wealthychef

Here is a more informative article that supports what you are saying but gives more context and doesn't seem so biased to me. https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-marijuana-link. Their recommendations: It’s wise for teens to avoid marijuana or delay using it until they are adults. If you have schizophrenia, don’t use marijuana. If you have a family history of schizophrenia or other psychotic illness, avoid marijuana. If you are a caregiver for someone who has schizophrenia and uses marijuana, encourage them to quit.

the story itself mentions marijuana. Did you read it?

Fair point, you did say that and I agreed with your statement if you read my posts! ???? However, you were still wrong about the role of marijuana in violence for the reasons I stated. Basically, the only time marijuana seems to "make people violent" is when an underlying psychosis is triggered. This is not true for drugs like alcohol which can make people dangerous and violent completely out of the blue after just a few drinks. Marijuana is so much more mild that to even consider it here was ridiculous in my opinion.

I wonder what that number actually is. Intuitively, I'd suppose you to be correct; they seem like raves to me. These parties involve mostly young, healthy adults(-ish), but I do recall someone getting electrocuted at one of these things recently due to their use of some stupid bubble machine or what-not. I would bet some people probably overdose on alcohol and ecstasy as well. Maybe even a weed overdose or two.

Distinction without a difference: once the cortex develops, the concept of "cool" loses most of its attraction.

Without incident you say? Um... you can just casually google to find out you are wrong about this.

This kind of progressive policy I think is much more effective than jail or browbeating. Society turns far to fast to violence and oppression. Drug users know the dangers, they really do. They just are addicted and willing to take the risk. We can save lives by giving them safe options. But society prefers to punish them for their mistakes. An odd approach, given that you don't punish basketball players for missing baskets, you teach them how to aim better...

Now that you know the perp tested positive for yaba, don't you feel a bit silly blaming THC for this? You were wrong and I was right, haha! Neener neener. ???? Seriously, to your point, the studies do show that THC can trigger underlying psychosis as those articles do point out, but the number of people with underlying psychosis is small, and such psychoses can be also triggered by alcohol and yaba, so I still think this anti-marijuana hysteria is way overblown.

Yes but it is cool when you are a kid to ignore the risks. You just don't think they apply to you. Not sure what the answer is to this, but making drugs illegal or putting people in jail or giving out fines is probably not it. (not that you are suggesting such things)

on weed? This contradicts all my experience, and all the science I've seen on the topic. What is the source of your information about the connection between THC and violence? This is would be a good idea. Of course since you can just bribe the police in Thailand there is no point in passing such a limit. Right? ????

Absolutely true that we cannot definitively say without a report (which wouldn't be definitive either actually), but it strains credulity in my view to say it was weed that did this, based on what everyone should by now know are effects of smoking weed. Very rarely pot can cause psychosis, but if it does, it's unlikely to involve throwing refrigerators. These symptoms of being aggressive and uncooperative are *textbook* alcohol symptoms, so I'm going with the obvious theory based on my own experience. Is it really hard to imagine a guy getting drunk and chucking a mini-fridge from his balcony? Not for me. But it is for pot.

No, that's why I brought it up, because it fits the symptoms and you didn't mention it.

I have personally experienced this kind of effect from marijuana and it was not a rage or rampage, it was a terrifying collapse and fear. While we can see that this person was a user of pot, it seems more likely that alcohol would cause this to me, in my silly layman's opinion.

But it is common and normal for people to do that on alcohol, right? Interesting how that's not being implicated here. Maybe because it doesn't fit anyone's agenda? Not sure

These are not from smoking weed as being in a "frenzy" is definitely not an effect from pot. LOL this sounds a lot more like alcohol or methamphetamines or both.

Two questions come to mind here: first, are the deaths "covid caused" or "covid involved?" Second, how many deaths from the vaccine itself so far? ????

How about moving out of her village then for starters? I realize he might lose his possessions but is it worth it? I say yes

That's been my experience as well. My big complaint is about the bribery being essentially legal here. That's a systemic problem. I don't see how complaining about how Thais are idiots or always do this or that helps anyone at all, including the unfortunate guy who died here. But I understand the impulse! As I've stated elsewhere, there is nothing uniquely Thai about violence against prison inmates, possessing ignorant opinions, etc. People are like this everywhere. It takes effort to bring peace to the world...

only if the person doing the punching is poor and the person being punched is wealthy

This seems like sensible policy to me!

This is an indictment of both your imagination and the low quality of Thai people you apparently prefer to associate with. The Thais I know are all very respectful and not going to squirt someone that obviously doesn't want it. Maybe if you stretch your imagination to include Thais that don't fit your biases it will make your life better.

Actually, Western thinking is "let me come here and take advantage of low prices from the exploitative labor market, then turn around and complain that their society doesn't put more effort into fair social practices while insulting every native Thai along the way." Thai thinking is "let me get what I can from these invaders from the Empire, as long as they are raping my country."

I just asked for a link, no need to be rude.

Removing corruption from politics is an endless project and somehow nobody ever accomplishes it. This is another place where I have to remind folks that Thailand is not unique in its corruption. The problem is that the vast majority of those with the real power to correct it are neck-deep in it, in every country I know of at the moment.

Not a link