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Mine keeps me informed of the current laws and has told me, "Gun-Cha coming soon. Wait little bit!" -
My take is that after it is formally legalized, even though "all parts of cannabis are legal except for those containing more than 0.2 percent" it will be next to impossible to enforce if most households are growing it for personal use. My guess is that as "possession of cannabis will no longer be an arrestable offense" the authorities aren't going to waste time trying to enforce the unenforceable. It's decriminalized. People will be able to grow it for personal use. We'll see. Sound encouraging imho.
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Over 100 elephant traps found near Thailand’s Phu Luang wildlife sanctuary
connda replied to webfact's topic in Isaan News
But they will never find the perpetrators. -
Bangkok and Northern Provinces to See Rising PM2.5 Levels
connda replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
Like every single year like clockwork as nothing is done to solve the problem. Adding the annual government hot air to the mix doesn't help. -
Where would you put your earnings?
connda replied to Neeranam's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
Save a little for those new ganja seedlings we should be able to grow soon. Oh, and funds for munchies! -
We're now two years into this mess and the "experts" still don't grasp that 'flattening the curve' is actually 'prolonging the pain.' Look at the infection curve in countries that have been infected an recovered. Regardless of what health experts tell the public to do, that curve will look almost identical. So embrace it, accept it, and then lets just get over it.
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I had a standard mesh surgery done at Maharaj Hospital CM for 18,000 THB including two nights in a private room.
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Testing is 'worldwide.' Forced incarceration into a Covid Prison is not. Most testing positive worldwide are required to isolate but are not forced by police to isolate in a high-priced Covid hospital or quarantine facilities. That seems to be relatively unique to Thailand as it's a money maker for certain connected industries. For whatever reason, this fact seems to go right over people's heads until they pop positive on a PCR and are escorted to their prison for 10 days and handed an inflated bill on the way out the door. "We didn't know!!!" Well, people should have done their due diligence before booking the vacation.
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The "Asian" I'm married to hates them.
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But that's exactly what the totality of Thailand would do if it was one of their citizens in the US or UK under similar circumstances. Westerns are routinely held to a different standard, especially by Thais.
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Until you meet the one whack-job on yaba.
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Get through all of the paperwork and Covid testing just to meet the Thai version of Freddy Kruger at Nightmare on Soi Sri Lanka Street. Way way way too many foreigners end up murdered, dead or severely injured here. If Mr. John had been a Thai in the US the talking heads would be screaming bloody (racist) murder on the World News. But here in Thailand? It's a shoulder shrug and a "Oh hum." How amazingly sad. RIP and I hope the other fellow recovers.
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And virtually all of those who come will be uttering, "We didn't know we'd be put in a Covid Prison if we tested positive," as they are enjoying their stay locked up in an expensive hospital. Especially those forcefully separated from their kids. I don't see how anyone in the right minds comes here with The Sword Of PCR-Testing dangling over their heads by a horse-hair. No less bringing their children too. <head shake>
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It's not the Test And Go part of the procedures that keeps my friends in the US from making their annual visits to Thailand. It's the Test and Incarcerate In An Expensive Covid Prison which has put the brakes on their travels. They'll show up again when No Test - Just Go returns, i.e., Old Normal - if it shows up. As long as they are jamming swabs through tourists noses and throwing them in Covid prison if they don't like the results, nobody I know is gonna come under those conditions. I wouldn't either.
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Already masked? Then you're perfectly outfitted for February in Chiang Mai and the North. N95 masks? Even better. Don't understand farang? You will when you get here.
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Just like the "Good Old Days" of Thai Stick. My interest is pretty limited. It's effective for insomnia and I've had problems with insomnia for years. Benzo's are effective too but long-term dangerous. Pot? A couple of tokes before bed and Bob's your uncle. It may make my new hobby of guitar playing more interesting too. Like someone else said, "Drunk Thais end up in brawls with machetes; stoned Thais end up forming a band."
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However - when people begin to grow their six plants per household, and I assume most will, then it will be next to impossible to enforce a .3% THC limit. Is some government official going to walk around house to house testing THC levels in plants? No. This essentially decriminalizes possession and use. Like Kratom, we'll grow some plants for personal use once it's legalized.
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They'd be difficult to distinguish from the 20% of Thai drivers who drive slow and erratically anyway. Either that or 20% of Thai drivers drive stoned right now. Pulls out from the left, places two tires on the shoulder and two tires on the lane and drives 20 kph for 2 kilometers before pulling out and pushing passing cars out of the lane. So 20% goes to 30%. Same same.
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You forgot "politicians", "predatory bankers" and "predatory corporate executives." ???? I hear what you're saying. When I apply it to myself though? Well, I'm not a psychopath or sociopath as I'm on the side of the common man always rooting them on with compassion and hopes for them to succeed and live happy fulfilling meaningful lives. Guess I must be a nihilist? That's probably true in a way, but not for the same reasons as professed by Western Nihilistic philosophy. What would look like Nihilism on the surface on my part is actually a world-view honed by Eastern philosophy and universal morality. Western Nihilism = Life has no meaning Eastern Nihilism = There is no real self It's a bit different. Easy to explain at the 100,000 foot level, difficult to comprehend.
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In my world you wouldn't feel shame at failing to score. You would feel motivated to analyze what you had done incorrectly, what you could have done to make your performance better, make a game plan to improve, and then take the steps necessary to implement your improved playing strategy. Even the best of the best never 'win' 100% of the time. But the best of the best do learn from their mistakes and improve their game which makes them the best of the best! Shame will never make you a better player. Shame is an anchor which will drag you into the depths of despair. Winners don't drown in despair - they improve their game.
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I disagree with that. Guilt (and shame) is in fact a form of psychopathy which sociopaths and psychopath use to control and manipulate their prey and victims. There in nothing more malleable then a person wallowing in guilt and shame. They can be made to do all sorts of thing right up to murder and genocide in the name of the moral narrative that they have been fed and have accepted into their lives. Nihilists could give a rip.
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Have you ever been shamed? Shamed by friends, family, society etc? No - shaming is a part of certain cultures and sub-cultures (even rather newly developed sub-cultures) that I personally was not raised in. "Shaming" is performed by people who believe they hold the moral high-ground which is in fact highly subjective. So to be 'shamed' I'd have to acquiesce to someone else's illusion of moral superiority. Now Thais? They play the shame-game because they know they can literally get away with murder with a wai and an apology. I was raised to take responsibility for my actions. That doesn't mean publicly sniveling.
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Learn to live with SARS-Covid-2 and return to Old Normal pre-2014. That would be a start.
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Netflix. The company that lost 22% of their stock value yesterday. That Netflix. Hummm. I wonder why? ???? Called ‘Midnight Asia: Eat · Dance · Dream’, the new documentary series exclusively on Netflix is about a night-time journey through six iconic Asian cities – Bangkok, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Mumbai, and Manila – and the food, art, night entertainment venues, and subcultures that help make each of them some of the world’s most fascinating metropolises. So they will be using pre-2020 archive footage to reminisce about the "good old days" as opposed to filming the current caricatures of what these New Normal cities actually are now? So it's a History documentary? ????
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