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I am 70 and know nobody who used weed as a gateway to harder drugs. Weed users tend to be quite content with the buzz they get from the dope.

The Chinese in Singapore used the same expression when I lived there as a child from 1960-63..

If it takes that long to shut the weed down, yes I will have enough time for another trip. I got my Thai mate to buy some ahead of my last visit and could do the same again.

I came to Thailand last year for 2 months purely on the back of recreational legalisation. I won't be coming back. Cambodia may not have legal weed but it's easily obtainable and safe to use it.

Are you saying that periodontists in Hua Hin or Bangkok or both are all booked out months ahead?

Might be more accurate to say that zoos in certain countries, like China, are horrid places because the visitors don't genuinely respect the animals or the zoo authorities underfeed the animals and keep them in inappropriate enclosures.

No wonder the rich continually get away with murder or something approximating it when Thais continually accept an apology for outrageous behaviour, particularly from a teacher, and do not insist on following through with a complaint until authorities take action. Weak effort from the grandfather.

But you are not going to get the same effect using more of an inferior product (e.g. leaf) as opposed to using premium product. And edibles are as efficient as smoking or vaping in terms of quantity used. Plus for me taste is important too, whether vaping or eating.

Got to disagree. Good quality heads makes good quality edibles in my experience.

That's what I am - 70. I am aware of one relatively cheap insurance in Thailand that requires a 100000 baht excess for over 70's. Doesn't seem that others exist for 70 year olds taking out an in country insurance for the first time to live in Thailand.

On minimum wage of 353 baht a day, at the bottom of the barrel of occupations, and in a job where he would be dealing with taxi drivers all day, I cannot see why an uneducated kid in a menial job would be remotely interested in interfering in a dispute of this nature.

Don't think I have ever felt colder than in the morning on the Chiang Mai train, and was glad to discover that the dining car was not air-conditioned and the windows could be opened to survey the view.

Thai people should.

It was on the news in Australia last night that over 40% of travellers are now forgoing travel insurance due to the cost. I was amazed at how much more expensive it is now when I went to Thailand in June, where the minimum comprehensive policy for a month was about $A350 while I paid $450 for one which covered me for motorbike riding and covid, both ill ness and out of pocket costs. That's a lot of money on top of airfares. It's understandable why people task the risk. It's also understandable why they shouldn't.

If you have made any posts today in this thread, I can't find them.

Yep the Red Bull guy is 20 times more important than this aging German. What a blight on Thai justice that it will send its top cop to Germany over a hairline infraction but let a cop killer wander the world till the statute of limitations allows him to return. It's a sham and an absolute disgrace.

Please explain. You are obviously privy to inside information.

I doubt he would cop much of a sentence even in Germany unless the judicial system went out of its way to appear to be doing its darndest to support Big Joke's visit.

A few months and she can legally be working in the bars. It's not the same as foreigners trolling for pre and early teens amongst the street kids etc. The bar owner is the major person who should be prosecuted here, then the client, but either way my main point was that this does not warrant a special trip to Germany from Big Joke unless he truly wants to appear a big joke. Save the visits for truly under age cases. There are degrees of offending against minors, and this is at the very softest end of the scale.

This is not a child. Not one requiring the chief of police to jump on a plane and go overseas. Totally over the top. About what you'd expect from Thailand.

This hardly requires Big Joke personally going to Germany. Save the big guns for real abuse of minors, not this middle of the road stuff. This is just Thailand pretending to flex its muscles and get tough over things that don't really matter much.

I got covid 3 weeks after my 5th vaccine shot, and it was horrible. Am not bothering with any more shots given the lack of protection from the injections.

Who cares? Less Chinese tourism ensures the utilitarian principle of greatest good for the greatest number is upheld.

That's a lot for a hernia operation that can probably be done without you having to even stay overnight.

Reasonable. I paid $450 in Cambodia for a femoral hernia operation. All done without an overnight stay.