jonclark

No it's does not have permanent effects. Stop peddling misinformation. The degree of impact has to do with the frequency and volume consumed. Just like tobbacco, alcohol, sugar, fat, etc. Consume any of those to a high degree and you will observe a negative impact of sorts. Cannabis is not intrinsically or inherently harmful. No one has died of a cannabis overdose. But alcohol, tobbacco, sugar ( the surging type 2 diabetes epidemic) and fat (chronic obesity, heart disease, and vascular degeneration) have all been proven without any doubt to kill. Yet we are all happy to take our kids to KFC for a bucket while stocking up on beer and Fanta at the supermarket week in week out. If you smoke a couple of joints a day it will do you less harm probably than walking from Asoke to Emporium and inhaling the fetid and toxic air pollution that Sukhumvit and our car spew out daily. The nonsense being peddled that cannabis is a gateway drug that will lead to rampant drug use amongst the youth, creating future drug addicts, health issues the collapse of civilization etc etc is just utter nonsense. It would be more healthy to not smoke. In the same way it would be more healthy to not suffer from air pollution, diabetes, and obesity. But smoking weed is not a threat to your life. Period. Just complete misinformation to even suggest it is. If people do not wish to smoke cannabis fair enough, but let those who do get on with it. Enough of this fake news. And FYI I do not smoke weed. (And I am not having a pop at you either)

Oh dear.

Oh i see, so when you say financial penalty you meant to say the car is being used for the business. Do you think it worth me telling Mr. & Mrs Somchai about Kerry, J&T and Lazada delivery services. That's how my coffee gets delivered each month? They would then be free to enjoy their holiday in their vehicle. (and save on staff time and petrol cost delivering it themselves)

Hmm a disputed motion. I had one of them a few years ago. A quick colonoscopy and a course of laxatives should fix that! No one in the house disputed my motions after that.

What do you mean when you say "the family car is out of action without incurring major financial penalties"? Do you mean like a fine or something? Can you elaborate please?

Sadly though for most people the hand doesn't give them enough to feed them. I think before they raise the minimum wage they should sort out the state pension. about 600 baht per month...for a huge number of elderly rural people that is their sole income as they were so poor without any opportunity to save for later life. So now they rely their sate pension and any money their family can send from their minimum wage jobs. Given the vast amounts of money companies make in profits I do not buy the arguement that they can't afford it. More like they don't want to afford it.

Sorry?....coach trips why wouldn't a local person just take their car if they wanted to go to another province. Both cheaper if you have a family and more convenient. Obviously coaches and buses are a vital public transport.,.but for tours in the 21st century for domestic tourism. Nope.

Thai culture is rooted deeply in superstition and the occult, The idea of having your tarot cards read at a Buddhist temple, highlights this mish-mash of cultures and superstition and its ones of the things I love about Thailand. And if it makes people happy and gives them a sense of hope, well good luck to them.. I'd rather read about these cultural oddities than the corruption, nepotism and criminality that seems to dominated the political news recently.

The democrats clearly are a bunch of utter morons. They vote in favour of one piece of legislation....and then a few months later go against their own votes. Either morons or incompetent....or most likely both.

A good host takes care of a paying guest. Especially if the paying guest contributes a huge amount to the hosts GDP.

"Dance around poles"...I would sincerely hope that each every single school child aspires to something more than that.

At what point of the manual labour process was ' the value' taught to the students. The only value here as far as I can see is to the director.

If they want to play football they can play at another school. He later added that if they wish for an education they could go to that school as well as the 7th tee was particularly tricky and all the teachers need extra practice and couldn't teach.

In fairness, he is criticizing Prayut and Prawit, two individuals....not the entire country.

Most teachers remain in school long after classes finish. It is an expectation. They don't leave after the final class's finishes. Teachers are not paid by the hour.

Changing peoples' behavior through the administration of corporal punishment does not work. If you arrive late for work should you manager / boss take you outside and give you a dam good thrashing? After all you will then think twice about turning up late for work - or would that be unacceptable and only reserved for students at school? Learning and remembering are two very different outcomes.

You maybe need to advise your Head of English that the Ministry of Education has outlaw all forms of corporal punishment in schools. So this punishment is not accepted by Thai society and your HoD is acting in a criminal manner. Its one of those odd situations - If i took a stick to a child and hit them with it in the street, no doubt people would be outraged, yet if it was done in a school building it would be accepted? I know it goes on - the recent case of the kindergarten teacher at one of the Sarases schools being a case in point earlier in the year- glad to see the parents managed to get a few kicks in at the press conference / school meeting afterwards. But that doesn't mean accepted - Teachers accept it as it rudimentary and requires minimal effort and really is a negative reflection on their poor teaching practice. But I do not believe for a second parents or Thai society in general accepts it. The parent in this case (and the Sarass case) do not accept it. Would you accept your child being physically punished by a teacher?

Likewise a teacher here for over 20 years and I disagree with everything you have written about what is accepted or not.

It seems like every doctor now wants their 5 minutes of fame and limelight after covid and are making up increasingly dramatic statements to garner any form of attention.

A child will learn fire hurts. But I think there is a clear difference between a self directed action such as you have described. And a physical punishment imposed on a child by an adult.

The teacher gave him this punishment for being late to class. It is a proven fact that physical punishment does not improve learning outcomes and that should be a teachers main concern. Punishing a student for attending a class late is the worst thing any teacher can do as the punishment, especiallu in this case probably distracted the whole class from learning and wasted many teaching and learning minutes as the teacher oversaw and focused on the delivery of the punishment. A better response would have been for the student to return at the end of the day and complete or catch up on any missed learning and thereby improve learning outcomes - which is a teachers job.

If you want a piece of land marry wisely. My wife and I of many, many years have a few plots of land dotted around Thailand and we consider ourselves the land owners (note the use of a plural pronoun please), my wife's name maybe on the title deed, but is still our land. If we divorce well tbh I would be more worried about the failure of my marriage than a few plots of land which eventually (divorce aside), will be handed down to our children when we pass. All this anger about foreigners not being able to own land. Marry wisely and for the right reasons and you can own your own plot of land.

If possible it is always good just to wait for the person to start speaking...and then just give them a full blast of the stereo down the telephone line. Didn't call back ...must be my taste in music.

The PM is completely correct. The price rise is only a few satang for a single unit. Sadly though most business and home use more than a single unit of electricity in a month. This few satang will translate into about a 15% rise your electricity bills. So if for a medium sized business, your electricity bill is 500'000 baht a month you are now paying an extra 75'000 baht in electricity per month. Which is considerably more than a few satang. I shudder to think how much the rise in electricity bills will be for the super cooled shopping malls that litter the capital and country- I am sure that this few satang increase will be clawed back from their customers in some form or another Clearly his understanding of the economics of the situation is as coherent as his leadership.

I know. It is a national discrace that people are trying to make 10 baht profit from a lottery ticket sale. Absolutely criminal. Personally I would rather see poor lottery vendors driven into dispair and poverty than support them. (Note to TVF warriors... sarcasm alert) When the wife won a very small sum from our local village vendor she gave her 500 baht...The vendor now keeps my wife's lucky numbers aside which has since yielded a couple of other minor wins.