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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.