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The ThongLor cops are telling vans that as long as they have a rented space for the van, it’s fine.

Remember all those heavy fines for all these infractions they introduced on 1 September - - and then announced they would not enforce them until 'people were used to them'. It just goes around and around...

A fairly strong pointer to the reality that the so-called Supreme Court is a cabal of bought and paid for lackeys of the salim elite. In most countries they wouldn't get through the door of a court even as janitors. But, I think most Thais know that. How's the Toyota case coming along?

When will these authoritarian clowns grasp that "long jail terms" don't work. I guess when the PM is a self-serving imbecile there is not a lot of room to move.

It would substantially more credible if the junta allowed these people to elect their own governor rather than be appointed by a cabal of old Buddhist men in Bangkok.

Confusing ganja with opium indicates a reality disconnect of biblical proportions.

That's just it. If you read the text, little has changed. You can't advertise online. No problem. Fixed premises - the streets are full of fixed dispensaries, all licensed. You have never been able to smoke it in public. It's at best window dressing to try to satisfy a small number of self serving politicians and grumbling seniors who, indefensibly, would rather see young people locked up to satisfy their own prejudices. I don't smoke the stuff and hate the smell but I dislike the self serving hypocrisy and sheer evil on display even more.

Thankfully you are out of touch with planet earth. Germany legalised this week and the US Federal Govt is in the final stages. Whether this goes through now or not it eventually will. Thailand can't afford to be so far out of touch with the tourist market it is trying to attract. Ok, back in your cave ...

I don't like the smell either but understand that substantially more harm is done to society by criminalising countless people for partaking in what has been shown time and time again to be a relatively harmless plant. Destroying lives for no good reason and reopening the door to police corruption. Worse than that are the number of people and politicians attacking this plant for what are at best purely selfish reasons. Move Forward are the worst offenders here, putting aside their supposedly high principles for political advantage. PT and the Democrats wouldn't know high principles if they bit them on the <deleted>.

Wait! So you have evidence that people were no getting stoned and driving cars before? Now is the time for you to share it with these esteemed medical professionals and self serving political opportunists. I would gave thought that drinking booze or tossing down yaba pills before driving might have been the bigger risk, but you clearly have other evidence about that considering your outrage about ganja. PS, it’s illegal to smoke it and drive. The issue is enforcement as always in Thailand.

The government will need to go to their bosses at Boonrawd and Thai Bev as they did when the the people of Thailand asked that the brewing laws be changed. It was the duopoly that made the decision to say no to the people of Thailand and passed on the instruction to Prayut, their servant. Much as they had done when they blocked online sales and had him introduce advertising bans that they could bypass with their water brands.

And a primary reason why democracy is not allowed to grow here. Monopolies of just about every major business and of power, all centred around the same tiny number of people who would and have done just about anything they can to destroy any threats to their immense power. It's just evil. Fortunately, some brewing alternatives exist in the bigger cities and hopefully will continue to grow.

No surprise really, those big booze companies have deep pockets and the current political leadership have never had any problem satisfying their own deeply corrupt urges. A few more legislators and those above them are no doubt a little more unusually wealthy than they were a few weeks back.

These parties should probably be dissolved for being stuck in the 1930s.

I notice he didn't include the word 'honest' in that plea.

As long as they wear a mask each they will be safe.

I guess this will go into the same "it's the law but we won't enforce it until sometime in the future after people get used to it" box as the other recent tougher traffic laws. Meanwhile two cops sat and watched while I was almost run down by a driver not stopping on a crossing a few days back.

Agony and loss used as a shameless photo op by this scoundrel.

And those are only the ones that make the media. But the blame flows all the way to the top and back. Zero attempt has been made to address police corruption by successive govts. The current nitwit said it was something he was going to urgently take on within days of him not becoming PM in 2014. Eight years on they are worse than ever, in part because he likes to keep them tame so he can stomp on dissent. It's not just the cops who are to blame, the poison is also above.

Take a step off the main streets and the local price drops substantially.

The mass masking thing seems to be mostly Bangkok and even here it's selective. I was at the flower markets two days back and there were few masks. Got the MRT afterwards and there were some triple masked people. Got a taxi from the BTS and he was unmasked.

Spend a few minutes looking at things like the CDC's website. I suspect they are somewhat more credible than your "I believe.." The idea that Covid was transmittable from viruses on surfaces was tossed around in early to mid 2020 but was shown to be wrong. In April 2021 it was stated by the CDC that the liklihood of surface transmission was incredibly low and they then clarified that in print saying there was no known instance of surface transmission. This was repeated in March this year. Again, you clearly have data the planet has missed. Can you share it?

Clearly you have substantial data that health authorities the world over missed. It’s an airborne disease and European, Australian and US health authorities have all said there is no evidence of any surface transmission. None. They say ‘extremely low’ to cover the possibility one might turn up, but to date, none have. That it can be traced in faeces does not mean it can be transmitted via that. That’s another thing altogether.

If it is, it’s certainly not causing major public health issues as the hospitalisation and death rates published daily until Sunday are evidence. Bad air, road deaths, polluted water and dengue are vastly bigger problems and yet none attract much attention from these concerned health authorities.

And here we have a so called medical professional telling people that you need to clean surfaces to prevent it. According to the CAC there is no evidence anyone has ever caught it from a surface, it’s airborne. But we are in a country where they were disinfecting the streams, forests and beaches, and, as recently as a couple of months ago washing vast quantities of noxious chemicals down public roads.