sidneybear

She's nearly at nine holes.

This man sticks around like a fart in a lift.

Who would have known that being prepared makes life less risky? Now we'll have to buy his book to read more statements of the obvious.

In other words, another lefty think tank doesn't think Thailand is woke enough.

The CDC report shows medical facts and data on the detrimental effects of dope on the human brain. You think that business interests driven by the profit to be made from dope are more believable than the CDC though. Next you'll be saying that McDonald's is health food.

Surely you can't be so uninformed: https://www.cdc.gov/cannabis/health-effects/brain-health.html The dope lobby is quite powerful, but it can't get around the inconvenient truth about the negative effects of cannabis on mental health. All people think about is the cost of dope shops closing, rather than the cost of lost productivity. JHC Dude!!! .... *sniggering at you*

What about the economic damage caused by people being stoned all the time? Dope makes people lazy.

Colds have always had lots of variants, so this isn't news.

I got pinged by the Australian Taxation Office once. They sent me a list of each and every remittance I'd made into Australia. Then they asked me to show them where the money had come from, and whether it was derived from savings or foreign income. I had to prove I was non resident, which wasn't that easy. This was over ten years ago, and data matching technology always improves, so don't take it for granted that your security is because of your obscurity.

They will have the resources. In many countries data matching remittances with tax returns is done automatically. The onus will be on the taxpayer (you) to show them where the money comes from.

Maybe the Revenue Department insists that international remittances are correctly marked, for personal income tax assessment reasons.

Their last Baht didn't disappear into thin air though. Lots of people made a tidy profit from the weed boom.

Not all of us here are insulting people for using cannabis. The purpose of this thread is to discuss legislation, so it's expected that some people will be for the upcoming changes, and some will be against. Accusing everyone of alcohol abuse who has a view that differs from yours is just plain silly. It makes one wonder whether cannabis has affected your ability to hold polite conversations about the effects of cannabis on society, and the reasons why it might need to be controlled. Right now, cannabis is as available as candy, and its effects on young people in particular are harmful. Yes, alcohol can be harmful too if it is abused - we all know that - but why does that mean other nasty substances should be made available too? What next? Attractively branded heroin "dispensaries" on every street corner?

Discussion is the raison d'être of a discussion forum. If everyone agreed with everyone else, there would be no more discussion, and no more forum. All you do is accuse people who disagree with you of being drunkards, which is a really daft way to conduct a conversation.

You said it yourself: Enforcement happens in the west that doesn’t happen in Thailand. In the west, they'll always bust you and pin huge fines on you for even minor traffic offences. Western countries have gigantic, parasitic governments that are hugely expensive to support. Thailand is much more flexible, and cheaper to get yourself out of trouble, which is why we love the place.