.png.3b3332cc2256ad0edbc2fe9404feeef0.png)
Spock
-
Posts
1,044 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Downloads
Posts posted by Spock
-
-
13 hours ago, Merrill said:
The rest of the plant has many uses
It might have many uses, but one of them is not getting you stoned. You ever hear of anyone using seed, stems and roots to get high?
-
40 minutes ago, BritManToo said:
Well at least they will no longer be able to test for cannabis, as the test won't tell the difference between consumption of leaves and consumption of buds.
So unless you actually get caught holding buds, no problems.
Yes it would. Only the buds have THC which is what is tested for. The rest of the plant is utterly useless even for medical purposes. Medical marijuana in Australia is largely about bud and potent ones too. No one is going to buy any medical product that is devoid of THC. No one in the business or who uses would have been relieved by this decision as claimed in the poorly conceived article. It 's a disaster for all concerned. I coming in July for a month and this will no doubt be my last opportunity to buy buds. Pretty sure this will be my last visit as the illegal stuff is much easier to get hold of in neighbouring countries.
-
2
-
1
-
-
1 hour ago, connda said:
Me too - I hope tobacco and then alcohol get the axe as well, in that order.
What a fun person you would be! Obviously not a veteran of the early days of travelling Thailand.
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
-
4 hours ago, steve187 said:
what normal tourist/expat is out in a well known nightspot area at 4.40am
What has that got to do with being stabbed by five men? Surely the tourist is entitled to be wherever he likes whenever he likes on vacation. I can think of plenty of reasons why a foreigner might do an all nighter. Get sick of reading comments suggesting the English guy is at fault.
-
1
-
1
-
-
3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:
Given they are not receiving a pension, and sun drenched villas are not cheap, one wonders how they are financing their "new life". One hope that he has a work permit for whatever it is.
PS, have they taken the cost of health care insurance into consideration? No NHS in LOS.
She is probably an influencer or some such nonsense. Or at least some job that can be done from afar.
-
1
-
-
- Popular Post
24 minutes ago, Aussie999 said:Wow, the very first comment, and you blame the victim... wow... jai dam
Exactly my thoughts and most of the posts have avoided any blame of Thais. When I lived there 6 months in 1996, the Thai workers in the bars loved the opportunity to crack a bottle over the head of some foreigner playing up. Seems like in this instance its a gang setting on one person, so you'd think posters would be a bit more circumspect than simply blaming the Brit. It's not really a nice area of Thailand. Tourists do stuff that gets them hated and eyes light up when a chance for revenge is presented.
-
2
-
2
-
1
-
2
-
10
-
What a weird offence - 'committing theft at night'! Why differentiate the time of day? Theft is theft.
-
1
-
-
- Popular Post
On 4/1/2024 at 12:02 PM, 1sickpuppy said:still not great for lungs though
I have to disagree. I was a cigarette/joint smoker and gave up smoking cigarettes 10 years ago and have vaped weed ever since. I have no problem with my lungs which feel perfectly healthy unlike when I was a smoker. I don't believe weed vaping is harmful to the lungs. It's not like tobacco vaping where people are consuming nicotine and harmful chemicals.
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
- Popular Post
2 hours ago, rattlesnake said:
One reason is that even a small amount of cannabis can impair you and cause problems. To a lot of people, taking just one drag on a spliff is enough to alter perception and make it dangerous to drive a vehicle, for instance. Eating the stuff, such as in a cake (which lots of non-smoking Thais were doing) highly indreases the psychotropic effect. And it will of course aggravate any symptoms of psychiatric ailments (of which there are lots these days).
This was overall a bad idea and it is good that they are reversing it.You are just another person who all too obviously knows nothing from experience or in theory that adds anything to the discussion.
-
1
-
2
-
- Popular Post
2 hours ago, sabai-dee-man said:I have three friends who regularly smoked weed from their mid teens. One kicked the habit in his late 30s, early 40s, and is fine, the second progressed to hard drugs, and thankfully managed to get clean about 8 years ago... but his brain is frazzled. He was my best friend at school, but we lost touch when I went to work and he went to college, and got in with the wrong crowd. Drugs totally f****d his life up. The third guy, here in Thailand, now in his late 20s, had a good job and had bought a nice house... lost the will, lost his job, and lost his house! Now lives with his mother in Issan, and no longer even chats with anyone. He's just stoned all the time.
I'll pass, thank you. Doesn't appear to be as "harmless" as people claim.
I'm 71 and used it everyday since I was about 20 without any health problems. Same applies to my friends.
-
1
-
1
-
2
-
- Popular Post
3 hours ago, proton said:Three old friends who kept it up daily all their adult life's are long dead, all with brain hemorrhages.
What a fool you are making of yourself! I'm 71 and been around weed all my life and one side effect I have never ever seen or heard of is brain haemorrhaging, particularly people dying from it.
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
2
-
- Popular Post
4 hours ago, smedly said:so does this make it right to legalize?, as I have said many times - there is already a problem with alcohol on Thailands roads, we don't need another one.
and I have seen the long term effects on mental heath from prolific use and it is disturbing.
I really don't object to sensible occasional use or medical use but what is going on now with full commercial access is the wrong direction, sorry
PS - plus I hate the smell - it stinks
You must have only recently discovered SEA and the pleasures it offers. You obviously weren't a regular in the 60s and 70s. You've seen the effects have you in your very limited experience of the drug?
