When I renewed mine at the end of last year the estimated renewal time said 11 weeks, It took just less than 3 weeks.
This was via VFS in Chiang Mai I retained my old passport.
Seriously, do you know who Anutin is and his long term involvement with the Cannabis industry. His party is the main reason this "government" is in power.
The government and Anutin has pushed incredibly hard to get to this position so I would think it could be a legitimate question, after all this is Thailand.
And no doubt a licensing option is going to be an additional huge money maker.
"The ranking was created from an analysis of Instagram posts and the number of Google articles that contained the word ‘beautiful’ for each beach."
Must be right then.