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No, there is such a thing and @dinsdale has already posted a link confirming it exists.

Sure it is, but then so are random unsupported diagnoses by random internet posters with no clinical background. That is EXACTLY what I said about @dinsdale

Yes doctor, right doctor... I am not as much "demonising dope" as you are its cheerleader. And I'm not squirming as much as you are.

More posturing.

You missed the point completely but never mind. I'm sure you will Google cannabis psychosis and then copy/paste the first article you find right here (with your added emphasis). And, as if on queue. Now, how's your reading comprehension? We have a story about one unfortunate guy, out of probably several thousand, who may have smoked or otherwise consumed cannabis. This one guy has then had some form of psychotic event. We don't know for sure what has caused it. I said cannabis psychosis is real. Some others here have acknowledged that, with some offering anecdotal evidence. I did not say it was the confirmed cause of this, or any of the other frequent reports of inexplicably weird, dangerous or violent behaviour from obviously disturbed individuals. It may be rare, like the one in several thousand I suggested above, but it does exist. Anyway, thanks for the copy/paste of an article that also includes the words, "serious... acute symptoms... very serious... acute and temporary... some people will be more vulnerable", etc. (my emphasis).

And so are ignorant people. If this guys actually on drugs then I'd say ice or ya-ba big time, hasn't slept for days and had a total paranoia freak out. I've never been diagnosed with ignorance. So tell me, what's it like?

Cannabis psychosis is real.

Are you sure? There was nothing fake about the double-headed dildo I recently bought on there.

Not even the mess, and the noise?

Commenting on the trustworthiness of Thai people, especially those you do not know, is not advice, it's just your opinion.

Speed reading again are we @Dan747? Where does the OP and the Gallup Poll referenced mention anything about, and let me quote you here, "ILLEGALS...PERIOD!" ?

My mum gave me herpes. Did you know your mum? Did she tell you she really wanted a girl?

For a horrible moment there, I thought AseanNow had been sold to PattayaAddicts. But, in the interest of public health and safety, and including the 7 done standing up behind the dumpster round the side of The Tower in Hull, my total is 8.

There's a "wrong" opening? Am I missing something here?

I struggled with your use of tense and punctuation, but I think you are either complaining or simply highlighting how visa agents are allowed to do what they do? That has nothing to do with why Bangkok Bank is under some form of censure. I have been told by a visa agent that is not in Pattaya, that it is business as usual, for those with Bangkok Bank accounts with the requisite funds in place. The same agent said that for those without the proper funds, all they need to do is open a new account with a bank other than Bangkok Bank. In other words, business as usual. Any debate about what is considered to be legal or otherwise in Thailand is for the birds.

So he's in that elite small percentile of men who are successful at pickup, dating and relationships on Soi Buakhao? Gutted. I thought they they really did love me longtime.

What rant? I was responding to @thailand49's notion that a single Bangkok Bank branch's illegal activities has "gotten official paranoia" and rumors that Chinese Triads run half the provinces and most of Bangkok. Any paranoia is in the heads of some farangs, while the less gullible ones are opening accounts at other banks as advised. Business as usual. I have no idea what "loss of opportunity cost" is but like the majority here, I'm not Australian.

They are not suspecting all foreigners with accounts at Bangkok Bank of money laundering, and they are not searching for "those that are using agent to obtain Extensions without funds required" either. Simply put, it's just unfortunate that some foreigners applying for an extension and using an agent due to lack of funds have an account with Bangkok Bank. It's collateral damage, that's all. That's why agents are simply advising those customers affected to open an account with another bank. There's a rather long-winded, scaremongering YouTube going the rounds that I think maybe you have seen? It's the one that starts with the narrator, who sounds like an English-speaking Thai, walking around upstairs at CW, then out and about on Bangkok's streets. Alluding to "an informant in immigration", it promotes a Thai government plan to get rid of foreigners unless they are rich, along with other popular tropes of the "they don't like us here" collective. It goes completely off-piste with a rant about frozen pensions that has naff all to do with immigration or extensions, and that's when I lost the little interest I had.

Strictly speaking you are wrong. It is a renewal, or possibly conversion, of visa status. A visa cannot be renewed. It is dead the moment border immigration uses the entry stamp. They even overstamp the visa with 'USED', or they used to when multi-entry visas were still available, probably to avoid confusion or speed things up on a subsequent entry. Since only single-entry Non-O's are issued these days, there's no need to indicate it is used any more. So, annual extension, or renewal of annual extension, is the correct term.

Hi Mike. What's your visitor traffic looking like now?

I'm not so sure about that. My ex-wife was a real piece of work.

By all accounts they are a bit hard to find among the tsunami of honking, messed up and angry ladyboys that seem to be a necessary addition to most bars these days.

This acceptance of the amart and, "it is what it is" pretty much mirrors the dulled perceptions and expectations of the prai here in Thailand, just without the awful genocide bit.

And your "probable scenario" even more so.

Placadrs, stickres. You know singes