Fishfish Snakesnake

Thanks again. This is not at all my area of expertise but I thought I should do my best as I was asked, as someone familiar with life in LoS (at least in former times...)

Your prompt response is most appreciated, 'save the frogs'. I feel at a loss in this matter as I've not partaken of the magic vegetable since the early 1970s, after smoking up half the ditches in Mexico. I'm still hunting for a location where my stricken pal can reside while in Thailand (and with easy access to the killer-weed). If he continues to go downhill that would include overseeing the usual messy bodily functions, I presume, as well as serving food and fun. I was simply wondering whether any enterprising "medical tourism" operation had set up a facility based around therapeutic cannabis.

I'm a long-time orbiter of LoS, and worked for STOU from 1984 ~ 1986, while living in Rak Si (we called it "Roxy") in a nice old terribly hot wooden house run by a couple we referred to as "The Witch" and "The Zombie". Visits to the Kingdom from 1969 ... last trip there with an old pal and his family in 2024. I moved to Indonesia in 1988, and have been a Communications Worker as well as ESL "Edutainer" here. Only a lurker on the aseannow site, as I seem to have little in common with the majority of contributors. One of my old ESL teaching pals, a California stoner in his late 50s operating a surfing camp in Krui, West Lampung (Sumatra) has recently been diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer and it seems to be spreading rapidly. I suspect he's down with the "turbocancer" derived from the "safe&effective" bioweapon clotshots, but have kept my mouth shut. He's in a wheelchair and suffering, as the medicos here are miserly with painkillers. He has asked about Thailand because he knows my history, and I am thus writing to seek possible leads to a facility where he can stay stoned on grass while whiling out his remaining days (not long, I'd surmise). I hate to say "hospice" but that is essentially what it would be. No sterile hospital setting, thanks - we have plenty of those down here. Any suggestions? I know that there was a discussion of retirement homes for wealthy foreigners (wrinklies death watch), but have heard nothing about a facility that would take care of you and keep you zonked on mary-hoochy.

What a pack of drama queens. To be an A-List actor, you must be shameless. These two belligerents, rushing about and declaiming like soap opera divas, fit the pattern. Poor cops (rolling eyes, looking bored and annoyed). Happy journalists (nothing better than a spectacular domestic conflict).