tomster

Selling cannabis online has been very, very clearly banned - can I ask why you still do it? https://og.th/strains/orange-romulan

The issue with the import is that Thai customs are making a load of cash out of it, so are letting it through illegally. For whatever reason this backdooring is not being stopped when it could easily be, as you well know there are certain people walking around saying they have hundreds of kilos of the stuff for sale and targeting the dispensaries, who mostly lap it up (although the smarter ones finally saying no to it). I would love to see the end of the import and the focus on Thai grown weed. But for that to be viable you need to: 1. Stop the import which means cracking down on the cash cow Thai customs have found. 2. Put a very low tax, light touch framework in place and there is no way that Thailand will do that, there is too much money involved and too many political pigs at trough trying to cash in. So they will try to regulate it and fail, most people will get bored of dealing with the headache and most sales will move back to local networks at 200-300 Baht per gram (to the end user). Dispensaries will have their place in tourist areas, everybody else will buy from the local growers as and when it presents itself. This is not just a Thai thing, it's happening in every country where they decriminalize then they try to regulate.

This is just going to create a massive black market.

That is the first time I have heard of, read of, or seen anybody say that this has happened. I do not doubt that it did happen, TIT. But I know a load of people that have imported seeds with zero issues, if you use a supplier that uses stealth packaging then it is absolutely not an issue.

No you don't. The Plook Ganja app is optional until the bill that is (currently not) going through parliament is finalised and written into law. Right now you can grow however much you want for personal use, but if you want to sell it to dispensaries or commercially then the buyers may ask for "paperwork". To get said paperwork you need to register as a commercial grower on the Plook Ganja app. Or you could just print an invoice, which may or may not break the law, so best not do that.

What part of it's fine to fly with do you not get? https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/you-can-carry-weed-on-domestic-flights-airports-of-thailand/ https://thethaiger.com/guides/cannabis/can-i-take-cannabis-on-domestic-flights-in-thailand The idea that they will suddenly change the law whilst you are on route or in the air is utterly ridiculous. Cannabis flower (& Cannabis Plants) are perfectly fine to fly with - will the peeps posting otherwise please shut the F up.

The rule you are referring to is cannabis extract with THC content under 0.2% by weight - not 2%. There are zero rules in places restricting the movement of any amount of cannabis flower regardless of THC content. You just make yourself look really, really stupid by saying otherwise - you really should give up on this.

If you don't know what you are talking about - it's better to say nothing at all. https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/you-can-carry-weed-on-domestic-flights-airports-of-thailand/

Great news - this changes everything!

So far it looks like dispensaries might need to have somebody there that has been on a "Training" course, and that online sales and advertising are gone. However as this was passed as a way to show that the current government was serious about not promoting recreational use (whilst the rest of the World is slowly but surely opening up to precisely that) in reality nothing is going to change or be enforced, Thai style. You expect to see absolutely nothing change and more dispensaries to open on a daily basis in tourist areas.

Looks like the guy who wrote that article is taking no chances with second hand cannabis smoke - that is a very serious face nappy.

I only wanted to get it on buyers radars - which this thread is achieving. ????

Exactly the point of my post - to raise awareness for people that didn't know about it. I think maybe I overdid it a bit though - there is some very good import out there as well. ???? My point is that there is PGR weed out there also and as customers it's the right thing to do to push the sellers to make sure they are not buying the PGR stuff. The good import costs roughly 200-300 Baht per gram which is about what most local growers not taking the biscuit are asking for top shelf locally grown weed (wholesale), so it has it place although as I stated above I think that it would be better if people bought local first. However, much of the locally grown top shelf doesn't actually get you that stoned even though it looks and smells great. So very understandable people actively seeking out the Cali, just make sure you check with the seller first that it is PGR free. If it's rock hard that is often a sign it has PGR, plus a weird, heavy high.

The rest of your post is just ramblings to be honest, I really have no idea what you are talking about. Anyways, all the best with your investments in the cannabis industry.

Fair enough, as you say it's just opinion (until the test results prove it one way or another). I clearly stated that not all imported Cali weed is grown with PGR - obviously it's not. But there is a load of weed there grown with it, and some of that weed is finding it's way here. The people that I know that know what is and is not PGR after decades of experience in the consumption side of things, are finding more and more of it. It's here and it's not going away until the awareness is raised, as we did in the hydro industry when PGR products started appearing in 2004. It took about 2 years then nobody would use them, they were effectively killed by the consumers understanding what they are and their dangers. This thread is just meant to raise awareness of a potential problem - just by doing that the problem will likely resolve itself and is a win win for consumers and growers alike in Thailand. What isn't a good idea when faced by issues like this is to ignore them, that generally doesn't end well. ????

