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3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Those prices quoted are insane. Hopefully competition will sort that out. In the US, you can get very high end stuff for around $300 an ounce. That equates to around 350 baht per gram. 

Ya, and American wages, land values, regulation costs, and taxation are sky high. The cost of production in Thailand can't be more than a third of that in the USA. At 150 baht/gram Thai sellers would still be making more profit than American counterparts.

There will be a tsunami of outdoor weed flooding the market by the end of the year. Going to the farmers market will be a lot of fun ????  

1 hour ago, wombat said:

With the cost of living here being said to be 30% of living in seppo land then 30% of whatever you pay there would be a starting point imho

Agree - with the much lower cost of production for wages, taxes, and land that puts fair retail cost here around 70 baht/gram.  The retail shops targeting farangs and charging 400-600/gram are really taking advantage of the moment. I for one won't forget it ????

What is the fair price for premium buds in Thailand? 

California has a legal weed market, and top grade buds are $USD 6-7/gram - so less that 250 baht per gram.

Cost of production; 

• California's minimum wage is about 4,000 baht/day - most workers earn more. Those wages are paid to all of the workers in the marijuana production, distribution, and retail supply chain.
• California land and rental prices are some of the highest in the world
• California taxes the heck out of all the Marijuana businesses involved in the production and supply chain, plus adds a per pound tax on harvested plants and a per ounce tax on retail weed.
• The licensing process in California is expensive and takes a long time

Thailand's cost of production;

• Thailand's minimum wage is 10% of that in California
• Thailand's land and rental prices are significantly less than California to say the least
• Thailand doesn't currently have any special taxes or licensing on Marijuana (ya that might change soon but it's unlikely to be huge)

So if California can produce top quality buds at 250 baht per gram - what's the right price in Thailand? 

The weed tourism market is just a small fraction of the potential benefit.

Thailand's low cost of labor, land values, and lack of government taxation could set Thailand with one of the lowest cost of weed production in the world. Growing weed is no more labor intensive than growing rice, and export value would be thousands of dollars per kilo vs about a dollar for rice. The demand will grow as laws are eased globally. Add in the export of Marijuana infused foods, drinks, and oils and it'll start to add up to some real money ????

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

It might help to attract an extra 10,000 tourists a month. Maybe. And let us not forget, these tourists that it attracts are the polar opposite of the type of tourist that they have been wanting to attract. A form of surrender? 

Well, the "tourists that they have been wanting to attract" are people from India. So far I've seen more single Indian male travelers than Indian families. I don't agree that "weed tourists" are their polar opposite, nor that "weed tourists" would spend less which is of course what the tourism sector really needs. 

It's silly to project that everyone that enjoys alcohol is a derelict alcoholic. Likewise, weed smokers come from all walks of life, and not everyone that smokes weed is a lazy hippie ???? 

11 minutes ago, robert888d said:

What a stupid decision, which will have disastrous consequences in years to come, when more brain defects in younger people, more traffic accidents,  and more cancers and more people then going on to harder drugs like heroin etc.Money,money,money for the already greedy rich.

Dude - thinking has evolved a bit since Reefer Madness was release in 1932, but congrats on surviving this long with your head in the sand ????

1 hour ago, JoePai said:

1 hour ago, trainman34014 said:

Running away from responsibility in Thailand is par for the course; as is lousy driving.   The School Truck looks well past its sell by date before the 'accident' occurred and i would bet if it was inspected by 'proper' Ministry of Transport Engineers it would be condemed to the scrap heap instead of being allowed to carry Children !

Seems he did not run away at first - only when he saw the parents coming at him - can't blame him for that !

Roadside justice in Thailand can be brutal. I once saw a group of 8 locals kick the <deleted> out of a drunk motorbike rider that hit a little girl. So many that they politely waited their turns kicking him as he lay on the ground. 

There is little chance the truck driver will evade the cops - I imagine he'd just rather take his chances with the cops than have a bunch of angry parents stop his ass on the side of the road ????

"Thailand can play important diplomatic role in Ukraine-Russia conflict ahead of APEC"

Wow - what a massively over-inflated estimate of Thailand's importance on the world stage ????

16 minutes ago, Mitkof Island said:

Those morons are far from anything normal.

Are you talking about the full moon partiers or the government spokesmen?

Dare say she would do a roaring business in melons and papayas too ???? 

"according to government spokesman Thankorn Wangbungkhongchana's comments...the famed "Full Moon Party" in Koh Phangan (June 14th) is set to be something of a watershed moment for what the spokesman called the NEXT NORMAL."

So a maskless ecstasy and alcohol fueled super spreader event is Thailand's approach to rebranding as the "Next Normal"? This is after all the bla bla bla about restructuring Thailand's tourism industry around more affluent family travelers.  

The full moon parties and "normal" really don't belong in the same sentence ????