My good buddy is a grower, he's invested over $1M US in his operation. I advised him not to do it. Why should him growing weed affect our friendship? I am not anti-weed. He can afford to lose his investment, we're both wealthy guys and we discussed other ex-pats like myself going in with him and I advised against that too in case it goes South, as it looks like it might.
As I said before, I am not against recreational use of cannabis subject to some safeguards. Those safeguards don't currently exist in Thailand.
As for gaslighting, Anutin himself said recreational use is illegal, whether the current framework of the law reflects that, I can't say, I don't know what other laws he was referring to.
I only call people out when they make erroneous statements like Cannabis is not addictive, it's ok for adolescents, it's safe, it doesn't cause psychoses or violence.