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When it comes to how it actually happens that a court is all straight white men that is incredibly naive.

Probably dawn-ish at best but hope springs eternal in a young man's heart.

Being a pedestrian in the Pattaya area can be like navigating a mine field.

Judges should reflect somewhat the society that they are judging. With a greater diversity of judge backwards justice will tend to improve and decisions better accepted by more people. Not about quotas or perfection. There are well qualified candidates from very diverse backgrounds.

Americans don't have mates except for some Mormons.

Who amongst us hasn't had a very very bad day?

Many nasty abusive comments here This guy suffered a very unfortunate accident and suffered in that sewer. Good that he was rescued but he's not out of the woods as far as the threat to his health from exposure to all that filth. The comments here reminds me of this Trinkism: Human nature -- manure Bunch of flippin' hyenas.

I have another guessy theory. Move Forward represents some pretty radical changes in Thai society. One of which it wouldn't be prudent to even mention. So what if their more traditionally conservative campaign position on cannabis was a bit of a ruse. To the reactionaries it might look like they are not all that much of a threat of progressive change look at their retro cannabis position. So a sacrificial lamb to win a much larger political goal. Just a thought.

Still reads like satire to me.

Sounds like hubris

It depends on how these clinics regulate or are forced to regulate it. For example you say you have back pain. Then what? Do they force you to buy only high profit oils and or only specific flower strains again with jacked up prices because it's a medical service? Obviously some legit medical use will still be legal but I'm cynical enough to suspect any new proposed legal controls will be mostly about milking ridiculous profits. In the current laissez-faire system free market competition is offering bargains for consumers. Also I wonder if the move forward party position to recriminalize is more about opposition to the politicians that made it legal rather than rational policy. Thailand really wants to go back to locking up people for weed possession? Really?

Her brand is cray-cray and she's sticking to her guns unless she can get her hands on some Jewish space lasers.

Normally you would think an urban youth dominant party would be more libertarian when it comes to social issues like legal weed.

So some rando cabbie is supposed to be prepared to be willing and able to hook a Polish brother up with the complete post murder package. It's so outlandish that I tend to believe it.

There is some hope that the dramatic election results will mean positive change for Thailand in general, but this is about weed only. How are people reading the results in terms of action on weed laws? My initial reaction is that the new government will want to put weed back on the narcotics list (while keeping legal medical use in some sort of regulated way). Many have invested in growing, weed shops, bong factories, big personal supplies of weed, you name it. So if it's going to go this way (recriminilization) what will it be like? Will there be a grace period for the public to adjust? For those that know how government works here, how long will it likely take to recriminilize it? What level of priority will this really be? Months, years, hopefully never? I realize many expats will keep at it if it's made illegal again. But many won't. The lure of the monkey house does not beckon. You may want to comment on that as well.

Likely many more than a few.

Didn't miss it. It wasn't enough to credibly mitigate your admiration. It's like when Trump says Putin is a brilliant man.

Definitely Bolton is no prize himself, but he knows his trump.

Theoretically it could be anti Nazis trolling modern day fascists.

You might. Normal people don't.

What it is is a visa and getting a visa for any country after you've entered the country, passed border immigration, is extraordinary by definition. Yes I am suggesting that the at the discretion of thr officer aspect is more significant with in country visas vs. in country extentions.

Because granting a VISA when you're already in the country the VISA is for is an extraordinary accommodation. It's not as easy or automatic as most people seem to think.

Of course they aren't but better that than a full fascist takeover of America's public schools.

Parents who insist on dictating every small detail of what happens in classrooms either should have never been parents or should do home schooling.

Sadly it's not only Florida. It's a national movement to try to erase LGBT people, drag queens, etc. But yes DeSantis is highly visible as a leader as he's running for president based on such culture wars issues.