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Any changes to the cannabis laws in Thailand would only affect recreational use and impact retail operations. It wouldn't have any impact on the growers. So it can't go back to only brick weed being available in Thailand. Impossible. Too many growers already invested into operations growing good quality stuff. You could have the loss of domestic consumption result in 30% less demand though, but with roughly the same amount of supply. The laws of supply and demand dictate that when demand drops, and supply remains constant, that prices fall. Hard to predict how prices will go in this market if the laws change again, but raising them even more could only make matters less lucrative for anyone trying to sell to end users. For the most part, retail prices at "dispensaries" aren't low in Thailand to begin with. The majority of them sell 150-200B/G bud for 500-700B/G on average. That's even higher than black market prices in many developed countries where it's still loosely illegal. It's fine to pay those prices if you are a tourist from a country where it's highly illegal, and your only going to buy 2-3 grams for a bit of fun as a one-off during your holiday in Thailand, but the majority of people in Thailand don't and won't pay those prices, not even now. I suspect if the laws change on recreational use that the prices and availability from most of the current suppliers will remain roughly the same. What you will have though are more people in the industry becoming desperate as demand drops. So expect even more of those photos circulating with images of green bud that promise you 30% THC for 10B/G. In reality though, they will likely be sending you Grade-C weed that's just one notch above brick weed (if your lucky), that's assuming they even send out any real weed at all.

@Bday Prang - 40B/G isn't cheap if it's trash. You can also still get some of the Thai brick weed (which was the main type of weed available in Thailand for decades) for 3B/G, but it doesn't mean you would want to smoke it. Below is also 10B/G claiming to be 30% THC. UP2U Neh.

Thanks for the feedback. They seem to offer roughly 3 price tiers: 30-50B/G, 100B/G, and 180-210B/G. Which price range did you order from that you felt it was well below expectations? I think any 30-50B/G weed would be below a quality level I would find acceptable. But if I ordered anything in that price range from any of these low cost sellers then I would assume it is only going to be one notch above brick weed. So one needs to temper their expectations.

Above and below images are all from the online shop using “@ca08” as their LINE ID. Reviews have been mixed on the quality of most of the strains. I thought the Black Lebanon looked good, but on the other thread about low cost weed someone said: “black lebanon didn't give me anything. very light cbd effect if at all.” Fat Banana also looks OK going by the photos of the new strains, but again hard to really know.

Not sure where that photo is from, but those prices are good for Grade-B quality. The Black Lebanon photo looks like good buds, but not sure if you will receive exactly what you see in the photos. The rest of it looks like it has sugar leaves and lacks trichomes, that's why I'm calling it Grade-B. It still looks better than average brick weed though. COD doesn't guaranty you'll be happy with what you receive if you buy weed online, it only prevents making a pre-payment and not receiving anything at all.

Yes, and historically "Thai Stick" brick type weed has never had more than around 6%-8% THC.

I would be surprised too if it's 20% for only 30B/G, but that's what it says on their website.

I had a look at the promotions page. Most of it looks like Grade-B to me. But at 50B/G that's what I would expect, so that's fair for that level of quality. The only one that looked like really good quality (and value for money) on their promotions page is one called "Do si do" at 80B/G. That's a good price if it's really Grade-A and really has 27% THC. The thing though is that the first few photos of Do si do that show the buds in bulk don't look so good at all, but then the hand with the black gloves holding the individual buds looks really good. Question is, what will you get? I probably wouldn't take the chance and order more than 1 gram to see, given the inconsistency of the photos. Also, when weed sellers do promotions I ask myself why would they need to drop the price a lot if it's really top quality weed? For example, Do si do would be worth closer to 150 Baht for one gram if it's really a 27% THC indica dominant strain. What I suspect is that most of the lower price, but higher quality weed you see for sale in Thailand has been in stock for a few months, lost some of its freshness and potency and, thus the seller may be eager to get rid of it before it ages even more. Nothing wrong with buying one gram of it though to see. If it isn't high quality then all you have lost is 80 Baht and then you know.

There is brick weed for sale on PrikPot that comes in 50 gram bricks and it says it's 20% THC, hybrid, sativa dominant, greenhouse grown, etc. They call it Foi Thong, which appears to be a Thai Stick strain.

Thanks for that info. Most of what I get (that I consider the higher quality, Grade-A stuff) is usually tightly packed buds, not too hard when you squeeze them, and sometimes sticky or has a lot of resin, depending on the strain. That's what I've found usually has the most THC. I have gotten some stuff that doesn't have as many terpenes though, the buds are softer and pull apart more easily, and it's generally drier and not sticky. Usually that stuff doesn't seem like it has as much THC when I vape it. It seems more like Grade-B than Grade-A, but it still does the job reasonably well. I've also had some stuff that looks a bit like Grade-B, with some sugar leaf bits woven in with the buds, but still seems to have strong THC. So you can't always judge by appearance I've realized. Just going by the photo you posted that looks a bit like some of the Grade-B stuff I've gotten in the past with the lower THC levels. I can see traces of leaves mixed in and the buds don't look like a dense cluster of little sticky nuggets. As I said though, I've also had some high THC stuff that didn't look as good or smell as strong as some of the Grade-A stuff, so I stopped judging solely by appearance and smell. 👍🏼

Earlier I vaped some of the 5 herb blend I made. Has a total relaxing Indica feel and lots of flavor. The 5 strains were mostly Indica dominant hybrids but some of them are also supposed to be happy and uplifting. I really like the vibe of this mix. I can see going on with it for a while.

That's interesting and makes sense why you do it for those buds. I have never had any high THC buds though with low taste and smell. Are these high THC buds very dense, or at least have a lot of resin and/or sticky or are they just dry?

