HugoFastor

Yes, the limit is 3 plants in both Thailand and Germany. But my point was that the unmonitored 3 plant limit is the same limit in other developed Western countries as it is in Thailand. So 3 is not considered excessive.

Yes, I will admit it's very hard for me to focus on a wall of verbose text when someone is spewing utter mindless and unfounded rubbish, but I'm working on my problem. 😉

Well done. No bottles of that rot gut 40 degree rice wine from 7-11 though? It doubles as embalming fluid too, so its consumption is always appreciated by morticians. 😂

Just for the record, I didn't read a single word of this post.

Starting April 1 you will be permitted to grow 3 cannabis plants at home anywhere in Germany without any regulation on it. They can grow as big and contain as much THC as you want them too. Germany is a highly functioning, civilized and regulated society. They obviously don't see any issues with it because it isn't a problem. So why should anywhere else be concerned about it?

Are you already drunk this early in the day?

I'll add that when cannabis flowers were removed from the list of criminal Class-5 narcotics in June 2022, that over 3,000 Thai people serving prison sentences related to cannabis at that time were then instantly released from prison. Presumably, the was a big relief to the already over burdened prison system to be able get rid of a few thousand people that were needlessly put in prison for possessing a non-dangerous substance. Should the laws change again to where possession of cannabis flowers will carry a prison sentence, then the whole legal and law-enforcement nightmare would put an unnecessary added strain back onto the prison system again. I don't think Thailand really wants to go back down that same road again.

Almost everyone that gets a colonoscopy have no symptoms of bowel disorders. It is simply a routine diagnostic test to be done every 5 years and recommended for men starting at the age of 50. The problem with colon cancer is that it is a silent traveler, and, if left undetected by a colonoscopy, then often it can be fatal when detected from symptoms that develop once the cancer is in a very progressed stage.

One of the main reasons that Germany just legalized recreational cannabis use is because 50% of the German population, between the ages of 15 and 40, already use cannabis, either on occasion or regularly. At the moment, there are over 200,000 open legal cases in the German courts against German people using cannabis recreationally. It has become a complete law enforcement and judicial nightmare for Germany by consuming lots of tax money and extensive government resources to try to control. So they came to the realization that making it legal was better than trying to stop something that is impossible to stop. With 10 million people in Thailand already using cannabis now, hopefully the government will come to the same understanding and stop trying to stop something that can't be stopped and move onto focusing on the bigger and more dangerous issues facing the country.

One of the main reasons that Germany just legalized recreational cannabis use is because 50% of the German population, between the ages of 15 and 40, already use cannabis, either on occasion or regularly. At the moment, there are over 200,000 open legal cases in the German courts against German people using cannabis recreationally. It has become a complete law enforcement and judicial nightmare for Germany by consuming lots of tax money and extensive government resources to try to control. So they came to the realization that making it legal was better than trying to stop something that is impossible to stop. With 10 million people in Thailand already using cannabis now, hopefully the government will come to the same understanding and stop trying to stop something that can't be stopped and move onto focusing on the bigger and more dangerous issues facing the country.

Agreed. Things might change, but more likely they won't. We will just have to wait and see.

Literally translates to "crazy drug" in English. It is the Thai word for Methamphetamine made in underground labs into an elicit drug and usually sold as red/pink colored tablets.

According to a recent Thai PBS article, 10 million Thais use cannabis already as of now. That's 1 in 7 people in the Thai population: "Estimates suggest the number of cannabis users in Thailand has rocketed 10 times to about 10 million – around one in seven people – since it became the first country in Asia to decriminalize the herb." Changing the law to something else more restrictive now isn't going to reduce that number. Making it harder to get may only cause more problems and opportunities for criminals and the police to extort users. They would be best to focus their resources on controlling the dangerous and addictive drug problems in Thailand instead, things like meth, cocaine and heroine and leave the people who want to use cannabis alone. Of all the substances, alcohol, cigarettes, cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, etc., the only one that's ever prescribed by doctors directly to patients for any medical use or reason is cannabis. There is your answer.

You mean like alcohol and cigarettes?

Online sales are technically illegal, even now. Cannabis is only supposed to be sold by vendors who can personally verify the legal age of the buyer. But whether the post office decides to ever try to stop postal delivery of cannabis remains to be seen. It would be a tricky thing for the post office to monitor, even if the law were to require a medical certificate to purchase cannabis. The majority of people shipping cannabis through the post office now are licensed cannabis vendors. So they are legal sellers. And how would the post office know whether the recipient of the cannabis is going to use it for medical or personal use? It seems like a very difficult thing for the Post Office to get involved with. In fact, you can legally ship any other medicine you want through the post too, as long as it's not classified as a controlled substance. And then if it is a controlled substance, but sent by a hospital or a doctor, then that is also OK.

The same boring, redundant, tired, old argument I've seen posted in these forums countless times. Then comes the barrage of posts explaining how alcohol and cigarettes, although legal, are far more destructive to mental and physical health than cannabis. Although that is 1000% true, I'll let someone else grab the mantle and repeat what has already been explained countless times, but never seems to sink into the heads of the anti-cannabis cabal.

The new legislation removes cannabis from the schedule of the Narcotics Act (BtMG). It allows individuals to possess up to 25 grams in public and 50 grams at home. Additionally, it allows the cultivation of up to three plants per person at home and establishes cannabis social clubs, which will have up to 500 members, from which individuals can obtain up to 50 grams per month. The law (named Cannabis Act or CanG) will come into effect on April 1 for possession and cultivation, while the cannabis social clubs are anticipated to become operational starting from July 1. With this move, Germany becomes the third European Union member state, after Malta and Luxembourg, to legalize recreational cannabis for personal use.

If flowers are not classified back into a criminal class 5 narcotic, then it wouldn't make any sense to do that. Growers aren't the ones they are trying to stop here either. It's all those retail cannabis shops in the tourist districts with people overtly smoking indoors and outdoors in plain sight for pure recreation that they want to get rid of. Any they also want users in general to be using it for medical use at home and not for recreation. It is the end user that is the target here. Not the growers.

But they are not taking about making flower with thc an illegal class 5 narcotic again. They are only proposing that the law state it can only be acquired for medical use and with proof of a medical use need to be presented by buyers.

Not sanctioned by the government or any licensed medical practitioners, so basically not worth anything. Great money maker though for the people selling these useless cards.

One can easily state that anyone who writes a meaningful reply to this inane topic, either long or short, is both bored and lonely. Who can be arsed? Check yourself.

Yes, that all makes perfect logical sense. But that’s not how things are approached. Critical thinking and rational decision making doesn’t enter the equation. It’s all about optics. Thailand doesn’t want the image of being a backpacker/stoner paradise. So public image is what’s on the ballot.

Go ahead, pour yourself another drink, it will make you feel better when that doesn’t happen and the tears start rolling down your cheek. 😂

Is that alcohol I smell on your breath? Ewwww…

If the laws really are going to change it could get cheaper as time goes on rather than more costly. There are already thousands of growers and vendors will want to dump any large existing stock quickly if they think their shop will need to close. Time is on the side of those who wait.