YaiJung

I have the Herbability Decarboxylator and Infusion machine that I picked up from shopee a couple months ago for around 3k baht. It is awesome! Before I would decarb in the oven and then infuse the butter/oil in a slowcooker, but it was messy and stunk the house up. This thing works like a charm. Put some ground herb in and hit a preset button. Very little smell, although not scentless. After decarbing the flower, just add the butter or oil and hit another preset button. Word of warning if searching for this machine...it tends to be misspelled on shopee and lazada, herbablility, her bability, etc. Terrible name for such a wonderful little machine! Just made a batch of salted mocha caramels yesterday with 7 grams of high grade flower. Will get about 100 or so pieces at around 10mg THC per piece. Comes out to 10-14 baht per piece including baking ingredients, depending on which flower I use...I pay 100-150 per gram for top quality, direct from farm. Edibles from a dispensary are massively marked up, plus who knows what you are actually ingesting. No thanks. Also, no thanks to vaping. Tried it many times and really wanted it to be as great as some people say, but just doesn't do it for me. High is not balanced, very racey, too much head high(anxiety), no pain killing effects. I use medicinally for nerve pain first and foremost. Smoking works best, but my lungs object. Edibles work pretty well also - I find 5-10 mg THC give me a nice mellow medicinal effect, without putting me to sleep.

Phuket maybe? Have your friend call hospitals on the mainland. Start with Surat Thani and go from there.

Holy <deleted> that that looks painful! You have my full sympathy! I had a severe case as well about 14 months ago, but it was on my face/head. Still hurts like a bitch due to the post herpetic neuralgia...constant pain 24/7...cannot rest that side of my head on a pillow or wear a hat, helmet, etc Waking up is the worst...the nightmare doesn't end. It's completely exhausting and debilitating. It has severely affected my life, to an extent I'm not comfortable talking about on a public forum. I will be getting the vaccine soon. Have covid at the moment, so I'll have to wait a litte more until my immune system gets stronger. So many people seem to be getting shingles lately. Maybe we should start a support group. Shingles is a horrific disease!

Thanks for this info!

They also might want to take down the pics on google maps showing farangs performing manual labor on the farm.

Saw this saying that there are 54 Thais held hostage, much higher number than reported previously. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjuu9p8f6

This is news now??! What's the next headline.. Couple has too many drinks and suffers a hangover from hell? Boris stubs toe and has to visit hospital? Somebody get these two a pizza asap!!

Exactly right! Moved here at 24 in the late 90's and had the time of my life. Couldn't leave the apartment without getting hit on by beautiful women. Talk about the shoe's on the other foot! Thailand has enriched my life in ways I never dreamed possible. Seen so many bitter old farang men hating on younger guys over the years. In the early 00's there was an influx of young guys and the grumpy old bastards where losing there <deleted> on the regular. Happily settled with a family and count my blessings everyday that I'm fortunate enough to be able to live in this wonderful country. This young couple will be just fine. Like Sheryl says, it's the old guys with limited funds and no insurance who are taking the real risk.

Move to Malaysia instead of Thailand over this tax issue....hahahaha....thanks for the good laugh. It's always good for a chuckle when expats in Thailand threaten to move to Malaysia. Of all the countries in the world Malaysia.....LOL

A close friend of mine was involved in a horrific tragedy that resulted in a fatality. The police obviously had some sleazeball reporters on speed dial, as they showed up within minutes. These reporters did their best to make my friend look guilty. They started 'who done it" internet discussions that would get them a lot of clicks on their <deleted>ty websites. <deleted> them. In the end he was declared innocent and released after a month or so in Thai remand prison. It was traumatic to say the least. My advice - Be very careful with Thai lawyers. Get one from a different province (Bangkok) who will be much less likely to be working with corrupt cops from Chiang Mai. Also get some Thai you can trust to go to the courthouse with you to get the real amount if bail is granted. We had a hell of a time getting to the bottom of that, with all sorts of slimeball cops/lawyers trying to get him to cough up millions of baht. Never seen anything like it and the staff at the courthouse were purposely unhelpful. In the end it was only 125k baht to get him bailed out. It was posted on the wall for public to view, but not a single person of the period of about 3 weeks would tell us this simple fact.

This whole thing is about money. There is a massive pile of money being left on the table right now by the lack of regulation. Anyone who has seen what is going on in the US in states like Illinois will know what I am talking about. Lack of regulation means lack of that sweet, sweet tax money. The way they did it here was amateur hour. So much more money to be squeezed out of it. Regulation also pushes up prices and drives the little guy out of business. Winner, winner, chicken dinner for the elites who run this country and some of whom have invested a <deleted>load only to be sitting on untold kilos of weed they can't sell, cause everyone and their brother is growing these days. btw, the cali import thing is largely a myth imo. Thais catch on quick and are growing a huge supply of top quality bud these days. It ain't rocket science.

JHC, rehab for weed?! What is next, halfway house for six months to get off coffee and cigs?

You have gotten some great replies. There are so many good areas to live in CM...mostly just depends on your lifestyle and what you like to do. I like the area around the canal rd and 121 in the south. You have multiple routes into the city with the canal rd, and the ring roads. If one way is busy you can easily take another route. To the west, mountains and nature. Also, and this is a small thing, but when driving up from bkk, you get home quicker and without having to fight traffic after a long day on the road. The southern suburbs also have more western amenities like import supermarkets and farang restaurants. Definitely rent for a year first. It is impossible to know what is really going on in your neighborhood until you have spent an extended period there. It took us three rentals to find a house we are satisfied with...had problems with bad neighbors, loud dogs, loud businesses popping up that weren't there before, etc.

If you get post herpetic neuralgia, there is no amount of money that can help you. Can seriously ruin your quality of life...indefinitely. Very hard situation to deal with and wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

I had a bad case of shingles on my head/face 3 months ago and now dealing with post herpetic neuralgia. Every morning when I wake up it feels like somebody was kicking me in the face the day before. Not fun. I'm in my late 40s and wasn't able to get the vaccine, nor did I really know how severe shingles can be. If I had known then what I know now, I would have traveled around the world and paid many thousands of dollars plus my left nut for the vaccine.