Thailand Seeks Tighter Cannabis Sales Controls

Better late than never ?

As soon as we get the high quality tourists back we can pursue this...

Forget it....They just don't get after years of a free-for-all open market...It's too late to start over again..

Weed smokers are well-known lax rule followers....

And they sure will not be following any new weed rules, not now, not ever....

3 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

Forget it....They just don't get after years of a free-for-all open market...It's too late to start over again..

Weed smokers are well-known lax rule followers....

And they sure will not be following any new weed rules, not now, not ever....

Thais are pretty lax as well. The perfect combination for a difficult task.

They let the cat out of the bag, weed has destroyed the (decent) tourist industry. Nothing will change unless they totally criminalize it again.

Thailand made a big mistake by not taxing weed when it was first legalized.

I doubt many non-smoking tourists care one way or another about the legalization here. There are so many different smells that one encounters walking down the streets in Asia that 'most non-smokers probably wouldn't even notice the occasional smell of the herb. You don't find a group of pot-smokers disrupting a restaurant, or staggering down the street at 3am, or starting fights with taxi drivers. That would be the drunks.

But the money lost to Thailand on sales is staggering, as marijuana sales are up all over the Kingdom. A small tax would generate huge income. Money from that could be used to install public toilets in tourist areas. THAT would improve tourism!

3 minutes ago, FolkGuitar said:

Thailand made a big mistake by not taxing weed when it was first legalized.

I doubt many non-smoking tourists care one way or another about the legalization here. There are so many different smells that one encounters walking down the streets in Asia that 'most non-smokers probably wouldn't even notice the occasional smell of the herb. You don't find a group of pot-smokers disrupting a restaurant, or staggering down the street at 3am, or starting fights with taxi drivers. That would be the drunks.

But the money lost to Thailand on sales is staggering, as marijuana sales are up all over the Kingdom. A small tax would generate huge income. Money from that could be used to install public toilets in tourist areas. THAT would improve tourism!

As a tourist I have to disagree with that a bit. The smell at a monthly condo and in the streets here and there was surprisingly strong and unpleasant. Complained at the condo - he was noisy too - and he was stopped. Suppose many will like it but many won't.

1 minute ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

As a tourist I have to disagree with that a bit. The smell at a monthly condo and in the streets here and there was surprisingly strong and unpleasant. Complained at the condo - he was noisy too - and he was stopped. Suppose many will like it but many won't.

A little respect and discretion could go a long way from smokers. There will always be inconsiderate people though.

5 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

As a tourist I have to disagree with that a bit. The smell at a monthly condo and in the streets here and there was surprisingly strong and unpleasant. Complained at the condo - he was noisy too - and he was stopped. Suppose many will like it but many won't.

Who is the 'he' to whom you refer?

So you complained about his smell, and you complained about his noise... Any other complaints?
I think some folks would complain even if they were hanged with a brand new rope!

Anutin went ahead with legalization without regulation because the Dems blew up the second reading of his Cannabis and Hemp Bill in the Prayuth government because they got scared BJT would take seats from them in the South where they were electioneering aggressively in the Dems’ base.

His sponsors needed to unload large quantities of weed on to the market and he needed to fulfill election promises to make farmers rich with cannabis. That bit didn’t happen and there has been a backlash. So Anutin needs to backtrack while keeping the advantage for his large grower soonsors.

So nothing will have changed when I get there in July! Phew!

Too late now.

Like the liberal cannabis laws in Holland attracted the dregs of society, so it has attracted them to Thailand.

No use creating all these rules and laws for cannabis shops when they will be largely ignored or overlooked by a backhander.

Pathetic

“the government has no policy to legalise recreational cannabis,”

What a superfluous statement. Doesn’t he know that cannabis is used recreationally already. The literally hundreds of retail shops selling it in Phuket, Bangkok and Koh Samui that I have seen with my own eyes, is it a bit of a give away.

There can’t be THAT many sick people needing it for medicinal purposes.

Within a 4km radius of where I am in Phuket there are more cannabis shops than tattoo parlors and massage shops. And that’s saying something!

4 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Thailand’s Public Health Minister Phatthana Phromphat told the Senate on Monday, that the government has no policy to legalise recreational cannabis, warning that anyone caught illegally selling cannabis or allowing others to smoke it can be arrested immediately

So why is it so freely available in thousands of weed shops to customers who walk in with out a prescription?

2 hours ago, henryford1958 said:

They let the cat out of the bag, weed has destroyed the (decent) tourist industry. Nothing will change unless they totally criminalize it again.

There are none so blind as those that continue to drink the kool-aid.... Legalising weed to give the Thai economy the kickstart it needed coming out of Covid in 2022... Other than a few dinosaurs like you who really have no comprehension of the reality of weed that decision by the government has been a mega success.... Just let me remind you... Never in the history of mankind has so much money been spent trying to find something wrong with a plant... Nothing has been found to be wrong with the plant

2 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

Thailand made a big mistake by not taxing weed when it was first legalized.

I doubt many non-smoking tourists care one way or another about the legalization here. There are so many different smells that one encounters walking down the streets in Asia that 'most non-smokers probably wouldn't even notice the occasional smell of the herb. You don't find a group of pot-smokers disrupting a restaurant, or staggering down the street at 3am, or starting fights with taxi drivers. That would be the drunks.

