Spanish man arrested in Bangkok for allegedly growing marijuana plants

[jvs]

14 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

The biggest waste of law enforcement imaginable. Legalize pot. Prosecution of this is inane and draconian. 

Ok, a post i can relate to,even the op is not about legalizing there are some posters who are talking about it.

Some talk about the same old blah blah.Fair enough,just remember this ,if it is legalized no one says you have to use it.

Let the people decide for themselves,i don't care what anybody uses as long as they do not endanger or

offend other people.

Do what ever you want to do behind closed doors and everybody can be happy!

[brianthainess]

3 hours ago, pineapple01 said:

Listening to my friends talking such cobblers and laughing at Sweet <deleted>/A put me of drugs for life.

I know many like this that don't use drugs, its enough to make one start. 

[nauseus]

20 hours ago, CLW said:

Wondering how the house owner knew there were plants inside.

Spare key and spying at his tenants?

It says: the marijuana plants were detected - maybe a smoke detector? ????

[brianthainess]

2 minutes ago, jvs said:

Do what ever you want to do behind closed doors and everybody can be happy!

I do agree but To smoke indoors is now also illegal. 

[Pedrogaz]

20 hours ago, CLW said:

Where are you living? 19th century?

Cannabis hardly considered a drug nowadays with less proven consequences as alcohol or tabacco.

You know all you need to by looking at his avatar.

[Pedrogaz]

I have a question. I have been told each family can grow up to 5 cannabis plants. Is this true or a lie. Does anybody really know?

[raccos21]

This means the house is owned by the Spanish guy and he informed the police that he grew the narcotic plants! It doesn’t really make sense!????????????

[darrendsd]

20 hours ago, bobbin said:

4 paragraphs with a total of 5 sentences, and both of the above posters missed this...

 

"The house was owned by a Spanish man aged 42, who was charged with producing the narcotic."

 

Issues of "ownership" aside.

Oh come on you don't expect TV Posters to actually read articles before posting do you? ????

[Andrew65]

The Spaniard grew suspicious after 10 months when his plants still showed no signs of producing any tomatoes!????

[recom273]

20 hours ago, BritManToo said:

It still takes longer than 3 months to grow ....... 

What a huge waste of everyone’s time. When is a plant a drug? At 3 months they look like pretty ornamental plants, the real story is probably that the guy refuses to cough up the money to make the problem disappear. 

[Andrew65]

1 hour ago, Denim said:

 

Yep , ban alcohol sales and don't allow bars to re open. After all , alcohol is the most abused drug on the planet and leads to many deaths and much aggressive behavior.  I'm sure you will agree that places like Pattaya would be better off without bars and drunks.

Alcohol (wine) symbolises the blood of Christ in church, so it must be OK!????

(It's also the 'Devil's brew'!)????

(Pattaya probably wouldn't exist, as it is, without bars & drunks).

[chocboss]

21 hours ago, steven100 said:

good job by the police.  jail & deport. drug user/seller/pusher.

Steven, some of the <deleted> you put on here make my self and friends smile so you have done some good, but we are going to call you from now on squeaky because you squeaky clean lol

[PETERTHEEATER]

20 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Narcotic??? Is'nt it a herb?

Yeah, it's  the worst coriander I have ever tasted.

[Nanaplaza666]

Alledgedly growing ???? Alledgedly found ?????? They found the plants and the plants were growing , i don't understand the alledgedly part of this story did they find the plants or not and were they growing or not ??????? So it might not have happened at all ???????? 

[metisdead]

Inflammatory posts, troll posts and the replies have been removed. 

[salsajapan]

what's wrong ? we all do it !!!

 

 

[salsajapan]

21 hours ago, steven100 said:

good job by the police.  jail & deport. drug user/seller/pusher.

 

and you don't feel ridiculous right ?

you should be banned for posting this.

[salsajapan]

20 hours ago, steven100 said:

right, I know weed is not such a hard drug, anyway each person can do his own thing, if someone likes drugs then that's their prerogative, i don't so that's just me.  Everyone has their own opinion on things. 

 

But some have a ridiculous one.

 

[wazzupnow]

21 hours ago, CLW said:

Wondering how the house owner knew there were plants inside.

Spare key and spying at his tenants?

got an argument about how to split profit??

[hotchilli]

21 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Don't think he would have smoked, used or pushed anything if it was only 3 months of growing.

Just pushed his luck... 

[Pancho]

Allegedly growing......... had they stopped growing?

