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Yes, I did use it every day for extended periods ranging from a few months to up to a year, and yes I did quit, several times. I think I do, as do the hundreds of acquaintances I mentioned. Again, your two statements were your opinion. Nothing more, nothing less. I get that you can't really defend your statements, or answer my questions, so you need to question me, another "tell".

IMO, Having sitting Senators presenting evidence to the EC is a disgraceful conflict of interest. And this could be fashioned as being illegal under a number of Thai laws (116 for example).

This is going to be a challenge for the authorities to deal with. Guaranteeing relatively safe, tested, approved consumables is but one challenge. Controlling sales, distribution and use is another. And one can see the wide appeal of vaping vs. classic cigarette use. Portability, ease-of-use, customization, flavors, acceptability. In Bangkok it seems like more than half the smokers huddled in an outdoor smoking area are vaping. And in/near night clubs and night entertainment areas (Thai), forget about it, ~ 50% have vape sticks. No easy solution here, including a full on ban.

This is a pretty silly and out of date article. Yes, the Prayut regime did try to undercut a future potentially larger MFP-sponsored bill, by liberalizing the brewing industry last November (2022). Regulations amended to pre-empt liquor liberalization bill The Prayut government on Tuesday moved to pre-empt the opposition’s bill to liberalize liquor production due for its second reading in the House of Representatives today by relaxing the ministerial regulations governing production of alcoholic drinks. The amendment is widely seen as an attempt by the government to derail the opposition Move Forward party’s so-called liquor liberalization bill which is due to be taken up for its second and third reading by the House today. “The bill is no longer necessary,” Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said yesterday when asked if the amendment of the regulations was designed to pre-empt the bill. https://www.thaipbsworld.com/regulations-amended-to-pre-empt-liquor-liberalization-bill/ This has resulted in a massive explosion of the already burgeoning craft beer market here. I'd say this has had a much larger impact than the similarly liberalized Cannabis flower markets. MoveForward MP Taopiphop Limkittrakorn has some craft beer establishments. https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/brewer-politician-taopiphop-to-reopen-his-bar-friday-in-bangkok-again/ In the distilled spirits space (rice or sugarcane), these have been legal since the early 2000's though an OTOP loophole, with production concentrated (but not limited to) Phrae and Chaiyaphum. Advertising and online sales was prohibited but that restriction seems to have been lifted. All that said, I would expect MFP/PTP to try to push through comprehensive legislation re: alcohol liberalization, not limited to production and distribution. They want to do away with the silly sales hour rules too.

The RTP should just publish a menu which describes the "offense" and the price for the bribe. Also include payment channel options, and name, bank and account numbers. And waive that facial recognition requirement so we can pay more than 50,000 at a pop. And/or implement a prepayment option which includes a sticker we can flash to get out of that day's potential arrest.

This seems like the best possible outcome/compromise of this overly "ginned up" controversy. So who will MFP put forward for Speaker, that veterinarian, Phaidpat, from Phitsanalouk? Any cat-herding experience. will be helpful. ???? So if Pita does not get enough votes for PM, PTP will put Srettha up? Will he get enough votes? Now the Senate is on the back foot. Do they block the Speaker vote? And kick-off a period of instability? I think they're now forced to approve a MFP speaker. Then somehow justify blocking Pita, but maybe accepting Srettha?

I last consumed cannabis ~ 3 weeks ago. I have plenty on hand, and often plan to (tonight for example), but I guess I'm not "addicted", yet? I have consumed cannabis responsibly since ~ 1969, although there were decades long periods when I did not, mostly because of employment, and periodic drug testing.

Cannabis is legal. Methamphetamine is illegal. So like Fridge Guy, it's best to claim you were just high from Cannabis.

It was publicized that The Royal Household made changes to the Constitution AFTER the referendum. But those had more to do with nuances required to accommodate the King's travel outside the Kingdom. https://www.reuters.com/article/cnews-us-thailand-king-constitution-idCAKBN14X0IF Regarding the 350/150 v. 400/100 I did see this...interesting timing January 29, 2023. Thailand’s amended law on constituency and party-list MPs promulgated The amended Election Act for constituency and party-list MPs came into force today (Sunday) following its publication in the Royal Gazette yesterday. Under the amended law, there will be 400 constituency and 100 party-list MPs, instead of 350 and 150 as previously stipulated. The population per constituency seat is determined by the total population of the country, according to the latest census, divided by 400. The number of constituency MPs for each province is based on the population of each province, divided by the number of people eligible for a constituency MP. https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailands-amended-law-on-constituency-and-party-list-mps-promulgated/ I think some of this stuff may be in ancillary documents, like the "Election Act"?

