peter zwart

What a great idea it was to legalize cannabis after all.

Sure, 145 million baht isn't an astronomical amount, but wouldn't that money be far better spent on new equipment for public hospitals or on better training and salaries for doctors? Last time I checked, it's still called medicine (make people better when they are sick), not make-believe science.

They really are the lowest of the lowest.

Thnx for that. I will try.....uhhh pass it on.

A good friend of mine 🙂 told me this weekend that he no longer has access to all the sites with various 'beautiful nature' films. Have more friends of AN visitors noticed this as well?

This shows a problem some people see with the LGBTQ community. Some feel hurt or attacked too easily. If you often want to be in the spotlight with parades and events, it’s normal that people will have opinions. If you want to be treated like everyone else, maybe stop trying so hard to stand out. In the end, we’re all just people.

Intelligent....yes, reasonable........absolutely NOT

He is the man who has been lying to the Dutch people for 12 years.

This was always one of the possible scenarios—especially considering the fact that it was made clear from the beginning that it was intended for medicinal purposes. The fact that the rules were blatantly ignored and a shop was opened for recreational purposes is therefore a risk that was consciously taken. I can't feel sorry for the shop owners, even though I wish everyone success. As for the employees, they'll find another job. For tourism, it's actually a positive development. Too many people were bothered by the strong smell and the, partly inappropriate, crowd it attracted, which didn't do tourism any favors. Road safety in Thailand was already a disaster, but it certainly hasn't improved with the rise in cannabis use. But first, let’s see if the situation actually turns out to be as serious as it's being portrayed.

It's good to see that there is some action on this matter. Now also put many decent bins on the beach and empty them on regular base. And to all the SH's (Thai and Farang) that dump their garbage on the beach........clean up your own mess.

That you're angry... fine. That you honk once in a while... fine. That there are complete idiots on the road who can really get under your skin... absolutely. But to react so aggressively over these kinds of minor incidents — then you're definitely missing a few brain cells. Getting worked up over other people’s "mistakes" just isn’t worth the trouble.

Nooo, don’t do it. Then many will lose their anonymity and won’t dare to post (complain) freely anymore, and there won’t be much left to laugh about.

The good and relaxed life in Thailand became too much for Elmer as well.

Now bombs are falling everywhere like rain from the sky, and people are still getting worked up over this WOKE BS? It's very simple: a woman gets pregnant, and a man does not. That’s just a biological fact.

And in the end, we come full circle, back to the retired Westerner and the Western tourist. It's been a proven concept for decades. These are the people who don't have palm trees in their home countries, suffer from a lack of sunshine, a severe shortage of attractive women, and who have a fairly reliable source of income (a pension). Add to that the general dissatisfaction of the average Westerner with their own country, and the circle is complete.

But still alive and never have the doubt of something where is no solid proof for. in either way.

I think I would feel quite uncomfortable if I were vaccinated and read research findings like these. Could those crazies, the anti-vaxxers, have been right after all?

Where did i hear that before? As long their Baht in their pockets are not in danger.

Who says we’re even interested in that?

I still don’t understand why Thailand always feels the need to do things differently and target other groups that, as it turns out, don’t really benefit the country. Why not stick to the tried-and-true concept that has proven itself: older men from the West who have secured their pensions, cause little trouble, and are good for the Thai women? That target group is large enough and growing.

I largely agree with you. In particular, the incredibly poor customer service is a major irritation for me. The question, however, is: what is causing this change in behavior? Is it the arrival of pumped-up muscleheads from the West who need to act out their inferiority complexes on a daily basis and don’t know how to behave? Is it the TAT that first targeted the Chinese and now the Indians and Arabs? Or have the Thais been spoiled by the easy money of recent years? What I do know is that Thailand needs to get its act together quickly, or it will be left with nothing but bottom-tier tourism.

I am afraid that AI will cause catastrophic accidents. Even if you assume that exceptionally smart people oversee the entire playing field and future developments, once AI surpasses human intellect, we enter areas that the human brain simply could not foresee. Additionally, there will be madmen/countries that develop their own models for destructive purposes.

I’m more in favor of the competition model than of a price-inflating monopoly. And that’s only because the traditional taxi services have completely misbehaved, lost a lot of customers as a result, and caused significant damage to the tourism sector. So what it comes down to is that when you behave badly, you still end up being protected or even rewarded.

And that's exactly why they invented helmets.

I once read a quote that went something like this: Most Thai people are friendly and calm. But as soon as they get into a car or onto a motorcycle, they turn into kamikaze pilots.