NaamGin
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Funny, but for someone that has been coming to Thailand for over a decade and still not know about the Karaoke scam, you should know better. What's the old saying, there's a sucker born every minute.
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I just want to add an update to this topic.
I regularly order dietary supplements from a popular supplier in the US and have them shipped to Thailand. In a recent order, I included 360 gel caps of CBD Oil, not even thinking about the legality of having this product shipped to Thailand at the time. After realizing what the implications may be, I began doing some research on what might happen if the shipment raised a flag with Customs, which led me to this thread. Most of what I found was negative on the subject without much substantiation. After reading the post from Xaos on page one of this thread, I went to the Thai FDA website ( http://permitfortraveler.fda.moph.go.th/) and completed the form using "CBD Oil and cannabidiol" as the keys, printed out the results and took it with me to Customs when notified that the package had arrived. I knew the package had been flagged by Customs as I had 2 other packages from the same shipment arrive at my house without delay. The flagged package was delayed by 2 weeks from the arrival of the other packages in the shipment.
When I arrived at Customs and as expected, the package had been flagged because of the CBD Oil. The Customs officer knew the story about CBD Oil and was hesitant to release it to me without substantiation. That is when I showed her the FDA form which she referred to as an "aww paw" in Thai and I told her that the CBD Oil was for personal use, at which point she relented and let me have the shipment. The key to getting the CBD Oil was having the "aww paw" to present to her. She even said that if I didn't have this document, I would not have gotten the CBD Oil.
As a side note, when you just click Print in your web browser, it will not print the headers and footers on the web page. This is where the official logos are for the FDA. I wanted the logos to appear on the hard copy, so I used a screen capture program to grab the entire page, saved it to a PDF file, then printed that, including the headers and footers. Sure enough, the Customs officer took one look at the logo at the top of the page and accepted the document as an aww paw and not a forgery.
We all know of the sometimes erratic nature in which Thai laws are enforced from place to place and sometimes from day to day. This is just my anecdotal experience, YMMV.
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Foreigners driving cars around town with their driver’s side window down
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Complaining about people driving with their windows down? I've heard some pretty bizarre complaints from foreigners about other foreigners before, but this one sets some kind of new record.