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It is not, here in Thailand currently. No clue why this remains misunderstood. I mean this topic you're commenting on is about "walking back recreational use of cannabis".

Bathrooms, sports and children. Yeah, I don't get the predilection you lot have with bathrooms. I mean you live here right. Many transgender people using bathrooms of their preferred sex. Everyone seems fine. Society has not collapsed. If not, we can build special bathrooms. I mean we did it when we had separate bathrooms for Black citizens. We built handicapped bathrooms, which are primarily for all sexes. Bathroom technology is just not all that challenging. Women's sports? Is that really a big issue? Most sports governing bodies seem capable of coping with this insignificant challenge. I'm old enough to remember Dr. Renee Richards, the world didn't end then. Children? Parents, and doctors can care for the children. Local school boards can deal with the education curriculum. Folks like you can stay away from our children.

They've had eight months, and they've got bupkis. What a bunch of idiots.

Chuwit's claims early August. Many stories, a few threads here too. https://mgronline.com/onlinesection/detail/9660000069904 https://thailand.postsen.com/news/167771/Chuwit-exposes-Srettha-Thavisin-tax-evader-causing-hundreds-of-millions-of-damage-to-the-state.html

Well that impeachment inquiry hearing didn't go so well. https://www.c-span.org/video/?530616-1/hearing-biden-impeachment-inquiry Some/any evidence might have helped? Oh well, maybe get back to investigating Hillary Clinton?

Didn't they (republicans/conservatives) say this about Homosexuality? Like since forever. Might as well say that being different is a "mental health disorder". No clue why people can't just allow others to be happy, and love who they want to love.

By Big Joke. He has admitted paying journalists for coverage. https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/general/40031410

Staged. Car empty, shots fired low.

2019 redux. https://aseannow.com/topic/1094323-a-mysterious-fall-from-grace-the-rise-and-fall-of-big-joke-surachate-hakparn/ Back then I think he made visits to temples in India, maybe a vacation in the U.S.? Back to the Lazarus Pit. I predict he will make a comeback.

Pfft. These are just made up by individual shops, or the retail conglomerates (OG Canna Company/Panthera Group). These are not official. Wonderland (Suk Soi 5) has a "medical pop-up", staffed by a white-coat, I noticed Irritable Bowel Syndrome was a listed ailment. Currently Cannabis treatment is only approved for a few diagnoses. You must visit a government hospital, with a DTAM clinic for treatment. Three groups of medical conditions are included in the list of indications for medical cannabis treatment by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), namely (A) conditions with strong evidence of benefits from medical cannabis, i.e., chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, intractable epilepsy, spasticity in patients with multiple sclerosis and neuropathic pain, (B) conditions with some evidence of benefits, i.e., patients in palliative care, patients with end-stage cancer, Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, generalized anxiety disorder and other demyelinating diseases, and (C) conditions which may be benefited from treatment with cannabis should there be more evidence in the future, e.g., cancers of some organs. Additionally, 16 regimens of the Thai traditional medicine were approved (Ministry of Public Health, 2020). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8759353/#:~:text=Three groups of medical conditions,intractable epilepsy%2C spasticity in patients Obviously cannabis flower cannot be smoked by most of these patients, Pediatric Epilepsy for example. For medical cannabis to work, and not just be a minor hurdle for recreational use, Doctors will have to be trained, pharmacists will have to be trained, cannabis will have to be produced with exacting standards, tested, approved. A few specific growers will have to be approved. There must be seed to sale tracking. Look, if the end result is a faux medical cannabis program, like we went through in the U.S., then fine. Maybe that will satisfy the critics by providing more controls. 95% of that will end up as recreational use anyway. Now it's time to put a stop to recreational tobacco use, and recreational alcohol use.

Well he could have donated the 30 million baht, he blew on airfare to take his wife and daughter to NYC for eight days, to charity. (BTW he forced a THAI Airways A350-900, and all of the crew, to go out of service for those ~ 9 days, where for most of the time it was ferried to/from IAD where it was parked, probably costing a further significant expense.) Accept the salary, then feel free to make charitable donations, maybe one each month. Publicize those donations so as to draw attention to them which might encourage additional donations from the public. Visit each charity, assist in what they do for half a day. Meet the people. But no, he's a patrician elite.

