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4 hours ago, cncltd1973 said:

I've tried many strains of the top shelf stuff here, and they all gave me a headache. I suspect the local growers aren't paying attention to when to stop fertilizing or they aren't flushing the nutrients. it isn't as easy as nature to make great weed. my experience with thai workers is they feel they have succeeded when the work is good enough, without contemplating improvement for the future. that mindset works to stop competition instead of creating the best product

Headaches are a sign of PGRs... That stuff is not top shelf at all, it just kinda looks so, but it's shamelessly sold as such. It's mostly imported, not grown locally.

16 hours ago, SamuiGrower said:

As other posters have mentioned, the ‘medical loophole’ laws and imports to fill the nascent market still exist, have never been ended, and are widely exploited. Don’t know why you are soooo surprised! It’s the least of what’s concerning. But please, feel free to keep insisting it’s just not so. 

I've done a bit of homework and it looks like I'm standing corrected.

Thank you for the enlightenment, appreciated.

26 minutes ago, SamuiGrower said:

No, I can’t. Asking a business to copy their license and post it so you can see it? Slim to none. If you don’t believe there is a huge influx of USA/Canadian flower flooding the Thai market, don’t leave it to me to convince you, canvass the suppliers or better yet, enter the business. Clearly, ALL are welcome (by some) ????????????.

 

I am in the business. A commercial grow that sells cannabis and CBD (flower/extract) on a wholesale basis to dispensaries and wellness centers. They have shown us their import licenses and commercially imported flower and those are the prices that have established the AMR (average market rate) to which we compete against. Our company has a full time “admin”, well versed in licenses, permits and filling out countless forms. We are a straight up-and-down company that has  multiple licenses (a CBD export license is just one). A Ganja/Ganjo import license is just a matter of filing and paying.

 

As stated in previous posts, this business is a race to the bottom, complete with Darwinism - survival of the fittest. Prices will plummet, regulation will abound, and small players will evaporate. The weed business in Thailand is replete with the good, the bad and the really bad. It astounds me that it still operates on the least common denominator: “The Gram”. More weed spoils or its integrity diminished by oversupply than what is sold. Before anyone asks for proof of that, relax, it’s MY speculation from involvement in this business. I see a lot of “brown, everything looks a like, UV and humidity spoiled flower”. FYI for all you looking in from the outside - you can’t freeze it, refrigerate it, inert atmosphere package it and expect it to last until that last gram is sold, before it goes bad. Sad.

I'm fully aware of the imported weed, what I'm questioning is those "valid import licenses" you seem to be the only to have ever seen. The official stance of the Thai gvt. is that weed imports are illegal so you'd need better evidence than just words to claim the opposite. As another poster said above, seeds can be legally imported with a permit, buds can't.

16 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Hard to see how foreign grows paying staff $20/hour can compete with Thai grows paying staff 300bht/day.

Eventually, indeed, but for now big California growers benefit from scale economy, experience and better climate. Thai production is not stabilized yet, far from it, and farms are failing some harvests (which is expensive). Even for California experienced growers it takes several harvests to get the production right in any new operation, plus tropical climate creates some serious challenges many have yet to overcome.

1 hour ago, SamuiGrower said:

This is also NOT true. I have seen valid import licenses. Many. Yes, it is illegal export it out of the US and Canada. Trust me, that in and of itself will allow the US DEA to pressure And influence Thai legislation in the coming round of regulations, that you all know is coming.

Could you post a - names blurred - photo of any such valid import license?

45 minutes ago, rwill said:

It's just unfortunate they didn't catch her earlier.

 

The murder total could be even higher than this.

If there was indeed a case in 2015 already, the actual total might be staggering.

Nice change, all those non-violent fights and shootings were getting quite boring.

On 3/18/2023 at 12:00 PM, CG1 Blue said:

I tried that same climb 3 years ago (was 50 yrs old then). I gave up half way because it was too much and I actually thought it could kill me. I later regretted giving up - but reading this story I no longer regret that decision. 

 

I'm reasonably fit, but there's something about stairs that just saps everything out of me. I had a similar issue at the Great Wall, but managed to conquer that one. I don't think my ticker is designed to cope with steps. 

 

RIP sir - you lived life! 

 

Tiger Temple is all about pacing your effort, you have to take it slower than you feel like, in order to save your energy for the whole trip. People fail the climb because they go for it like they'd go on a couple stories' house stairs, but of course they run out of energy after a couple hundred steps. Then it does become difficult... Reasonable pace there is about 25 min for the climb which is just a bit slower than 1 step/second, so it's relatively easy to count. With the right pace you don't have to stop in the middle (because you don't run out of energy).