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Report Pattaya’s Smoking Crackdown: Expats Voice Concerns
Spock replied to snoop1130's topic in Pattaya News
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. -
Report Pattaya’s Smoking Crackdown: Expats Voice Concerns
Spock replied to snoop1130's topic in Pattaya News
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.. -
Health New COVID-19 Sub-Variant XFG Emerges in Thailand
Spock replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
It does really, because vaccines are updated to target new strains, with the vaccine's efficacy posssibly lagging if struggling to keep up. -
Health Thai Activist Proposes Sex Ban for Under-22s to Tackle HIV Surge
Spock replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
I was thinking you could have saved yourself time and effort byleaving out the first 2 paragraphs and just going with the last one. -
Economy Trump Dishes Out 36% Tariffs in Shock Move Against Thailand
Spock replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Not many Americans come to Thailand anyway in comparison to other countries. No one will be shutting down a business because of fewer Americans. -
Economy Trump Dishes Out 36% Tariffs in Shock Move Against Thailand
Spock replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Personally I'd rather see coutries stand up to him rather than cave in as you say Vietnam has done. -
Report Cannabis Chaos: 12,000 Thai Shops Face Closure Under New Rules
Spock replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
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. -
Report Cannabis Chaos: 12,000 Thai Shops Face Closure Under New Rules
Spock replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
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. -
Report Cannabis Chaos: 12,000 Thai Shops Face Closure Under New Rules
Spock replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
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.
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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.
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BREAKING NEWS Thailand delays some requirements of new cannabis rules
Spock replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
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. -
BREAKING NEWS Thailand delays some requirements of new cannabis rules
Spock replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Lots of places closing. My shop for instance told me business as usual Thursday morning and by Saturday it was closed. -
BREAKING NEWS Thailand delays some requirements of new cannabis rules
Spock replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
They did not win the election. The party with most votes is no longer in office. The election was stolen by them. -
Report Struggling Cannabis Farms Fear New Regulations in Thailand
Spock replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
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. -
Report Struggling Cannabis Farms Fear New Regulations in Thailand
Spock replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
I feel sorry for the people who have been lulled into believe the previous state of affairs would continue, only to be rudely hit with the about face in regulations. Posters criticising growers and sellers for not adhering to the strictly medical side of legalisation ignore the fact that recreational use has been allowed to flourish, through fault only of politicians and authorities that made no attempt to enforce a medicinal only approach. There's no end of posters prepared to place the entire blame for the hardships caused by policy reversal squarly on the shoulders of the industry workers rather than the framers and administrators of the legislation. I am coming for a couple of moths in two weeks and got a Thai mate to buy for me yesterday, then I will investigate the ease or otherwise with which a prescription can be obtained. If difficult or impossible, despite living 6 years at one time in the country and speaking Thai, I will go elsewhere next year. Sure the legalislation has been badly handled as you could expect it might be by politicians who can't see beyond the end of their nose. But it's ordinary Thai people who will have to pay for their mistakes. I hope that medicinal use will actually seem more like recreational use with medical approval as is the case in Australia and supply, THC levels remain largely unaltered as people acquire prescriptions for their sudden chronic conditions. -
Report Thailand Tightens Alcohol Sales: New Rules Take Effect
Spock replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
You're the type that would have rejoiced at the new marijuana laws too. You would need to be wealthy to drink to excess at the airport, unless you do as me and buy a can of beer from 7/11 then drink it while charging your phone. Not that I have more than one or two. I prefer to wait for a few freebies on the plane.In any case, in many years of travelling I cannot recall one incident involving an inebriated person. -
Report New Cannabis Regulation: Prescription Required for Sales
Spock replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Chronic pain is generally covered by medical marijuana. -
Report New Cannabis Regulation: Prescription Required for Sales
Spock replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
There are some really stitched up farangs in Thailand these days. Can't imagine sitting and having a friendly chat with any of them. Giving a thumbs down to someone simply because they are able to buy a personal quantity from a store to consume quietly in private just indicates how intolerant and narrow minded they are.- 175 replies
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Report New Cannabis Regulation: Prescription Required for Sales
Spock replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
My shop is still selling. I will stock up. -
Report Thailand to Reclassify Cannabis as Controlled Substance
Spock replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Families and children are more likely to be exposed to marijuana in their home country rather than Thailand. -
Report Thailand to Reclassify Cannabis as Controlled Substance
Spock replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
You misunderstood me. I too have to get repeat prescriptions, but the quantity prescribed lasts me 3 or 4 months. I wouldn't imagine you are getting prescriptions on a monthly basis? -
Report Thailand to Reclassify Cannabis as Controlled Substance
Spock replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
I get my medicinal weed in Australia through a pharmacy, but the scripts are for 5 or 6 lots of 10mg, with a 30 gm limit per month. I suspect the 30gm a month limit is what will apply in Thailand when weed goes medicinal. Forcing people to get a monthly prescription would be ridiculous as the condition for which it is being prescribed will not change month to month. -
Report Thailand to Reclassify Cannabis as Controlled Substance
Spock replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
They could at least get the time sequence right. 'From now on' should read 'November on' unless there is a period in between where they are going to practice enforcing the new regulations.