The New Appointment system seems to be experiencing issues as well. But the 90-Day Report Appointment portion is working today. https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/onlineservice-and-publicguide/ I haven't seen a report of a successful online 90-day report at CW in a few weeks. Mine went to 15 days, I then applied in person (after my ext stay/ret renewal).

I've never liked this idea. It's all for show. Take the salary. Make separate donations.

A prescription for what, exactly? We're talking about Cannabis Flower with more than 0.2 % THC. That is unlikely to become legal (again, assuming it is re-criminalized) for medical purposes. Yes, I know many are hoping the medical market launches in the same form as in in the U.S., but that won't happen here. Yes, I'll stipulate that the extracts (oils) with less than 0.2 % THC (mostly CBD) is uncontrolled, and available everywhere. Currently the only legal medical solutions come from DTAM. And there are very few diagnoses which call for Cannabis as an approved treatment (Cancer, palliative/end of life, epileptic seizures). Handing out medical cards, and prescriptions for THC Flower is just not going to happen. It'll be "out of control", again. And no Doctor here is going to prescribe a controlled substance that needs to be smoked. Caveat: I was wrong about the June 9, 2022 decriminalization, so I may well be wrong again. And yes, the larger shops are setting up small co-located medical offices, with a wide list of ailments listed, in hopes that the medical market is eventually allowed.

Just got around to registering on this new site, which was pretty easy. Just not sure if I need to file a new TM.30, or if my current one will remain valid? There is a good User's Guide section with helpful guides and videos. https://tm30.immigration.go.th/TM30/Foreigner/TM30EN/Home.html https://tm30.immigration.go.th/TM30/Foreigner/TM30EN/VDOGuide.html

It is probably a good thing that the Police do not have to enforce recreational use, for now anyway, so they can concentrate on bigger problems... Police apprehended four suspects, aged 38 to 39, after discovering 15 million methamphetamine tablets, 443 sticks of heroin, 420 kilogrammes of crystal meth, and numerous Happy Water and Five Five drugs worth more than 300 million baht in a townhouse in Soi Lamphaya-Bosco 2, Prong Maduea Subdistrict, Nakhon Pathom Province. https://thethaiger.com/news/national/thai-police-dismantle-major-drug-syndicate-seizing-narcotics-worth-300-million-baht 420 Kilograms of Crystal Meth. WOW!

I wonder how high up the corruption goes within the Thai banking establishments?

Sounds like Chuwit knows plenty about Big Jokes "endeavors", and is implying that perhaps he is not suited for the top job? Hardly some premonition about a conspiracy to keep Joke from getting the top job.

So far his defense has consisted of: he's too rich to take bribes he doesn't need his paltry salary If he did take bribes he'd take more than 3.6 million baht "they" are out to get me he uses money from his wife to pay for police operations threatening lawsuits "I paid those reporters because I felt sorry for them." IMO, he would be better off addressing the issues, maybe with a few of his beloved vinyl displays. He got into trouble in 2019, and somehow got away with it. And he has advanced in rank far ahead ( 3+ years) of his classmates, allegedly as a result of Elephant Tickets. No clue why so many foreigners are fan bois of what they claim is the only honest cop in Thailand?

"Bold move." This man is a genius, and a real anti-corruption hero. /cough He did facilitate the red bull heir's escape from Justice, so he knows a thing or two about corruption.

All hat, no cattle, but with a healthy dollop of buffalo. But he blew 30 million baht on airfare, and his wife/daughter got to see the Big Apple. All to give a three-minute speech on the "Sufficiency Economy". He's useless.

But, but the remaining five police would be overwhelmed.

Seems the selection of a new national police chief was also a mess today. After naming a Caretaker National Police Chief, Pol Gen Roy Ingkhapairoj, they then voted in Deputy Police Chief Pol Gen Torsak Sukvimol.

He also said that the money transferred from a suspect, Minnie, to his close aide, Pol Col Pakpoom Pisamai, which led to a financial investigation and eventually the raid on his residences, was only 3 million baht. He argued that if Pakpoom were actually accepting bribes from an illegal gambling ring, it would have been a much larger sum. https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1706870000945119682 A Minnie-Bribe?

"A mess"? On it's best day the RTP aspires to be a Mess. It is a corrupt cesspit.