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1 hour ago, cyril sneer said:

100 baht at my local 

There will definitely be some tidy profit made selling good bud and by-products to discerning tourists, but for the most part, weed will be as cheap as rice in most Thai markets.

Unlike rice, many locals will grow their own because each strain has specific qualities, and even back in the day, there were grower videos in Thai on you tube that were very good advice. So home grower education will explode. The Thai people know a thing or two about getting the best from the land as it is.

In so many ways, decriminalising weed will be seen as a watershed moment in Thai history.

I can't think of a single better move to boost tourism, than promoting the stoner culture right now.

There will be challenges ahead, it's not all wine and roses, but, there's almost no other single thing they could do to recover the tourist economy, than go easy on tourists who come here to enjoy good weed and everything that goes along with it, in peace.

1 hour ago, Bday Prang said:

Asean now have promoted many "reefer madness"  type stories on here, yet, somewhat perversely have also  started an informative "cannabis forum"  I wonder why

Misinformed outbursts by people quoting the tired old anti cannabis propaganda should be classed as fake news and removed

 

No, it's important that misinformation in this case, is countered with science.

It's also important that we users are mature in recognising everything has a down side, and weed is not for everyone.

Having said that, I find the hysteria around genuine mental health risks hilarious.

If I came to learn that cannabis was detrimental to my mental health, well I would simply not partake!

They go off as if these unfortunate people are being held down and force fed the drug! 

Same with kids, just keep it out of their hands, punish severely anyone who supplies minors, and don't panic if a child consumes active THC edibles they may throw up, they may be distressed at feeling stoned, but they will not become addicted or otherwise harmed by an accidental intake (raw weed is inactive one will never get stoned no matter how much is consumed).

Just RELAAAAXXXX the sky isn't going to fall.

Seriously, why do people who have never tried weed always seem to open their flap and dictate mostly complete ignorant nonsense to third-party others?

Why are they so paranoid about a plant that has never in all of human history killed anyone, not even an unsuspecting child eating a pound of THC edibles?

Just freaking chill. Go and TRY some!

.... Because you might stop being a miserable drug-warrior party-pooper, or a beer-chugging old-schooler, who smells the weed on the winds of change, and realises weed is now potentially much cheaper than booze in Thailand and is a better social lubricant (especially in the sack) than booze is too!

How could you possibly abandon the catpee tang of Chang?

Think of the billionaire beer barons! ???? (They prefer non-liquid coke!)

10 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

I don't think it is wrong, for anywhere, for any citation.  Gov't or workplace.

 

As long as they are qualified, or can learn the job, task at hand quickly, why not hire someone you know & trust.

Because the business of Government is not a family enterprise, and leads to dirty deeds done dirt cheap.

 Mind you, he's in good company, nepotism is rife in:

Singapore, The Phillipines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Russia, India, the good old USA, Britain, and many more, only they're not dim enough to stand in front of the press and actually justify it!

That's Count Spatulas property.

Legend has it he moved to LoS at the height of the Amazon digital nomad craze, only to discover 64 billion other geniuses had the same dream of quick riches selling spatulas. 

He died broke from alcohol poisoning and was bitten by a Chinese bat that escaped from a zero baht tour bus, as his truck passed on the way to the morgue, thus turning him into a Vampire.

Since there are very few virgins to prey on in Pattaya, he survives on Soi 6 Bloody Mary's, which gets him hammered most nights, and so he forgets where he parks his coffin frequently.

8 hours ago, worgeordie said:

It's not just the 700 people dead , it affects their family's ,the places

where they worked , there's so much more to it , it's devastating ,and

nothing is really getting done about it , 

regards worgeordie

 

It rarely impacts the elites.

When it does, it's usually when they, or one of their coked-up kids, cocooned in luxurious safety, wipes out some hapless yokel, but that's all sorted out in the usual "whatever it takes" way, and that is why nothing is done.

2 hours ago, KIngsofisaan said:

The USA views Thailand as a strategic geographic location for staging troops and equipment, in the event of war in Asia.

 

Been that way since Vietnam.

 

Pretty sure the US wishes they had other choices due Thailand's poor record on human rights, copyright infringement and many other things, but they do not.

What was the famed Nixon comment about a similar Central American situation? "He may be a SOB but he's our SOB!"

I was more interested in the U Tapao history to be honest.

One time in an earlier life, I was one of the crew on a QF Jumbo out of Frankfurt, a storm over DMK forced a diversion and we landed and refueled in U Tapao before flying back to DMK a few hours later. We opened the doors on the windward side of the aircraft with safety straps, and the fragrant sea breeze had the tired pax sigh with delight as one! Back then, Jumbos carried a video/DVD on how to refuel them for the use of untrained ground crews in exactly these situations. It was all visually represented so no language required to understand it. 

He also bought the prisoners each a lunch from the market. It was all over Thai Twitter yesterday.

But the Salim run news media don't want you to know that. 

He's a genuinely good man, Thailand need more of him desperately.

Nothing new in a big city, the sewer "fatbergs" of London and New York have made headlines for years. 

Pity it can't all be processed into some sort of fuel on the cheap though.

Here's an idea, get the animals re-distributed in remote habitat sanctuaries where they belong, far from tourists, and wean them off reliance on humans for food.