Spock

Go home if you want a sanitised life. Foreigners originally enjoyed the ability to get away from a life governed by rules, regulations and bans but now seem to want an environment that is stricter than their home country.

The vaping ban extends to weed too which makes a mockery of the medicinal marijuana industry. There is nothing medicinal in smoking weed yet there are no vaporisers available locally..

It does really, because vaccines are updated to target new strains, with the vaccine's efficacy posssibly lagging if struggling to keep up.

I was thinking you could have saved yourself time and effort byleaving out the first 2 paragraphs and just going with the last one.

Not many Americans come to Thailand anyway in comparison to other countries. No one will be shutting down a business because of fewer Americans.

Personally I'd rather see coutries stand up to him rather than cave in as you say Vietnam has done.

In the old days when we got thai sticks in the west, the myth abounded that they were laced in heroin. Always struck me as stupid that importers would risk bringing in harder drugs with cannabis or that financially this was a viable practice in Thailand. It's just a nonsense. And why Fentanyl? Wouldn't it be more profitable selling it alone on the blackmarket? Also a weed user is unlikely to get into opiates.

I knew someone. My next door neighbour's son. But he got into it as a teenager which is when the psychological effects will occur to those with a predisposition for it. But it's really hard to tell apart the nature of his condition, which switched from bipolar to now autistic, and the effects of marijuana. Lithium was also the one drug that stopped him tipping over the edge and ceasing taking that drug had far more effect on his behaviour than his experimentation with cannabis.

You mean straight people who are probably way of of step with their own communities back home.

Prescriptions in Australia are generally for 5 or 6 quantities of 10gm, perhaps more, with a similar limit of 30 grams a month. In a low use situation, this means that a script could last 3-4 months or more. Thailand's 30 day prescription is going to force users to the doctor too often, more than necessary given that weed is going to be prescribed for chronic rather than acute cases. If medical weed goes the way it has in Australia, it will simply become a means for recreational users to obtain it on medical grounds.

I messaged the shop I buy from when staying in Rangsit on the Thursday and was assured it was still selling. Got a Thai mate to go buy for me next day (I am not yet in Thailand), and it was closed. He asked the shopowner next door what had happened and was directed to another shop 5 km away where he bought me enough to last me the month. Then the postponment was announced the same day and I was annoyed with myself for panicking, but your comment makes me glad that I did. You just don't know what this government is going to do from day to day. As an aside, if the Thai government wants only medical marijuana, it really needs to consider the method of consumption of the flower. Weed vaporisers are not readily available in Thailand and smoking is itself a health hazard. But users are not left with much choice as to how the weed is consumed. The other advantage of vaporizers is that they give off very little smell which would allay the major concern of many on here.

They didn't know that when it closed anymore than I did buying up in bulk using a Thai friend intermediary over the phone and in the store. You do what you think you have to do rather than be sorry afterwards. Unfortunately the flip flopping thai govt makes a mockery of best laid plans.

Lots of places closing. My shop for instance told me business as usual Thursday morning and by Saturday it was closed.

They did not win the election. The party with most votes is no longer in office. The election was stolen by them.

But they were allowed! If they weren't, no one stopped them, hence the 18000 dispensaries that opened and countless groweres. No one was being arrested or prosecuted. Given it seemed that whether intended or not recreational use seem there to stay, why would people seek to supply the market. They were doing nothing illegal, just making a living like anyone else.