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I love you Reefer Madness types spewing anti-marijuana propaganda about something you have a negative preconceived notion about. I smoked pot a lot, and I mean a lot, back in high school and college. I never bought it. It was just available in the social crowds I ran in. I've met one person in my life who actually believed they had a cannabis addiction. Everyone else I know could take it or leave it. When I left college, my free supply of cannabis was no longer around so my intake decreased to a few times a year. Cannabis isn't addictive. Cigarettes are addictive. Highly addictive. I quit smoking cigarettes in my 20s because it simply was counter to my athleticism. It was one of the most difficult things I ever did. I used pot to get through the worst of it. Then eventually as I got older, I simply stopped using cannabis for no other reason than most of the people I then hung out with weren't pot smokers. In my opinion, cigarettes should be banned. They are addictive and they kill. Cannabis? "Pfft!" So keep up the propaganda. Kick back and enjoy your whisky, tobacco, and your anti-cannabis rants. "Cannabis is addictive and is the scourge of youth! Arrrggghhh." No - it's not.

Actually, cannabis leaf shirts.

For those US forum members following this thread, if you get your SSA 7162 please post the date your received it on this thread. That will keep everyone up-to-date on status. The status now is that no one has received one yet, so we are all in the same boat. This really isn't anything to fret about unless we don't receive any forms by November. Until then. Everyone relax. Thanks!.

Just to inject a sense of sanity back into this thread, I started this, like Ubon Joe did in the past, in order to have a place where we can keep each other informed regarding the current status of our SSA 7162 forms. Instead we now have at least one member who is attempting to hijack the thread and turn it into a bi*ch-session. Mods - can you clean this thread up and take out the off-topic personal attacks on members who are following this thread for the purposes of keeping up-to-date on the status of other USA member's SSA 7162 mailings. I'd like to see this thread kept civil. Thanks.

Makes me wonder if Wise will just drop their US customers as they'll probably be required to provide us with some IRS form specifying the tax withholding each year.

If you live here, he best bet seems to be to grow your own.

I love ya BritManToo. Always the optimist who sees the silver lining in grey clouds!

Is Sharia Law next? No. Next question?

I don't think Cambodia has its sights set on Lanna.

Hydroxyzine which is a antihistamine which causes drowsiness. 25mg about 1 hour before bed is usually enough.

Surprisingly Melatonin seems to be available on Lazada again. I wasn't for quite awhile. However, it costs about twice as much as the same products on iHerb. Fyi, you need to log into to iHerb using a VPN to the US and select US as your country to see full product categories. The last time I attempted to order some on iHerb it was impossible. The only option for shipping was Flash and they would not ship it. Bottom line - we can get it again from Lazada but you'll pay a premium for it.

🐂💩 Bravo Sierra

Fyi - you can download a copy from SSA. If you don't get one by November, I'd fill a couple of these out and send them. https://www.ssa.gov/foreign/ssa7162ocrsm.pdf FYI - this PDF does not include form boxes to input your name, address, and SSN. You'll have to write those in by hand. Example: (obviously for those folks in Mexico who only have to do this every two years) Yeah, and if nothing shows up by November, they'll get multiple copies.

Very honestly. Mail transiting from the US through Suvarnabhumi and then to Lamphun takes less than 48 hours with mail that I've traced. Same with traceable mail that I send to the US from Lamphun. Thai Post is extremely efficient. When I track mail, the problems are ALWAYS with USPS. USPS: Slow, slower, and snail-slow. But? You're out there in Isaan, so maybe it is different.

Yep!

It's the fact that the Wilkes-Barr PO sits on it. Tell me that's not pre-arranged between SSA and USPS.

Yep - I know.

From experience. Registered mail seldom makes it to Wilkes-Barr by the cutoff date. They actually sit on registered mail and it doesn't get delivered. I did that twice with the same results. The mail stops in Wilkes-Barr and then sits for weeks. Now I just send it by regular first-class international - 68 THB. Never have a problem.

I have usually gotten mine my June. We're now at the end of June and I still haven't received mine yet. But it seems we're all in the same boat. Hey - maybe this is the new DOGE SSA. No one gets their SSA 7162 in Thailand this year and they cut all of our payments starting Feb 2026?

Band Of Brothers - just finished, now working on the book.

Band Of Brothers I've gone back to reading as I'm finding this forum to have steadily slid downhill.

No they are not. What a load of tosh. The shots are available in virtually all Thai government hospital. As i said, rabies in endemic here and the health authorities understand that.

Given the snottiness in this thread, my stance is simple. If you want the shots, get the shots. If you don't want the shots, don't get them. Screw it. Ya'll are adults - it's your life to live how you wish. I'd recommend them, but it's your life.

Go to a government hospital. Shots will cost around 500 per shot or less. You'll need four or five based on the protocol they decide to use. Gamma gobulin shot as well (not the troll). Whoever wrote that the shots will cost you 15,000 THB must have rabies as their brain is cooked. A lot of misinformation spewed here. I work with a lot of strays and take care of the animals at 2 local temples (shots, neutered/spayed) out of my own pocket as well as having 10 dogs, a cat, and a couple of birds of my own and find homes for those I can't take it or rehome at temples. If I can't rehome them I often will provide them with food and medicine when they come around as I work to find them homes. This includes taking care of sick animals too, so yeah - I get rabies shots. Funny cause I've been accused of being a - <gasp> - Anti-Vaxxer! <screams>. That gives you an idea of what I think about Covid and under-tested mRNA shots. But rabies vaccines are based on solid vaccine tech and have been around for a long time. I can remember when you needed to get them in the stomach - <ugh!>. Rabies is endemic here, so get the shots if you've been bit and get your animals shots as well. Most villages in Lamphun give the shots for free to pets and village strays annually.. I keep up the date on my rabies boosters ever couple of years unless I get nipped by a dog or cat I'm not familiar with. The shots are very common here but cheaper at a government clinic. They can sting. Plan on taking some Tylenol after the shot. Go get the shots. Nothing to fret over, but sooner is better than later.

The same could be asked of cigarettes and alcohol.