JBChiangRai

Perhaps I am biased, I sat on the bench as a magistrate for a few years and saw the damage marijuana can do. I have a friend receiving medical treatment for depression now in a health farm, she recently started eating space brownies. I drove her there myself last Monday, she’s receiving rTMS therapy. I ask people with depression if they are marijuana users, a high percentage say they are. I used a little in 2004 and a year later had my one and only bout of depression.

Cannabis Pharmacy, The Practical Guide to Medical Marijuana. Michael Backes, Andrew Neil M.D. and Jack McCue M.D.

If the law is followed, cannabis with 0.2% THC won’t cause a problem. Unfortunately, it’s not being followed and THC content nearer 100 times that is being sold. In higher concentrations (enough to give a high) it can cause mental illness in a significant proportion of people and affects brain development in most young and still developing brains. I am not sharing an opinion, I am stating medical fact. Thailand is ill prepared for mental illness.

So now you know what the chicken is in your Bhuna

I think you are misunderstanding the numbers. The OP is talking about government charging stations, presumably they mean PEA, MEA, EGAT. There are hundreds of privately owned/managed high voltage DC charging stations already at PTT, EA Anywhere, MG, ElexA, EVP, CL etc etc and hundreds more AC charging stations at Malls, Restaurants, Petrol Stations, Coffee Shops and many of them are free. A savvy EV owner can charge and travel for free all over the country. I commute Chiang Rai to Chiang Mai every few weeks and never pay to charge my battery EV car.

That statement was intended to be an attempt at hyperbole humour, ill advised I'd agree, humour rarely travels in digital form. There is a website set up that appears to be for general property sales, but in fact it only promotes one development (by a Dutch guy I think).

Somebody please tell bechou and yknot that spaghettimilanese can’t reply to their messages because he was the other party banned. So to answer your question yknot (how friendly is that?), that’s how friendly it is, and that’s how lightly moderated it is.

Not really! Everyone is banned or hates the owner.

That forum is based on Simple Machines Forum Software, they don’t support admins reading Private Messages, actually they are totally against it, but there are 3rd party tools to do it, but you have to actively decide to be a nosey parker.

I haven’t posted there for the best part of a month (I prefer not to), but I was banned 2 days ago, hours after an exchange of Private Messages with another member criticising the owner of that site, we were discussing how he hears voices and does irrational things. The other member was also banned, and he assured me he did not share our Private Messages.

I don’t buy that. His Red Notice was visible some years ago, now it’s not, but other Thai villains Red Notices are visible. Why would it suddenly disappear? Photos of him enjoying the high life occasionally appear, for example in London. Are we really to believe his passport doesn’t trigger Law Enforcement to react as he crosses borders? and that for some unknown reason the RTP asked Interpol to hide his Red Notice? The simplest and most likely explanation is probably the answer here.

The car exiting the junction from a side road (turning right) has priority over the car on the main road turning right into the side road.

There doesn't appear to be an Interpol Red Notice out for Boss... View Red Notices (interpol.int)

Traffic lights is a different case. What I said is actually the law, not custom. When you are turning right into a side road, traffic exiting turning right onto the main road have priority. I saw a poster about this on the steps up to the 2nd floor in the Pattaya driving licence centre and it sometimes features in driving tests on the computer.

I am from the UK, we also drive on the LHS. I have only noticed one difference with the law here, if you are on the main road turning right into a side road, people exiting the side road have priority and you must give way, it is totally the opposite in the UK. Then you have local customs, in Chiang Rai we only have one roundabout, it is fed by a dual carriageway each side and two side roads perpendicular to the dual carriageway. All the approach roads are clearly marked with white stop lines on the road, but drivers on the dual carriageway think they have priority. I witnessed an accident there once and discussing with the insurance assessor he told me that the guy who thought he could cross the white line straight onto the roundabout was at fault, i.e. exactly the same as in the UK (I think France is different)

This says it all. You recognise your business's success is dependent on your staff. Treat them as you would your closest family, show them you are one of them and that you value them. I have run a successful business here for 8 years, I have lost one member of staff in that time, because she moved away. I don't pay substantially more than anyone else, upper quartile for sure, but my staff would consider me their friend and I likewise. Yes we get the same grandfather dies every year from some of them, but I turn a blind-eye. Face is everything in Thailand. There is always Lao-khao for them to drink at the end of the working day, if the ice cream bike comes around, they all get given ice creams etc etc. You need to have a special set of inter-personal skills to be successful with Thai workers, never criticise, handle poor workmanship with great tact. If you don't have these skills, you'll always have a high workforce turnover.

