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6 minutes ago, stoner said:

do you light the tail too ? 

Only if you need the afterburner

16 hours ago, roietfortress said:

i think there's many levels of narcotic. aspirin is a narcotic in Thailand. they just want to regulate/control the weed. they will never schedule 5 it again. impossible. i think the free for all will end by the end of the year. i said that last year tho lol

 

as far as using those grower lists, over a million people registered. do you think any govt official in Thailand wants to knock on a million doors for something they don't even care about? the police are busy fighting meth.

 

i think everybody agrees there needs to be some regulation and control. i doubt they'll allow recreation, so make sure you are friends with a doctor. my glaucomas are killing me ????

 

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I think it may take 2 years until any change will take place. The opposition is large on both sides.

21 hours ago, MarcelV said:

Phrae, Phayao, Bueng Kan, Nakhon Phanom, Chanthaburi, Samut Songkhram, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Ranong, Phatthalung, Narathiwat, Betong, to name a few all over the country.

Lampang with its ponies and teak wood houses

6 hours ago, Andycoops said:

In my experience mental health in Thailand is virtually unheard of.

All you get us a brief consultation and a bucket of pills to take.

There are no therapy sessions to attend and it's left to the family to try and help as best they can.

 

At least this is my experience here in Isaan with a close family member.

It's not that its unheard, its in my opinion more or less a mass processing. There are maybe 20 to 50 patients assigned to one doctor (mostly young) who has a time window of maybe 15 minutes for the "counseling" hence no talk therapy either. Totally agree more or less you just get pills and the rest is left to the family without having the knowledge and capacity. This is indeed a huge lack in Thailand and patients / families could be helped much better if more time and counseling could be given.

15 minutes ago, sotonfarang said:

Where is that please?

It's in BKK across the river (Thonburi area?) but I just read you are in Pattaya. However my wife was under treatment there for schizophrenia and as a Thai she preferred it over the private hospitals such as Bangkok Hospital. Can find on google maps

Bangkok Hospital but expensive.  Thai mental hospital no 1 in my opinion is the Somdet Chao Phraya Hospital

On 5/1/2023 at 5:32 AM, rwill said:

Humans have this resistence to change thing.

We call it heritage

12 hours ago, stoner said:

ill throw in some free edibles. they are among the best around. 

 

in fact anyone who thinks they are champ with edibles....pm me.

 

free cookie to anyone who thinks they tough enough. 

 

I'm tough enough!

7 hours ago, 2baht said:

What was the subject again??? What were we talking about???

I had to scroll up again too, seems complicated....

This article sums up about everything what's wrong with Thai society - except the legalization of cannabis. 

A Thai once told me a joke: "How to split an Atom? Just hand it carefully to a Thai and ask him not to break it."

14 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

This seems to be a noise pollution country.  The cars and motorcycles are out of control.  The worst is any kind of music or verbal advertising on speakers cannot stand how the volume is always turned up.  For what?

Asians are noise addicted

13 minutes ago, mick220675 said:

You are a good person for caring so much. 

 

I don't know where your ex wife lives. We are in South buriram our nearest specialist mental health ward is korat. They can help with assessment and prescribing drugs.

 

Two people in our village have been sent to korat, one thai and one german. The German man stayed two weeks and then came back to the village. He had a prescription he could pick up from our local hospital. He lived ok until he went to pattaya for a holiday died in the police cells after not taking his medication and drinking heavily. 

 

The Thai man was brought back to the village and after repeatedly attacking people the police insisted he was put on a chain in his garden. The poor man lived for years like it.

Thank you! Really sad what happened to these 2 persons. We were living 15Y in Bangkok and she now lives with the family up in Lampang. Luckily they have a mental illness hospital there where she can be taken care if the psychosis is too strong (not eating and sleeping for several days etc), not as good as the BKK facilities though. She never drunk alcohol or took drugs but happened that she forgot medications if a new wave of psychosis approached. This has now improved as her family member observe very carefully that she don't misses the meds.

1 hour ago, jumbo said:

The Mental Health Department (MHD) is the national mental health authority. There are 122 outpatient facilities in the country, located in mental hospitals and in general hospitals. Eleven percent of these facilities are for children and adolescents only. There are no day treatment facilities in Thailand. The only residential facilities are for people with mental retardation and substance abuse. There are 25 community-based psychiatric units with 0.4 beds per 100,000 population and 17 mental hospitals with 13.8 beds per 100,000 population. The rate of users in community based inpatient units is 173 per 100,000 population and in mental hospitals is 158 per 100,000 population. The majority of patients admitted to mental hospitals have a diagnosis of schizophrenia. All forensic beds are located in one mental hospital for security reasons. It was estimated that most admissions to mental hospitals and inpatient units are involuntary.

 

https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/mental-health/who-aims-country-reports/thailand_who_aims_report.pdf?sfvrsn=853b6294_3&download=true#:~:text=In Thailand there are 122,and 17 in mental hospitals.

Thailand really has a huge shortcoming here. With the right care and assistance, the suffering could be mitigated for so many people

4 hours ago, BananaStrong said:

You are a good man.  I wish you both the best

Many thanks, appreciate your words! Mental illness is worse than most other illnesses IMO and it's painful to see how the beautiful mind of a person you love deteriorates.

13 hours ago, Sheryl said:

AFAIK there is no government assistance avsilable for this. 

Thanks. That's what I thought, the family seems the only welfare system here for such cases.

My ex Thai wife developed schizophrenia after we were together for about 5 years and we stayed together respectively I took care of her for another 10 years. However the phases of psychosis were getting longer / happened more often to a point I was unable to take care of my professional life. We all agreed the best is she stays with her family so that there is always someone around. 

I still assist financially and try to make a business for her so that she can take care of herself. However this is so difficult as now she feels mentally sick almost every day. I can't support her all my life long and wonder if there is any institution / government help she could apply. As a fact she really wants work but can't due to her illness. I doubt there is, but would like to reach out and see if anyone knows more about this or where can apply for financial welfare.

21 hours ago, Michaelaway said:

What? No rolled towel under the door?

Open the fan will cause negative air pressure, so it should be fine without it...

20 hours ago, taninthai said:

Was looking at that ice-o-later never heard or seen it before what you supposed to do with that?

Its actually the name of the extraction machine (also called Pollinator): https://pollinator.nl/

So I guess he has such a machine, same principal as bubble hash bags but more efficient. Back home a friend had one and achieved great results when putting to whole machine in a freezer over night.

You could smoke it like this but I suggest to press it into hash. I agree with Stoner that the color is strange though

On 2/2/2023 at 11:21 AM, stoner said:

the picture tells me most of the story. let me know though.

thanks

Only tried the Marroco so far. I thought marrocon is always light green in color. Anyway, it burns well and is smooth when smoking. It hits immediately with a nice long relaxing flash. It doesn't contain organic matter, taste could be stronger and I think it could be better pressed. Overall can compete with what we get in Europe. The Ice-O-Later comes as washed out, I don't mind pressing it by myself. The free