"Everyone"? "Most of the people"? These are your opinions, right? Or are these the result of your own personal experiences? Or are these the results of some poll you conducted? And they only apply to some subset of cannabis uses who "use it every day"? So for the millions of people who use cannabis responsibly, but not "every day", it is not addictive? To me, these two statements seem overly broad and exaggerated, and thus unbelievable and unconvincing. Exaggerating a statement is always a "tell", in that the person speaking knows they are prevaricating and think that exaggeration lends credibility. It doesn't. It's always a 'tell'. If you want cannabis to be addictive I think you can convince yourself of that opinion. Personally, being around cannabis users for 50-ish - in half the cases, lifelong friends - years I have never, ever noticed that cannabis use was addictive, either physically or psychologically. But I have no agenda trying to "convince" people to use or not use cannabis. Alcohol, nicotine, cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates on the other hand are addictive and have resulted in the loss of many friends, and massively and negatively impacted society. Still waiting to attend the funeral for someone who passed from a cannabis overdose.

Yes, the courts here sometimes listen to the drumbeats. Same-same the 8-7 vote in 2001 clearing Thaksin.

Well at least one new permanent holiday was added in May 2019 and announced by an advisor, Nattaporn Jatusripital, the Prime Minister. But that was a special circumstance. That holiday was celebrated earlier this month.

Freely available is a result of translation, "free" in the sense that it is free from previous legal restrictions, and it means fully legal for recreational/personal use. Cannabis Flower that is. But, yes you may see a sign in the dispensary that says "Free Weed Tomorrow".

Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh on line 2 for you. But yeah, I agree with your premise. Thailand and the U.S.A. have a pretty lengthy diplomatic history dating to what, early 1800's. And it's been mostly beneficial to both countries, with a few speed bumps.

Some people are simps for a dictator.

MFP will NEVER, EVER be in power, securely or otherwise. They have 151 seats from 750. In 2001 PTP had 248 from 500.

Yes, I saw this article when it first popped, back in May in the post-orgasmic period after the surprising election results. https://www.nationthailand.com/thailand/politics/40027743 https://aseannow.com/topic/1295213-move-forward-party-to-submit-45-bills-for-amendments-and-new-laws/ It struck me as a "plan", or a "platform", or a "wish-list". Pretty much what MFP ran on. So forty-five proposed bills was not too fast, or too much too soon, but discussing National Day was a bridge too far?

Nothing I say will sway you from your belief that nefarious parties are spending extra time and money concocting enhanced cannabis in order to "hook" unsuspecting buyers. It's beyond idiotic if only because it makes no business sense whatsoever. I don't know your B n law or your friends, but it sounds like they never got doctored weed either. And to somehow think doctored cannabis is being peddled in rural Thailand is even more silly. I think it's best you just continue to believe this conspiracy. It definitely makes you look "in the know".

Hearing him in own voice is much more compelling than reading a transcript. You can be sure the government will want to play the audio recording during a trial, assuming it is admitted as evidence. And all the people present, save trump, have been deposed. Of course we heard his own voice on the Access Hollywood tape and that didn't really seem to swing things much. Today's "bravado" is yesterday's "locker-room talk".

We pay them, and they're grifters. They know what generates clicks and cannabis articles, for some reason, generate clicks. I think because the issue is somewhat divisive, and can be made to seem scary, and that alone gins up a lot of eyeballs.

Don't be worried, that's an urban myth. Assuming these two people (14 YO, 36 YO) actually smoked cannabis it was not treated with anything. It was just ditch weed.

But this is just one idea, that Rangsiman (admittedly a definite thorn in the side of the dinosaurs) is proposing. It is not a promise. Just an idea being put forth for discussion. If the immediate knee-jerk reaction is to stop talking about it you know you've hit a nerve. I get the whole go slowly, so slowly that you lull opponents into going along with you, but does that really work? I mean other than when cooking frogs or lobsters?

Yeah, I think maybe I was misunderstood when I said I could 'murder' that cheeseburger.

Now he says he was holding "building plans", and exhibiting "bravado". Huh? Former President Donald Trump is now claiming that his boasts about holding highly classified national defense information while talking to patrons at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey were just "bravado" — and all he really had in his hand were "building plans," according to Semafor. "'I would say it was bravado, if you want to know the truth, it was bravado,' Trump said in an interview aboard his plane with Semafor and ABC News. 'I was talking and just holding up papers and talking about them, but I had no documents. I didn’t have any documents,'" reported Shelby Talcott. https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-building-plans/

I think there are 19 ministries so three are still available?