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Waddle waddle waddle ... eat eat eat ... waddle waddle waddle ... sleep sleep sleep

Maybe a sub editor needs to take a look at the above ???? Meanwhile it's business as usual as truckloads of cash continue to be diverted by the people's servants per the structure carefully constructed over the past eight years (replacing a similar but far less efficient structure employed in the years before).

I think everybody with any grasp knows that these cretins, crooks and scumbags will do anything they can to avoid handing the country back to the people who actually own it - the people of Thailand.

Depends if somebody wants it overturned or was quite happy to throw Goofy under the wheels of the bus. The orders for the CC come from somewhere after all.

Hasn't really worked, has it. The official figures for all ATK tests show one of the highest numbers daily in the world right now, supported by the death numbers.

I wonder if he hangs out with those other tame lapdogs of the junta, the Constitutional Court? We all know they will rule in favour of Goofy getting another 8, 10 or 20 years. The decision is made for them and all they have to do is nod.

Right on time for the possible removal of the State of Emergency.

Now, that's a mighty surprise.

People have been smoking cannabis for decades in Thailand. Many, many people. If anything, it makes you slow down on the roads. Something like 80% of road deaths in TL are alcohol based. Your silence on that is deafening.

You are not stating "a fact", you are recycling horror stories that have no basis in fact. It's mildly psychologically addictive - much like TV and chocolate - and it's called CUD. The physical side of the addiction can make you irritable, cause insomnia, mild depression and not much else. So much like the way I feel today and I've not smoked for 30 years. In my industry, pretty much everyone smoked the stuff and many still do. I've known thousands who have smoked a lot of pot over the years. The number who have suffered mental illness as a result is about zero. The nonsense in the last part of your post is evidenced by the fact that vast amounts of ganja have been consumed in Thailand for decades without a mass onslaught of mental illness. Perhaps you have other evidence? Banning it will not change that. How do you feel about about the massive problem with young people drinking? I note your silence. There are serious drug issues in Thailand - opium based, meth based and so on, plus alcohol and prescription drugs – as there are worldwide, ones that destroy lives, families and communities. You, by posting such nonsense, cause the focus to be taken off those actual major problem, addictive drugs. Make a fuss about there real substance issues in society, not a largely harmless weed.

The government tried to block tourists from going to cafes but the mayor of Amsterdam overruled it locally. The biggest problems seem to have come from from outsiders and tourists.

Much like the pedestrian crossings. The red paint is mostly worn off now and the cop must be due for early release soon.

And, really, there is a better chance that I will be the next Pope than the US Congress approving this. Plus half the F-16s are unflyable thanks to poor maintenance and these require vastly more. The whole point of this was to keep the cash tap turned on. If and when the US says no the money will have already been allocated and signed off. Gone.

I suspect what we are currently seeing is a flexing of muscles to see who gets the profit here. The police, I'm sure, will be keen to be in charge of 'licensing'. The hospitals, too, smell money, hence the noise they are making. None of it is about public health of course.

It is not physically addictive, it can be mentally addictive, much like coffee or video games. Enjoy your Chang.

Bangkok has dozens, maybe hundreds, of outlets openly vending and vending responsibly in the streets. I’d imagine many of those have carefully examined the law professionally and certainly the cops don’t seem too concerned. What’s will happen? To date there have been no noted issues and the MOPH said hospitals have seen negligible impact after a handful of people got too stoned in the first couple of weeks - not a terminal condition or anywhere close to it - so once the self righteous have calmed down it will just be part of society. A fairly harmless norm that won’t see god knows how many lives destroyed by the jail system.

The committee overseeing this has already said there will be no major walk back. You are entitled to your opinion of course but I just find it disturbing that some people, tossing around questionable pieces of data, consider it fine to recriminalise literally millions of Thais who smoke this stuff and have done so before it was decriminalised (as anyone walking around with their eyes open knew) thus potentially destroying their lives, whilst they sip self-righteously on their Chang.

I guess I have the overwhelming evidence of institutional corruption in the RTP on my side. You have the fact you have made a vacuous nitwit statement on your side. Back to your morning chang.

555, you really couldn't make up this dystopian drivel if you tried. The supremely corrupt junta drums out a token corrupt cop now and then from the absolutely broken cabal (yes, mafia cabal) that is the RTP. I have a friend who is involved in international drug trade detection processes, part of Interpol. He advises police and customs forces worldwide and says Thailand is the only country in the world that shows complete disinterest in what he does and where the police actively and openly, without fear of retribution, interfere in the detection processes. This goes to the top. Discussions with Prayut's government at the highest levels have met similar total disinterest. They are all rotten to the core.

They were all smoking this stuff before, now they won't go to jail for it. But, clearly you have a ton of evidence to back your wacky claims. Maybe share it? Thailand evidence.

Yeah, there are millions of young Thais wandering the streets with crazed looks in their eyes with machetes thanks to this. Talking to a doctor friend yesterday who works at one of the big hospitals in the city and I asked if they had seen anything. Nothing he said. Zero impact. Really Brian, the 1930s are calling you back. The future says hello.