Agreed - which is why I don't buy outdoor weed here. The Thai's spray everything but then do you honestly think the huge scale Cali growers that are pumping out PGR weed are following integrated pest management guidlines and not just spraying the exact same chemicals the Thai's use on their outdoor crops? Glad you think consuming cancer causing weed is funny - personally I think it's a very serious issue and it has nothing to do with beer. Your beer analogy is not even comparing apples with apples, the beer here is controlled by very large corporations as you well know, not by small local brewers (although this is hopefully changing). Agreed as obviously these are the guys that have the capitol to go big straight of the gate - it was the same in the USA when the green rush started there. But there are now ten's of thousands of not so well off Thai's experimenting with trying to grow high quality weed. Well part, but not all of that, is that PGR's are used to up yields. And of course the sheer scale (hectres) of grow ops in California combined with the fact that the shipping costs of cannabis are tiny per gram mean it's possible to bring in the weed at competitive prices. Also, in California you have very low humidity levels that makes growing there much easier than here, again lowering production costs as the humidity here is very hard to deal with outdoors. You meet with a few growers then - you don't own a dispensary by any chance do you?

Is brewing beer at home legal? Asking for a friend.

When you know what to look for - it's everywhere in the dispensaries now. In general terms here is the difference visually: And here is some info on the subject although if you Google "PGR weed" there is a pretty deep rabbit hole to explore: https://leafwell.com/blog/pgr-weed/ There are now many, many dispensaries selling illegally imported Cali weed as it improves their bottom line. Prices are around 150-250 Baht per gram wholesale and there is an unlimited supply. As far as I know, no dispensaries are testing this illegally imported weed for PRG before they sell it. This testing can be done fairly easily and is standard in the USA before you can sell into a dispensary: https://www.moderncanna.com/cannabis-testing/plant-growth-regulator/ Not all imported Cali weed is grown with PGR's. But if it looks like the image above then it likely is. Ask your dispensary to show you a lab report on their import weed to make sure you not smoking PGR's - if they can't then choose a Thai grown strain. Cali weed with PGR's looks and smokes good, but will give you cancer or worse. PGR's are for ornamental plants, not for burning into human lungs or eating. Buying Thai grown weed helps support Thai and expat growers alike - in these uncertain times your money is better spent in the local economy then sent overseas.

Yep - do so - be very interesting to see how you go. Cheers.

Yeah, that sounds like some drops I have had before. I ended up doing 7 drops throughout the night and went to sleep fine. Woke up 7:30am, got the kids packed and ready for school, off they went then about 30 minutes later it hit me like a sledgehammer - horrible experience. Got kinda straight at about 6pm that night, never ever again. But that is absolutely not CBD drops, these drops are mostly probably infusions of whole flower that have THC and CBD in there, I avoid these like the plague now. Try getting a gram of that Raksa and making a small joint out of it, try a few puffs first and see how you feel, work up from there. There are some strains that have mostly CBD and just a touch of THC for the entourage effect thingy, they are the ones to focus on. Plus the CBD makes you sleep great.

I have much the same background as you, and the same problem with THC weed. However, I can smoke/consume CBD with no problem at all and it has been a game changer for my health - I love the stuff. When you say you tried CBD do you mean you smoked a CBD joint, or you had some drops? I have bought some "CBD Flower" before (just after legalisation) and it absolutely destroyed me, I was in all sorts of trouble like you describe above. So it might have been high CBD but it was also carrying quite a bit of THC. However, since then I have found a couple of strains that are fine, gentle body hit and none of the crazy head stuff. The strains are Cherry White from Lampang Farm and Raska from Golden Triangle Group - both are fine for me. Hope that helps. Cheers.

It's confusing as he should be marked as a site sponsor and isn't, for whatever reason.

HID lights work just fine here in rooms that have aircon. LED bar style lights and some quantum boards are more efficient but are always more expensive than HID. I am not saying that HID are better than LED - it is now well established that LED's are more efficient and grow great weed. However, they are the single most expensive part of an indoor grow setup and you do not need them to grow yourself some nice weed - millions of people have done so with HID and they will continue to be relevant for years to come. An almost perfect analogy for this is that just like electric cars are regarded as being the future of cars, you can't say that gas/petrol powered cars do not get the job done. The cheapest LED light that can replace a 600W HID is something like this: https://www.lazada.co.th/products/mars-hydro-led-marshydro-mars-tsw3000-led-full-spectrum-hydroponic-led-grow-light-bar-ts3000-450w-tsw-3000-i2024696569-s6536894876.html Price is around 13k normally. The link I posted is 4k with HPS and Metal Halide lamps. If you are looking to get started for as cheap as possible (in an aircon environment) then a simple 600W HID system is fine and in many cases easier to use and just as productive as LED - the final quality of weed may also be better than LED. You absolutely do not need to spend 13k on an LED light to grow great weed - the 4k HID light above is fine to get you started.

These do not need to be used with a cool tube - aircon is fine and readily available.

The vast majority of people growing under lights indoors in Thailand are using aircon - the ambient temperature here is hot not to if you want to grow premium weed.