 

It must be the Thai water, it can change cannabis into a narcotic.

 

Pesky details.

[off road pat]

22 hours ago, CLW said:

Where are you living? 19th century?

Cannabis hardly considered a drug nowadays with less proven consequences as alcohol or tabacco.

technically even aspirin is a drug !

[Patts]

4 hours ago, lookchine said:

before applauding let's be consistent, alcohol makes people aggressive and kills thousands of people every year and it is allowed, cannabis heals and makes people less aggressive and it is prohibited.  the police do their job and obey orders but maybe some retrograde law should be reviewed by our elites, as is currently done in many countries

Cannabis causes serious mental health issues and makes people behave erratically. It may not have killed people but it can certainly be implicated in suicides. To claim that it heals is utter nonsense and there is zero medical evidence to support this, the most that can be claimed is that it provides therapeutic relieve for some conditions such as MS. 

[BritManToo]

6 minutes ago, Patts said:

Cannabis causes serious mental health issues and makes people behave erratically.

Sounds like every Thai I met, they must all be smoking.

[CraigInBangkok]

1 minute ago, Patts said:

Cannabis causes serious mental health issues and makes people behave erratically. It may not have killed people but it can certainly be implicated in suicides. To claim that it heals is utter nonsense and there is zero medical evidence to support this, the most that can be claimed is that it provides therapeutic relieve for some conditions such as MS. 

Another expert???? ..... I would find it much more likely that anyone who has serious mental issues or behaves erratically was destined to be this way before they met cannabis.

Don't know about your evidence but I can tell you that it'll get rid of my migraines and can make me sleep with out the use of processed chemicals and thats good enough for me.

[Patts]

1 minute ago, CraigInBangkok said:

Another expert???? ..... I would find it much more likely that anyone who has serious mental issues or behaves erratically was destined to be this way before they met cannabis.

Don't know about your evidence but I can tell you that it'll get rid of my migraines and can make me sleep with out the use of processed chemicals and thats good enough for me.

Every person I know who regularly smokes acts erratically and several have ended up in mental health wards as a result of cannabis. As I said before "it provides therapeutic relieve for some conditions" that does not make it a cure. 

[CraigInBangkok]

5 minutes ago, Patts said:

Every person I know who regularly smokes acts erratically and several have ended up in mental health wards as a result of cannabis. As I said before "it provides therapeutic relieve for some conditions" that does not make it a cure. 

I have met hundreds of very regualar users over the years and don't know of any that ended up in a mental ward for any reasons. 

[George Aylesham]

22 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

NOUN

1. a drug or other substance that affects mood or behaviour and is consumed for non-medical purposes, especially one sold illegally.

   "cultivation of a plant used to make a popular local narcotic"

   synonyms:

   drugs · narcotics · addictive drugs · recreational drugs · illegal drugs · cannabis · heroin

ADJECTIVE

1. relating to or denoting narcotics or illegal drugs.

   "consumption of narcotic substances"

Why is alcohol missing from the above list? Certainly far more harmful than cannabis.

[BritManToo]

4 hours ago, robbioff said:

Not really. Growers licence, up to 5 plants 1000 baht (per year). Simples!

My Thai misses doesn't even bother to tax and insure her m/c.

Don't think she's all that different to all the other Thais.

[GAZZPA]

1 hour ago, salsajapan said:

 

and you don't feel ridiculous right ?

you should be banned for posting this.

why? he broke the law. Isn't the poster entitled to his opinion on drugs? tired of pro cannabis users calling everyone else "stupid" or "behind the times" or "uneducated", they use silly arguments about comparisons to cigarettes or aclohol and then quote the amazing medicinal benefits which they probably understand nothing about. Also nobody would argue the prescribed use as a medication if it is proved to have benefits, that's not really what we are talking about, it's people wanting the freedom to smoke it for recreational use, the medicinal i just a silly argument. Well I have, in my life seen abuse of alcohol, cigarettes and cannabis,,, all had a terrible effect on the individuals. Cannabis I have seen dopey appearance, problems with memory, careless attitude, paranoia, poor skin etc.. Yes i am sure not everyone abuses it the same as alcohol however I don't want to see it legalised for recreational use and there are many others who think the same, well if you do think this way good for you. If you think it should be legalised then fine, you can have that opinion but don't attack me aggressively because I think differently. Right now it is illegal in Thailand and this guy broke the law, he should be punished accordingly. If you want to live a life where you grow it and deal it go somewhere where it is legal, until then respect the law.