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In other news, stir-crazy middle class Chinese people rushed out of lockdown in Beijing and Shanghai to Hainan Island beach resorts, only to be locked down (and then mercilessly gouged in additional food and accommodation fees) in Hainan! Xi is making sure that he makes even more of a Communist disaster out of China than his long-dead hero, (and the world's greatest mass murderer in all human history) Chairman Mao. ???? Any Mainland Chinese tourists spotted in Thailand for the foreseeable future are likely to be big time CCP Cadres or their close relations. I'm waiting for the first cold-war style high profile defections to start sometime this year...

The last of the "Hippy backpackers" grew up and got real jobs in the mid 1980s. The current "Zoomer" (Gen Z) backpackers are far more sophisticated drug users, as evidenced by the full moon party drug "menus". Weed is also used by them as a "come-down" from amphetamines, or as a potentiator of other chemicals, such as Acid, psylocybe, MDMA, Ket, etc. Also, outside of conservative propaganda, there's no scientific evidence that cannabis is a "gateway" drug.

The rule about public smoking of ganja, has a caveat. If the public place is set aside as a "reefer" bar, there is no restriction smoking weed in that bar, tobacco is still banned, because second hand tobacco smoke is far more carcinogenic than cannabis smoke. The only other current restriction is that if a member of the public makes a complaint to police, then they will take action under the public nusciance laws. There has to be an actual complaint before the law is able to take effect!

Ganja floating in the outside breeze is almost impossible to pinpoint unless you're very near the user, good luck with them public nuisance fines. I can think of far worse "aromas" in the world right now, such as the eye-watering assault to the senses from fetid Thai khlongs, or the nightly war-zone stench of burning trash in the Phillipines, with a special mention to the eau-de-cadaver fragrance of Cebu City garbage mountain that blows across the strait to the resort island of Mactan, what a wonderful accompaniment to a sunset beer! Then there's the reek of Indonesian Kretek, the clove-scented tobacco, that kills millions, even as they fly into a blind moral panic at the mere mention of cannabis! All olfactory reminders that there are far worse evils in this world to wake up to -and deal with; than a bit of herbal happiness.

Why are so many really bright people, like Khun Chadchart (PhD) and doctors refuse to accept the Science? Everything we consume has its risks. We get it. Demonizing drugs just because an arsehat like Harry Anslinger had a bigotry problem is a terrible way to run the world in 2022. If they don't like drugs, fine. Say so. Nobody is forcing them or thiers to take them. But quit the scaremongering BS!