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It’s an oft-repeated myth that Thailand only counts deaths at the scene of the accident. The stats are bad enough and shameful without that sort of fact-free exaggeration.

Meanwhile, god knows how many innocent people rot in jail still because they objected to his ugly upending of this country.

It probably will as it’s tied to the FTA Thailand has been struggling to get and put a lot of time and energy into for years.

That's just an oft-repeated myth. Thailand includes deaths after the accident like most other countries (you can find multiple sources confirmed that via Google) but it doesn't excuse the appalling lack of enforcement and governance that kills and maims some 200k a year. Just now I was almost hit by a car running a red light on a crossing with a cop watching. The country needs to have a will to fix this but right now that's totally absent and we have a nation of appalling drivers who, if polls are to be believed, think they drive well.

No, this thread is about weed, already either decriminalised or defacto decriminalised in much of the the world seemingly without much problem.

Bear in mind too, that this government has not to date managed to pass anything. Even the gay marriage act is still not on the books. They are, by any reasonable barometer, totally useless. Still, that's why the junta installed them, so they'd not change anything. And if they do pull this off, the only beneficiaries will be corrupt cops and the people with undue influence who will own the "medical" weed business. As always in LOS, follow the corruption.

It doesn’t matter how long I’m here i never fail to be amazed by how evil, broken and corrupt the elite and their mafia courts are.

And countless young Thais who will be subject to corrupt police, have their lives ruined by jail and legal records, all because of some nutty populist drive by Thaksin and his somewhat incompetent and insubstantial Public Health Minister lacky (who now wants to also start a "drug war"). This is about Thaksin wanting to somehow revive his PT party, one struggling in the polls badly, and letting the cops have their bribes back. Meanwhile around the world deregulation continues with the USA moving ganja from Class 3 to Class 1 nationwide and Germany decriminalising. What do these countries know that has eluded Thailand's not-exactly world-standard scientists? Why are the real public health emergencies being looked at instead: killer air quality and hundreds of thousands maimed or killed needlessly on the roads every year? I don't smoke the stuff and dislike the smell but the hypocrisy, corruption and plain idiocy this move to recriminalise marijuana shows appalls me.

The CC invents the law as their masters wish. They are not a judicial body as most countries know one, they are closer to old-fashioned mafia enforcers. Much like the EC.

And still silence from this useless Junta appointed government. The companies that instruct the farmers to burn are literally too close to the power structure to be threatened. People die as a result and nobody in the cabinet or govt cares. Only "good people" matter in Thailand.

I don't think that's possible but he's Theresa May, Bojo or Liz Truss level incompetent. It's hard to reach that level.

For decades I’ve been saying myself,”it’s getting better” but it never does. A broken feudal kleptocracy where the poor get poorer and the rich get vastly richer. And if the people complain they beat and shoot them. Possibly the dimmest thing I’ve ever read on the internet.

Add to that ancient cumbersome security machinery and processing procedures. Most airports don't ask you to remove shoes and belts anymore, and many don't want computers taken out. Instead of fiddling about buying useless submarines maybe the money would be better spent on security at the airport. I still think Swampy is a quantum leap ahead of grubby old KLIA. Rude staff, broken everything and shabby facilities.

He doesn't have a boss, he is the boss, hence why they have actively tried to kill the craft beer industry which any fool could see would be a money maker for the country as a whole (see Vietnam and Singapore) and actually offer up some "soft power" to send around the world.

Alternatively the government could just instruct the police to enforce traffic laws. They won’t.

He did used to go into the street from time to time to get opinions but that scene in The Darkest Hour is fiction.

Have you ever spoken to a Thai? Do you read Thai media? Clearly neither of those.

I'm always amused how a Thai politician can use the title Justice Minister with a straight face given that they are inevitably as crooked as you can get, overseeing a strata of crooks and corruption from the bottom to the top.

This gets stated over and over but is untrue. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/22/12467 For example tells us the 66.1% of the recorded road toll is at the scene. The numbers are horrific and indefensible enough without mis-truth clouding them. This new government (if it can be called one) is making all sorts of improve-Thailand noises but horrors like this are off their collective radar. They simply don’t care because most of those dying are not deemed valuable to this feudal society.

They've had decades to address the slaughter of tens of thousands on the roads every year and nothing has been done. Why start now?

Of course no mention of removing the totally corrupt restrictions on local craft brewers who could be contributing significant money to the country if governments didn't block them to keep the duopoly happy.

What's the bet it will still be target a pedestrian on every crossing in Thailand. Has a single person been charged with not stopping on a crossing the year it's a 4000B fine? Of course not.

International media has been full of poisonous air stories for a couple of years now, and it seems unlikely this half-baked government, controlled by forces we can't discuss and the major corporations that define their 'policies' will do much about it. In most places on planet Earth, it would be a national disaster, but here, they form a committee and pass the odd law nobody enforces while the appointed PM hangs out in Tokyo and California. Who, in their right mind, would bring their loved ones to Thailand?

You've been moving in the wrong circles. Pretty much everyone I've spoken to under a certain age in Europe, UK and, yes, Singapore has expressed interest in the weed. Young Singaporeans come for two weeks - one to smoke and one to cleanse the blood. Ganja tourism is pretty big now and there are tours that specifically target it.

As a former resident of Bali, alcohol is vastly more expensive in Indonesia. Wine is nuts.