-
1
-
2
-
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
1 hour ago, AustinRacing said:It was intended for medical use? It was Anutin excuse to create a business opportunity. It’s backfiring for good reason. Close all shops. Only allow pharmacies to sell with doctor’s script. This is how medical products are sold.
Easy to see you only caught up with Thailand once it became a destination for the straight and boring folk.
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
3 hours ago, gargamon said:
I don't have a problem with that. Working without an appropriate visa. Lock them up.
I bet you didn't get to Thailand till at least the late 90s when the country started to believe it needed to become squeaky clean for the sake of its citizens and visitors.
-
4 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:
All that outrage because a little girl could not hold it until the next public toilet ...
What damage was done ? Is Thailand's reputation now tarnished ?
Public outcry ? Ridiculous .
Buddha himself would have been more tolerant , I'm sure ...
There's grass and a hedge behind. More appropriate spots to pee seem to be in abundance.
-
1
-
-
12 hours ago, Martin71 said:
Witness said Chinese..
They look Chinese to me and stands to reason they would be. The girl might not be at fault but the parents certainly are.
-
1
-
2
-
-
5 hours ago, Cabradelmar said:
Too bad, but inevitable. At least until the next government says different. Luckily, everyone in issan grows their own 😜 weed will never be in short supply in THA. The upside is maybe a few less knucklehead tourist (and those will no self control) will decide to come here for the ganja experience.
You obviously were not among the original tourists to come here from the 60's on because Thailand offered something a bit more risque and wild west like than boring old western countries. Console yourself with the fact that you are not alone. There are many super straight westerners who seem to have discovered Thailand once it became even more conservative in its thinking than the western countries supplying the tourists. I seriously do not understand the attraction of Thailand over the home countries of these people. Fortunately I will again be able to spend a slab of time in Thailand before Thaksin and his reactionary comrades turn the place into a boring yawn-fest again.
-
2
-
-
7 hours ago, Pouatchee said:
yet he outmaneuvered move forward. a dangerous man he is -- dont sell him short, yet.
He is dangerous and I would never sell him short - doesn't mean that he isn't a turd of a person and politician.
-
2
-
-
29 minutes ago, Excogitator said:
One less oxygen-thief on the run.
May he experience in prison what his victims had to endure..
I suspect he will handle himself pretty well inside. Looks a solid unit.
-
1
-
-
3 hours ago, Ulyssesamui said:
Throw the book at this drug dealer. A years in The Monkey House will teach him a lesson. He and his ilk are not wanted here.
Really? You ever had ecstasy or cocaine? More desirable than heroin or ice. Both drugs would certainly make a full moon party a lot more enjoyable. I am sure that the many foreigners who have bought from him are sorry that he has been caught.
-
1
-
-
4 hours ago, freeworld said:
One has to sympathise with these people, they get pressured into taking drugs, take them for whatever reason and get hooked and then cant stop. The British govt should be doing more to help them.
The British government needs to know about them first. Perhaps you could help with a list of names.
-
1
-
-
On 4/7/2024 at 2:07 AM, MangoKorat said:
You sound like an old school user. What you need to understand is that kids these days are not happy unless they are totally off their heads. You want them driving on the same roads as you and your family?
But in any case, do you really believe that someone who's not too far gone has the same reaction speed as a sober driver? If you do, you should probably check out the evidence on that - because they are way slower. Having a smoke? Leave the car at home.
I actually agree that those drinking or using drugs should not be driving, so we have no argument there. I am not so sure that removing the weed or alcohol from the equation in order to solve it is the answer. Better policing and testing (drug as well as alcohol tests) and real penalties puts the onus on the driver to look after their own best interests and stay of the road.
-
1
-
1
-
-
21 hours ago, Sigmund said:
These issues involving foreigners are increacing ever since cannabis became legal. Not to mention the other harsher drugs available in the black market!! (no puns). Allowing the free sale of cannabis has attracted all the junkies from the west to Thailand.
The guy doesn't look like a weed user to me. Your claim is nonsense anyway and totally devoid of any evidence.
-
1
-
-
- Popular Post
On 4/3/2024 at 7:25 AM, MangoKorat said:Well, firstly I think you mean 'experience' - were you smoking when you wrote that? Secondly you are so, so wrong. I broadly support people being allowed to use cannabis but not if they are driving.
Its precisely because I have considerable experience of weed that I know that I, and everyone else I know are in no way fit to drive when they have consumed enough. You seem to forget that a lot of people get so $hitfaced that they can't even walk let alone drive. Been there myself and no way would I get behind the wheel of a car.
People may think they are OK to drive when they've had a smoke - most drinkers think the same.
I don't know where you're coming from here but if you are saying that its fine to drive after using cannabis, that it just a ridiculous way of thinking.
I am saying that cannabis alone does not make driving a difficult task except for the true newbies to the drug. Drivers who do face difficulties tend to drive cautiously and slow, unlike those affected by alcohol who are careless and irresponsible. The danger probably occurs where the two are combined. But I don't believe negotiating a curve successfully would be a particular problem for a user.
-
1
-
2
Cannabis crackdown: Only marijuana buds return to the blacklist
in Thailand News
Posted
The plants will be treated like flowers were in the Adams Family home, with the buds cut off and thrown away and the stalks retained for God knows what purpose. Stalks, seeds, leaves and oils with no THC are not going to support a medical marijuana market.