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Great - so the perfect solution is violence ?

What a laugh with the selection of photo at the head of that article. That place isn't quite ready to transition to bing a clinic :))

... meaning drivers still ignore pedestrian crossings even though these are painted red and have flashing lights. - Police should be stoping and fining drivers who charge through these crossings - easy to do and good money to be made! (But I guess it would cause the mother of all traffic jams because 99% of cars would be stopped. Better idea might be just to cancel driving licenses after two or three offences.

Whether the guy on the ground was intoxicated is entirely irrelevant to the fact that the driver injured him.

Thailand's official stance has always emphasized medical and health-related use, even during the liberalization wave. Recreational use has never been formally legalized, though it was de facto tolerated for a brief period due to legal loopholes.

These are small interruptions in keepling things safe and legal. Good on them for the effort. Try living in the U.K. instead where the police have lost the streets to crime and can do nothing to retrieve the lawless situation..

How is this possibly relevant? Economic demographics of the two countries are totally different both internally and in relation to tourists too. Besides the UK is socialist-cum-communist and Thailand's philosophy is principally self-sufficiency and less state interference.

The ignorance quotient of the average person everywhere these days seems to have risen hugely on the back of a preference to believe any sensationalism and an inability to inquire.

Difficult to know what to make of this. On one hand there's no indication he had a prescription for cannabis and so was attempting to break the law in seeking it for fun use and getting onto any altercation with a dispensary is totally dumb and arrest is entirely defensible. The car but of the story is very odd - on one hand he says he had the owner's permission to drive it but then, because he was drugged at the time wasn't aware of anything. None of this seems to hold water and looks like typical Daily Mail rabble-rousing. Then his Mum's bit on the GFM page further embroiders the tale of woe with your even mentioning the original altercation he started with the dispensary which cause the original address. On the other hand, IF his story of captivity is true at all (and how can it be if, as he says, he was hallucinating) the Police concerned ought to be in big trouble. in my view - based on what is reported - this little angel is not telling the entire story and giving it plenty of "poor me".

USA, Canada and Australia repeatedly offered asylum for these people but Thailand refuses that and sent them to hell instead.

He is also lying. USA, Canada and Australia repeatedly offered asylum for these people but Thailand refuses that and sent them to hell instead.

He is lying - USA, Canada and Australia repeatedly offered asylum for these people but Thailand refuses that and sent them to hell instead.

Utter lies - USA, Canada and Australia repeatedly offered asylum for thee people. Thailand has sinned badly.

The lad clearly has some psychological developmental issues, may well be at risk of his life and needs clinical help - not public judgement and trolling by a load of ageing cretins.

Poor Thailand? It's what happen when human values are thrown out of the window purely for self-interest.