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You obviously have never spent time inside. I doubt he is will be set upon in any way by fellow prisoners.

And child sexual assault doesn't carry the same stigma it would in a western prison.

Personally I am much happier to accept that they are Russians rather than Ukranians despite your insinuation that Ukranians are dodgier than Russians (which I find hard to believe). I just hope they are caught.

It literally is, lol. One isolated incident in a class I would not use is not going to deter me from train travel.

I hate these people smuggling marijuana out of Thailand. They give the government more ammunition to use against the marijuana legalisation in Thailand. I'd like to see them get the maximum penalty wherever they are caught. They ruin a good situation for the rest of us.

Totally agree. A good group stomping is what it's about in Patong and Pattaya.

Can I safely assume that when I arrive on July 15 for a month that I will be able to buy as usual through any of the 8000 outlets? That if anything is likely to change, it's not going to happen that quickly?

That's you not other people. Only newbees experience the type of reactions you describe. I have been using weed for 50 year, the last 10 vaping it. Basically I now just use it as a sleep aid and to wind down before bed. I get medical marijuana here in Australia. With the vaporizer, there is nothing in the way of an odour to offend the likes of yourself. I can't understand why Thailand makes the obtaining of a weed vaporizer so difficult.

Nothing like a bit of hyperbole. As for the reference to families, recreational use is allowed in many countries and medicinal use in many more. I hardly think foreign children are going to be exposed to anything more than they would be back home. I would rather let my children catch a whiff of marijuana than witness the soi 6 bouncers or drunk aggressive foreigners in action.

Not without money.

Pigs eat human faeces. I know that from my time in Goa many years back. So do dogs, but dogs eating dog faeces, particularly their own, is a fairly rare condition.

Are you a drug smuggler? Spy?

I only use cash for travel so carry quite a bit. I must confess to keeping it in my bag in an overhead compartment on planes, largely because I have always figured that I could trust people who could afford an airline ticket and had never heard of anyone being robbed on a plane. However, as with dog meat, bear bile, pangolin scale medicines and Cambodian call centres with imprisoned workers, the Chinese have brought to my attention yet another area of life to which I previously never gave much thought. I will be vigilant on future trips.

I was waiting for someone to blame the cannabis. Never mind the 99.99% who use it without incident. Or the influence of other drugs used at the same time - nitrous acid and probably alcohol in this case.

I think the outcome has much less to do with the '<deleted>' than it does with the person.