin anethema to Thanathorn and his loyal supporters. But as the article points out, PT and MFP will be fighting for votes from the same pool.

I tried the pop up shop in Hua Hin Market Village but I can’t recommend. All his stuff smelt the same and looked the same. So I bought a gram of the cheapest for 600. I think he had picked the buds out of some low grade brick weed because there was very little effect. Looks like he set up just to chisel tourists making one off purchases out of curiosity. Most are not going to complain because they don’t know what to expect.

This one sends me messages on Messenger after I clicked his ad on FB. I haven’t tried yet. Hundreds of sellers of brick weed on FB market place down to B3,500 a kg.

After NIA may be OK in most cases these days but personally I would hold a WP until at least the MOI interview. They have not been asking to see docs at the MOI recently but in the past they did and that could easily revert back again, if a new person takes over and thinks things have become too slack. Some were actually called to MOI to have their WPs checked for continuity before they would schedule an interview and were told their applications would have been axed, if past and current WPs had not been in order. There is also the fairly rare case that the MOI is unhappy about the way SB put the application together and knocks it back to them to get employment letter redone snd re-verify docs. If you can keep working a big longer I would. Even if a small risk, it is a risk and it would be a shame to get axed with no way of reapplying, if you have already retired and can’t set up a new 3 year work record.

Not true. That is just a pretense. Bhumjai Thai knows the big money is in recreational and that is what they are profiting from now.

Medpark in Bangkok has Moderna on a walk in basis for THB 1,650,.

Foreigners not allowed to work in retail under the Royal Decree of professions reserved for Thais, in the sense of being a retail sales assistant, but they are allowed to be involved in a retail business as a manager, training officer, advisor etc. Law is a reserved profession too but how many farang lawyers are there. They all have WPs saying admin manager, advisor, training manager etc.

Basically Chuwit said nothing.

So Gen Watchman had nothing to do with the coup whatsoever. Who’d have guessed. He was very lucky to get such a big job in the coup government in that case.

Sex game for him maybe but not for Gift.

555 My introduction to porn aged 11 was when my dear papa came back to England from New York and pulled a Playboy (not yet published in the UK) from his bag that he claimed he found left on a plane and thought his sons might be interested to read it. He got an earful from my dear mama and who confiscated the Playboy saying it was destined for imminent destruction. Fortunately Papa saved it from from the fire and brimstone and hid it in his wardrobe where it was soon discovered by my brother and myself. Inside was a delightful full page spread of Ursula Andress which made us feel all tingly like goosebumps. Soon the Playboy was making regular visits to the nearby public park where we showed it to male friends who also experienced the same tingly sensations. It got fairly dogeared but was always faithfully returned to the bottom of Papa's wardrode under his shoe bags after use. We never knew if he noticed the additional wear and tear. One day it was discovered by Mama again with a shriek and finally ended its days ignomiously in the trash after giving great pleasure to a large number of little boys who all became instant fans of Miss Andress.

Tiime was a lot of porn clips with the word Thai in the title was successfully blocked, so I am told, but now the only thing blocked is Pornhub for some egregious transgression that had nothing to with porn. Even that is easily accessible by using a VPN. Seems an uphill task and a total waste of taxpayers baht.

Thammanart's cobra boys will earn some good money from the government again, just like in the last no confident debate. In the stock market it's called green mail. You take up positions to make it look like you are mounting a hostile takeover of a company, driving up the price in the process. Then at the last minute you duck out and cash out at a big profit (of course leaving small shareholders who followed holding the bag). PPRP will have to pay up big bucks just to have another 6 months in office. It's all a yawn now because it's so predictable.