But the money lost to Thailand on sales is staggering, as marijuana sales are up all over the Kingdom. A small tax would generate huge income. Money from that could be used to install public toilets in tourist areas. THAT would improve tourism!

Spot on. A lot of money could be made by taxes. Cannabis flowers are not due to VAT because it is classified as agricultural product 🤣🤣🤣

7 minutes ago, Hotchilli123 said:

So why is it so freely available in thousands of weed shops to customers who walk in with out a prescription?

And there is no prostitution in Thailand

2 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

Who is the 'he' to whom you refer?

So you complained about his smell, and you complained about his noise... Any other complaints?
I think some folks would complain even if they were hanged with a brand new rope!

He was the bloke upstairs. What I noticed was that he did in fact continue to smoke after being told not to but was much more careful about where the smoke went so you couldn't smell it inside. My issue was I would wake up in the middle of the night with an absolute stench of it. He was noisy too. Making loud phone calls to some other country.

Could be after years of smoking it doesn't bother you but spare a thought for those that have no such smells since they were 20 living in share houses. Walking the streets too it was unpleasant and doesn't seem thai somehow.

3 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Forget it....They just don't get after years of a free-for-all open market...It's too late to start over again..

Weed smokers are well-known lax rule followers....

And they sure will not be following any new weed rules, not now, not ever....

I hope they like eating rice

3 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Forget it....They just don't get after years of a free-for-all open market...It's too late to start over again..

Weed smokers are well-known lax rule followers....

And they sure will not be following any new weed rules, not now, not ever....

3 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Forget it....They just don't get after years of a free-for-all open market...It's too late to start over again..

Weed smokers are well-known lax rule followers....

And they sure will not be following any new weed rules, not now, not ever....

I hope they like eating rice.

I've said it before, and will say it again..close them all... medicinal cannabis should be dispensed at hospitals...with a hospital doctors script, with strict record keeping.

2 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

Who is the 'he' to whom you refer?

So you complained about his smell, and you complained about his noise... Any other complaints?
I think some folks would complain even if they were hanged with a brand new rope!

So, you're the noisy smelly guy...

36 minutes ago, Hotchilli123 said:

So why is it so freely available in thousands of weed shops to customers who walk in with out a prescription?

Let me guess, you don't live in Thailand, if you did you'd know the answer.

3 hours ago, kimamey said:

Weed smokers and beer drinkers are well-known lax rule followers,

Missed a group; fixed it 4U😋

15 minutes ago, Aussie999 said:

I've said it before, and will say it again..

Yeah, yeah we heard you before but why you want to close them?

All, absolutely all the negative thats said about weed can be said about alcohol + so much more. People who dont drink has to endure all the smell, violence, noise, pissing, obscenities and list goes from the alcoholics. Gonna do something about it or?

Pot should be legal worldwide. It harms nobody, unless you count poor memory and lack of ambition as great offenses against the nation.

Illegal by who's definition? A corrupt government that is completely out of step with a changing world? Pot does little harm to anyone. The biggest risk is the the user will lose his ambition. Compared to alcohol the detriment to society is minuscule. The only reason why ganga is illegal in Thailand is due to the fact that legalization would make the police franchises less valuable. That is it. It ends there. This has nothing whatsoever to do with morality or character development. Quite the contrary. And to lump a pot smoker into the same category as a heroin addict is just plain old ridiculous and ignorant of the facts.

Sometimes a mistake is wearing white to a formal event in New York City after Labor Day, other times a mistake is invading Russia and advancing toward Moscow in late summer, with the advancement of winter on the horizon, and insufficient preparations for it.

This is a historic mistake on the part of this ridiculous government, the approval of ganja as a commodity was a wise thing to do, liberalization means forward progress, and now they are moving the country backwards once again. Many Thai people invested billions upon billions of baht with the presumption that they could trust the government in keeping their promises. And now they're being financially crippled, by trusting these nitwits. And all this is happening at a time when there's already so much financial hardship in the country

All I can say is, if they revert back to the old ways, I hope these politicians end up suffering a terrible fate.

Thailand and their ever changing laws. Why would anyone want to invest here anymore when they know the laws can change in a minute. Thailand has been trying to get foreign investors in all sectors and are now puzzled why it’s not happening. Like it used to happen. This is definitely not a safe haven for investors.

Originally, cannabis was legalized in Thailand for medical purpose, but the law was not enforced strictly enough...

Restaurant – between numerous cannabis outlets and a couple hemp-bars – in Chaweng Beach advertising "Free joint here", presumably you first need to buy a meal there.

PS: Don't get too excited, the offer seemed to has ended some time ago...

5 hours ago, blaze master said:

A little respect and discretion could go a long way from smokers. There will always be inconsiderate people though.

Fair comment really- there is always someone who goes a little too far and spoils it for everyone else

6 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

used to install public toilets in tourist areas.

so that pot smokers can gather in the cubicles??

The minister is embroiled in a struggle by competing groups as to who gets to benefit from this business. Cannabis is way less harmful than alcohol. Control, regulate and tax by all means, but no good reason to make access difficult or, worse, to effectively criminalise