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I agree. I've had several of them here and it's really hard to get the feeling of the season when everyone else treats it as a normal day.

It's the psych drugs they take that cause so many problems. There's one young woman in our family who takes them and it's like they hollowed her out and she doesn't have any more feminine charms. Sometimes she sits and spaces out, other times she fantasizes about going to the Trump Hotel in Vegas and taking a dump in the hall.

Some of the Muslim communities have this real bad.

This is from yesterday on the IQAir app. Look how China in the upper right has terrible air quality and then, following the winds, there is a stream of yellow moderately-bad air all the way to Bangkok.

One of my Thai wife's relatives is like that. We took him to an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet and it was a total waste of money. He only ate noodles. It was just too far out of his element for him to be comfortable.

Imagine being a potential tourist and reading an article like this. Most are just going to stay away.

Could this be a holdover from something Thaksin and his daughter set in motion?

That's what's so strange - no one seems to be taking credit for it, at least in the English language media. How can a change like this suddenly happen? Did parliament even have to vote on this, or was it totally up to the alcohol control board?

There seems to be a strain of a very punitive mentality in a small segment of Thai society. The rhetoric associated with making cannabis illegal again crossed the line into petty nastiness as well.

When I left Vietnam I felt positive about the youth there and where things were going for them. It's not a feeling I've gotten in the US, or even that much in Thailand.

Do you have a link? I did a search on cannabis stores in Lampang but didn't find anything.

I've gotten way more willing to throw away weed since moving to Thailand. If anything seems even the slightest bit off then I immediately get rid of all of it. Just accept it as part of the cost.

I've never noticed anything when using CBD oil, but you can still buy a bottle and give it a shot. Various places in Bangkok and Thailand sell thc edibles. This might give you some temporary pain relief. The problem is the edibles have a lot of sugar and carbs. I once found a traditional Thai medicine place that sold thc in liquid form. It came with a dropper and you put it under your tongue. They are out of business now, but maybe some of those Thai traditional doctors know how to get it.

I also spent a week in Danang and loved it. I thought the food was better, and the coffee was amazingly good. We didn't stay in a "nice" hotel, but the breakfast buffet was good enough, and better than in Thailand. I do wish they would pick up more of the trash there, but it's a great place to visit.

This chart shows a huge and sharp change in the value of the baht on September 8. How could that be from ordinary market forces? I think a whole bunch of elites wanted to buy foreign currency and needed a strong baht for a while.

I don't want to live in a world where there is no drug smuggling because to get there all freedoms must be removed. Digital money with complete transparency, regular drug testing of all citizens, harsh prison sentences or even, as we see, the death penalty. Prohibition doesn't work and just spreads corruption.

This from Lazada has been working well for me: https://www.lazada.co.th/products/pdp-i5238067550-s24387875073.html

The sooner this happens, the sooner all this biometric stuff goes away, if that's how easy it is to compromise. So many places now collect it that it will get hacked and released.

This is what I've seen. Many Thais do seem smart and would do fine in the United States. Easily middle class. But it's like they get dumbed down in some way.

I'm also convinced that the air pollution from the fields is combined with toxic waste burning.

I'm on a marriage visa and this is what happened for me in Bangkok when I returned from a visit to the US - they waived the TM30. A bunch of people before me were being turned away because they didn't have one, but I'm not sure of their circumstances.

Remember when Pizza Hut used to be good?

Depends on you. I took the cat home the same day as the surgery (found her in a food market, so similar situation). They gave me antibiotics. Regarding vaccines, I think they are all a scam and so decline them. Some doctors really, really push them. If you do give in, research the type of rabies vaccine. I told one doctor I didn't want the cat to get injection-site cancer, so he offered to order a better rabies vaccine that supposedly doesn't cause this. Also try to have them inject the cat in her tail - if cancer does develop, they just need to cut off the tail. Lower leg is more problematic.

I recommend this one in Bangkok, but I realize that's a long trip: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nuBWhswPYY9ebeSD9 They charged 2,100 baht to spay my female cat. Like someone suggested, they cater more toward Thai people. They also did not do a hard sell on needless drugs like other places I've been to.

I think because either relevant government officials are being paid off i.e. selling them electricity and internet, or because China will find a way to get you back.