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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?

Heart. Love.

The "American Interference" disinformation campaign is being propagated by the usual suspects, and is compounded by the fact that Pita, in addition to being young, vibrant, progressive, smart, hopeful, confident and anti-establishment, took advanced degrees at KSG/Harvard and Sloan/MIT. Hence he gets tarred with being a lackey of the Americans. Sore losers gonna whine, and try to undermine the new government any way they can. That's what this is about.

In that BP graphic where is the Ministry of Public Health?

Can you share some examples of this? And the success of slow-moving reforms? And how are these applicable to Thailand? Maybe Thais feel like there haven't been any real reforms for ages, if anything maybe things have moved backwards since 1997 or 2006. And they're anxious for more, bigger faster reforms? The groundswell for reforms of the Institution is shocking to me, I can't imagine how shocking they must be to traditionalists and ultra-nationalists. IMO, talking about, and entertaining the IDEA of reforms is perfectly acceptable and should be encouraged. And not discouraged as property developer Sreetha is offering as his "advice". If you aren't free to talk about something then are you really free?

I was waiting for the part where Mom wouldn't give junior money for him to buy cannabis for his dogs.

"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." I'm hoping the next government replaces the 1932 Plaque which mysteriously walked away after all of the surveillance cameras stopped working. Most physical vestiges of 1932 have been disappeared, systematically, on purpose. Having a National Day is a good idea. Keeping December 5 as a holiday in remembrance of Rama 9 is also a good idea. But call it that, and not "National Day".

Wow. Very few 11x cases result in an acquittal. Seems like the RTP should be reprimanded, both for bringing questionable and partisan charges, and not properly managing a Royal Procession.