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I think the thing is it will happen but it's what happens after it happens. I think they'll have trouble quashing all the results where reformist candidates win as this will be wide spread across provinces.

I expect so but I doubt they'll be called MFP and I doubt Pita will be the leader after the Junta's legal arm the Constitutional Court hands down their verdict.

By far and a far superior quality.

Farangs smoking dope in Thailand would be the minority. TIT. Lot's of Thais smoke dope.

True but more expensive and not as good. Compressed rubbish from Lao and Myanmar.

Some health officials and some of the public. This is what they base it on? No independent studies need then. Based on what? Well the drug lords and corrupt officials will be happy as the money from dope smuggled into Thailand will start filling their pockets again. This is 100% Thaksin. Ridiculous.

Recreational use should be legal and regulations should be put in place. This is the logical and economically beneficial way to go and before anyone says TIT, yes, I am well aware of this fact.

That's correct. And the Senate election selection was NOT democratic. What's your point? I'm saying that in a democracy the people vote for the candidates whoever they may be and anyone can run for office. When did I say Thailand is a democracy. I'm saying just the opposite so no reason to SHOUT NOT AT ME.

Ridiculous comment. Politics doesn't work that way. All heath ministers need to be doctors then? Defence ministers should be military? Everybody should have the right to run for the Senate. It's up to the electorate if they get voted in or not. This is democracy.

Yep. The whole drug debate seems to be between the informed, the conservative religious side and the ill-informed. Also there is the darker side of this. Keep drugs illegal and some people maintain their power and influence and income stream be it huge amounts at the top to a bit of cash in the pocket at the the bottom. Being this is a forum you'll always have the informed and the sheeple. People who believe what their told without thought or challenge. The conformists. Been very evident over the last few years.

So you think recreational use of cannabis should be illegal and as such should be reclassified as a type 5 narcotic. You are of course entitled to your views. If you think giving the money going into the economy back to the drug lords and corrupt officials is the way to go then fair enough. That's your opinion. Have you considered though that regulation is possibly a better way to go and that recreational use isn't the demon you seem to think it is. I also wonder if your views come from a conservative/religious point of view. If they do then I understand where you are coming from.

It's a fair point but some didn't even do that. Here's a million baht to not vote for yourself but vote for me. Absolutely obvious from the start.

It was obviously enforced to an extent. That's why supermarkets and places like 711 still have to comply to the prohibition hours "enforced" by the Thaksin government. Enforced and how it's enforced are two different things. It's compulsory i.e. required by law that alcohol is not sold to minors. This happens all the time. It's compulsory to wear a helmet, seatbelts, don't speed, don't drink and drive but obviously this happens all the time. What doesn't happen is the possibility of going to a 711 at 10:30 in the morning or 4:30 in the afternoon and buy a beer. This happened and was "enforced" by the Thaksin govt in 2004. As I said in a previous post one day you could by a beer in 711 at 4:30 in the arvo and the next day you couldn't. I was here for that.

There's a very close to 100% if not 100% chance you too have been exposed to Covid. It's a virus that can be asymptomatic. You do not know you have the virus in your system. A very clever piece of evolution which we are witnessing in real time. Of course our immune system attacks the virus and kills it. Well most it. The bits that have evaded our immune system then reproduce and jump to other hosts and after some time a new variant has evolved and the process continues. If you think wearing a mask, washing your hands and being jabbed for the rest of your life means you will never be exposed to the aerosolized viral particles of SarsCov2 now in the Omicron era, then I'm not sure I'm the stupid one.

Thing is when you can't answer a question an support it rationally this is always your retort. If you've got nothing to say don't say anything.

Ah! So you think regulation is necessary. So do I. Regulation not recriminalisation by making it a class 5 narcotic again. As for this initial policy it was like all other policies in Thailand. Open mouth first think later.

I wasn't talking about Anutin's rhetoric. I was talking about the real world economic benefits of the commercialisation of dope for recreational purposes.

That's more the Privy Council than the Senate.

I think the Thai people know what democracy is and isn't and it's clear from the last election, what's happened after the election and subsequent polls that they know Thailand isn't a democracy and want reform. They want the corrupt dinosaurs out.

Were you here in 2004 when one day you could buy beer in 711 at 4:00pm and the next day you couldn't? Who was the PM then? Thaksin. My post wasn't a generalisation. I was stating a matter of fact. How it's been enforced was not part of my OP. "As I remember it was Thaksin that enforced it in 2004."

By far the biggest "economic application" is the continuance of decriminalisation albeit with regulation.

It wasn't an election it was a selection a selection that from the outset was obvious it was open to manipulation and corruption. This part they organised quite well as the selection process does indeed seem to have been manipulated by corruption.

Internet. That's where I've heard it. Yes, it is funny.

This is a widely used term.

That's a fair point but it's still BYD a Chinese company flooding the global market with heavily subsidized products.