It’s well know by the Western medical community that the smallpox vaccine gives some protection from Monkeypox even after several decades. The BBC wrote an article on it recently. I don’t know if Thai children get the smallpox vaccine though.

It’s legal until an IO says it’s not. I had a discussion with an IO about this when I notified them of a friend’s death, he used just such a service, the most well known one, his visa was issued out of province. She said they know which foreigners do it, and for now they let it slide, until either (a) you upset an IO or (b) a crackdown is ordered. She expressed surprise they hadn’t had a crackdown yet. You can guarantee there will be one at some point. Probably when a farang does something stupid and it hits the news that he didn’t have the necessary bank balance. Then they will come for you… Good guys in, bad guys out (which do you think you are if you didn’t really meet the conditions to stay here?). She also said she wouldn’t renew a visa to someone who had previously used an agent without them showing they historically had the required bank balance for the agent’s visa, so in some cases once you use an agent, you’ll always use an agent.

My daughters (18 & 19) have just started at Payap University and I'm buying them a house for the next 4 years. The developer says he can't transfer the chanote into my 19 year old daughter's name until she's 20. Does anyone have any experience of doing this at San Kamphaeng District Land Office with a child under 20? We are property developers in Chiang Rai, and know first hand that each individual land office has its own rules, I'm only interested in this particular land office.

To answer your question, you can apply for the elite visa yourself, or you can use an agent, it will cost exactly the same. However, the agents know what to look out for and a good agent will go through the KYC process and assist you to remove any red flags, for example any posts on your social media that will prevent you being accepted. They will also act as intermediaries on any questions TPC Co. might have in the vetting process and advise you on the best response to their questions. Not everyone passes the vetting process for an Elite Visa. Under 50, you don't have much choice. Over 50, you can use an agent for 15k-20k, all these visa agents are basically providing an illegal service that is unlikely to continue indefinitely, it comes down to your appetite for risk. Over 50, you can do it properly with the money in the bank, currently 800k for a retirement extension, bear in mind that effectively you're tieing up 800k every year, at some point that 800k will probably increase, as long as you can tie up the new amount, you may prefer this method, again, it comes down to your appetite for risk, the new amount could be substantially more than the 1 million baht needed for a 20 year Elite. Personally, I preferred to use an agent for a 20 year elite superiority extension at a million baht. In effect I'm tieing up 200k more than a retirement extension, but I'm future proofing my position for 20 years. I suspect I'll be dead before those 20 years are up. My visa agent specifically asked me about multiple withdrawals from my bank account here overseas and presented it to TPC Co. in a way that removed the potential hurdle from my application.

And of course lowering of IQ /Cognitive ability https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/healing-addiction/202203/marijuana-users-have-lower-iq-in-middle-age-research-suggests

I had 28.8 KWhrs of LiFePo4 batteries and 3 of Must Hybrid 5.5Kw Inverters delivered this way, and just last week an EV car charger. The savings can be massive, up to 50%. I think this must be how Lazada also deliver duty free from China.

If you're ordering anything of value through AliExpress, always ask the supplier to ship it without duty or tax on arrival. There is a specific system for doing this, it can take a little longer.

Witch! Burn him at the stake! Oh! They’ve already done that.

I agree with you regarding moral panic and legal remedies. The government here is trying to stop people from under 20 taking it, and you can only do that through the law, which they recognise. I’m concerned about people getting high and mental health issues, Thailand is ill equipped to deal with it. On the whole, I’m in favour of decriminalising cannabis and some other drugs. To answer your question on alcohol related crime, I saw at least a 10 fold increase with alcohol, especially violent crime late at night, specifically at pubs and clubs and of course the inevitable driving over the legal limit. I never saw any violent crime with ecstasy (MDMA), in fact we saw an incredible reduction in violent crime around the clubs that were known to favour that over alcohol. Clubs like Camden Palace you would expect to see 10-12 alcohol fueled assaults from an audience of 7,000, we knew they sold practically no alcohol and the club ran on ecstasy, but we had no assaults to deal with, not ever. I think the police let sleeping dogs lie. I can’t help wondering if we missed an opportunity to licence that and control its purity, maybe we could have avoided the occasional death we saw on the news.