rosetintedspecs

Europe is dropping most restrictions for entry. Given that the tourist business has been hurt hardest and they affect the poorest members of society, surely just show a vaccination certificate on entry and a test within 72 hours of entry, and scrap the insurance requirement. Job done! Omicron is a peanut.

I am afraid the only solution is to legalise ALL drugs, use and sale. If we regulate the market we will end up with all marijuana sales in the lovely hands of the CP Group and Central, or possibly Beer Singh and Chang!! Why do we have no CRAFT beer in thailand? Because Beer Chang and Singh don't want them around, even though in reality they are not competition for CRAFT beer at all. But back to the drugs, 230,000 people in jail for drugs, while they are there, the families are screwed up, no beadwinner. And for what? To fatten the pockets of prosecutors department and the police. If you pay? No jail. So the weakest members of society and up in the clink. The system is so silly as to be unreal. Let's just recognise that there is a market for drugs and stop criminalising it. Alcohol and tobacco are drugs but are tolerated even though alcohol in particular causes far more behavioural issues than marijuana does.

This regulation was brought in by the first Taksin government on the basis that it would protect school children from being sold alcohol in convenience stores between leaving school and getting home. Yes, they really believed that would work. The real reason for Taksin doing this is that it was rumoured his son was a drug addict and he, and his interior ministry wanted to use this rule as a way to make himself and his party popular with older, more conservative voters. It really should be scrapped, it is a stupid idea. Pointless if the shopkeepers are doing their job asking kids for proof of ID. While we are at it, we should also be reducing the age of drinking to 18 from 20. Would you believe you can join the army at 16 and go to war. be shot dead, but you can't go out for a beer. What a joke!!

Road quality and layout are really only a very small part of the horrific problem. Let's try the simple obvious ones first before we spend 15billion year: 1. Drink driving, apparently over 50% of drivers involved in accidents have alcohol in their system 2. Police corruption, if you are drunk and involved in an accident, you pay the policeman to make the problem go away. 3) Police corruption, as in Mr. "Boss: Yoovidhaya killing a police officer when howling drunk/high. pay, and the problem goes away. 4) Driving licenses were generally bought rather than earned through a driving test 5) Illegal driving. Go anywhere and you will see kids up country aged around 12 driving motor bikes and nobody gives a damn 6) He says trucks and vans are always in the left lane. Not in Thailand they are not. Everyone tries to drive in the so called "fast lane" on the right. Including the ten tonne trucks. I usually end up overtaking on the left hand lane, because it is nearly always empty. A major campaign needs to be undertaken to eradicate this behaviour. 7) FAith in amulets. Big issue here. Most Thai males (and plenty of females too) believe that they will be protected from all evil by whacking a buddha image or 3 on the dashboard. Given that the whole country is totally absorbed by ghost culture, this is not surprising. But it does need to be de-bunked. Well the above are just starters. Spend the 15billion on advertising on TV. Frighten the living daylights out of the public as they did with smoking and photos on cigarette packets.