Today I had a bit of shake left over in a few different bags from a few different strains. So I mixed it all together and put it into the dry herb vape. It was far more interesting than what I was expecting. So many different flavors and turpenes coming out of the vape at once. But it also gave me a really nice buzz for a few hours. Then I had a thought; why don't I intentionally mix 5 of my favorite strains together? So I made my own party mix. I took about 1/3 of a gram of each of the 5 as an experiment and mixed them together inside a plastic medicine bottle, which gave me 1.5 grams in total of mixed ground up flower. I haven't vaped it yet, but I'm really excited to see what this feels like tomorrow. Maybe it becomes my new favorite? I wonder if mixing strains together like this a common thing and if people do it often. 👀

If anyone really believes they don't know how to grow top quality herb in Thailand then you should watch the video below of this professional growing operation:

It is definitely the amount. Try doing any amount under 50,000. It will always arrive in seconds. The delay on larger amounts might have to do with anti money laundering controls in Thailand, but I'm not sure.

Are you referring to P.E.D.420? I looked them up on Google Maps. That place is nearly a 40KM drive from the Bangkok City center and the prices shown look similar to the tourist pricing in the Sukhumvit area. I wouldn't drive that far or pay that much, but that's just me.

Also, forget about all this talk about strains and Sativa/Indica, none of that really matters. What I look for when I'm buying bud is dense, tight looking buds with no sugar leaves protruding, very strong terpenes, not overly dry, and a bit sticky with some resin is always good. If look closely at the bud and see a few white spots which looks like tiny crystals then that's good too and probably indicative of a good THC profile. I've also bought a lot of buds that have a bit of black color to them. Initially I thought these were more exotic strains. Then I found out in most cases it is caused by the air conditioning in the greenhouses where it is being grown in Thailand. It doesn't seem to affect the smoke quality, but it isn't some natural flower coloring. So now I tend to stay away from most of these darker colored buds unless they are a real purple colored strain.

Anyone who can't get really high smoking the high quality reefer now available in Thailand is either being sold some bunk dope or somehow isn't smoking it right. 1-2 good pulls on the good stuff should give you some solid happy feeling couch lock that lasts for 1-2 hours. If your not getting that with 20%+ THC weed then something is really wrong.

Just get your medical certificate sorted which says you need cannabis to treat your erectile dysfunction and you’ll be good to go. Then you will be safely swimming in all the 30% THC postally delivered buds you need. 👍🏼

Buds with more than 0.2% THC are not illegal now and won't become illegal. They will only be prohibited for recreational use and restricted to medical use, which is technically the case already. Distribution via post and other domestic shipping methods may not be affected much because the carriers likely won't be required to determine the intended use of the substance. If the substance isn't an illegal or controlled substance then there may not be any restrictions added to transport methods. If the people shipping the stuff out are legally licensed sellers then they should continue to be able to ship it legally. Seemingly shops will be the ones required to only sell to people with a medical certificate. Even that seems tricky to enforce though. The shop owners are often young people who are just retailers who aren't going to be expected to really check the authenticity of people's paperwork. Only the government can effectively do that.

Here is how I see it. 30% of the existing shops will eventually close down. The ones that survive then pick up the business from the failed shops and will then be able to pay the police even more so that they continue to turn a blind eye to sales for recreational use. In addition, the police will generally leave the end users alone and continue to get their payoffs from the shops. If the police go after individual users then it hurts the shops and, thus everyone in the food chain loses. The only thing they will likely clamp down on is people selling it on the street and smoking in the streets, which is already subject to a 25,000 Baht fine under the current law, but not enforced. But smoking in indoor shops and other designated areas will most likely remain permissible. Shops may be required to create a system to prevent the smoke from wafting out into the streets, but something else that will likely be loosely enforced.

Yes, you can always transfer amounts above 50K to accounts at SCB, BBL, and TFB, but it won't ever arrive in seconds.

Ban it all. Such horrible poison.

It also depends on the amount of the transfer being sent to you from Wise. If you want it to arrive in your Thai account in seconds then the transfer amount must always be no more than 49,990 Baht. Anything over that amount often takes 1-2 days (sometimes longer if sent on a Thursday or Friday or over weekend) to complete the Wise transfer. So if you send an amount under 50,000 Baht, and it arrives in seconds, then it's most certainly come from a local partner bank. In those instances I don't see how the incoming transfer can ever be labeled as TT or FTT by your bank when the funds were physically transferred to your Thai account from another local bank.

Since all of these topics are really just anecdotal generalizations, let's just simplify it by saying that there are flowers now available in Thailand all day long for less than 100 Baht a gram (when buying in bulk) which will get you quite high for 2-3 hours from only 1-2 pulls. Whether it's grown locally, imported, using local know-how, or from methods learned overseas, it really doesn't matter, nor is there any real way of really proving any of this one way or another. The whole subject is also very nuanced in the sense that every grower's means and ways is different. What's important I think for all of us is that prices here are typically 1/3 (or less) of what they are in the USA for flowers and it's all stuff that can get you very high on just 0.2 of a gram. If I compare any of the "Top Shelf" or "Exotic" strains being sold now in Thailand to what I had access to in the eighties, it's night and day. Back then it was mostly harsh tasting brick weed from Mexico, Columbia or Afghanistan. Super dry, full of seeds and twigs, terpenes didn't even exist, and you were looking at an average of 2% THC. So to say any of the stuff available now isn't totally gangbusters is an unfair criticism. Now people split hairs over THC content being 25% or 28%. When the weed is so strong to the point that 1-2 pulls is all you need then we are really just debating over semantics. 😉