16 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Which hotel.......? ????

The one you can never leave.

13 hours ago, natway09 said:

Yes, not a very nice taste, I drink every night.

Only real way is the dried flower cigi' papers & a lighter 

why drink then?

17 minutes ago, TacoKhun said:

why drink then?

 

If these cannabis drinks lite have no effect then it's pointless to drink them.....Just drink a bubble tea or a coffee at half the cost.....

 

But like I said before they must be putting a little extra zing in the drinks or the whole business model will be a 100% failure...Just pack up all the stands now because its over....

48 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

If these cannabis drinks lite have no effect then it's pointless to drink them.....Just drink a bubble tea or a coffee at half the cost.....

It's aimed at the crazies who want herbal drinks.

They don't want coffee, or bubble tea ........ they want a drink which will cure their cancer.

21 hours ago, HarrySeaman said:

I fondly remember visiting Happy Herb's Pizza on Sisowath Quay in Phnom Penh back in the early 2000's.  Good "happy" pizza and other simple Italian dishes with a side of ganja, which tastes a bit like oregano, in a small sauce bowl to add to your food.  Apparently the restaurant is still there but I'm guessing that you can't get a happy pizza or a side dish of ganja for flavoring any more.

 

I did that!  Made the mistake of ordering a large, "extra happy", ate it all by myself and then made the mistake of visiting the Tuol Sleng War Crimes Museum (before it was all cleaned up and became the Genocide Museum) right afterwards.  An hour later when all the THC kicked-in, I started hallucinating while walking through the torture grounds.  All the dead were calling out to me and it was the worst "trip" I've ever had.  Barely made it back to the hotel where I climbed into bed and clutched a pillow until morning.  Probably why I'm not into weed.

2 minutes ago, Iron Tongue said:

 

I did that!  Made the mistake of ordering a large, "extra happy", ate it all by myself and then made the mistake of visiting the Tuol Sleng War Crimes Museum (before it was all cleaned up and became the Genocide Museum) right afterwards.  An hour later when all the THC kicked-in, I started hallucinating while walking through the torture grounds.  All the dead were calling out to me and it was the worst "trip" I've ever had.  Barely made it back to the hotel where I climbed into bed and clutched a pillow until morning.  Probably why I'm not into weed.

 

It would be hard to top this for a bad trip short of being run over by a truck...

22 hours ago, HarrySeaman said:

I am sure ganja is still easily found in Cambodia but the penalties are simply too high for barangs (Cambodian for farang) if you are caught with it to make it worth while now.

Jan 2020 it was $10 a bag, available everywhere, the advice was OK to smoke in your hotel grounds or 'suitable bars' but not out in the street. I never had a problem, in fact the hotel I stayed at had a special 'smoking area' beside the pool where everyone was rolling and smoking joints with many bags of weed openly on the table.

 

Vietnam and Cambodia much the same, all the ladies selling cigarettes and rolling papers were also selling bags of cannabis.

Ridiculous to eat or drink leaves, but it's a good sign that cannabis will soon be totally legal ! Actually some places already have more to offer than just coffee or tea...

 

 

9 hours ago, elgenon said:

Where in California? Public consumption is not allowed as far as I know.

 

Have they started to sell mushrooms in Colorado yet? They are legal there.

 

You need to tell the people living in San Francisco. Smelled it regularly whilst walking around. 

On 6/5/2021 at 2:35 PM, Susco said:

I know a lady who sells it on FB, and she does a roaring trade

Yes, everybody's jumped on the bandwagon but if it doesn't contain THC, its not really cannabis.  There's people in the UK selling so called Cannabis Oil for £50 per bottle and conning people that it can cure all sorts of ailments.

 

Given that it takes over £2000 worth of pure weed to make 100g of high quality oil (a 3 month supply of Rick Simpson Oil), I can't see too many growers taking the risks they do and then selling that for £50. The £50 'medicinal' product is usually made from waste material (leaves, stalks etc.) and often contains quite a lot of the solvent used to extract it from the solids - people using it risk serious health problems.

 

Once something becomes talked about, everyone and their aunty starts selling it - and all the mugs buy it.

On 6/4/2021 at 3:47 PM, Goldpanner said:

And the word is only locals will be able to go into them soon in Amsterdam

They have been saying that for the last 10 years,still hasn`t happened.

On 6/4/2021 at 3:23 PM, champers said:

You will need to go to Amsterdam for the authentic cannabis cafe experience.

 

 

That'll sure set him back more than 100 baht.

On 6/6/2021 at 2:05 AM, Eindhoven said:

 

You need to tell the people living in San Francisco. Smelled it regularly whilst walking around. 

Because it was in your pocket? 555  Being that people smaoked before it was legal it sounds about right.

 

Many years ago I was sitting on the beach and a cop told me to move closer to the water. 

On 6/5/2021 at 3:32 PM, Leaver said:

 

Yes, strange how prostitution, whilst illegal here, is accepted, along with all the domestic human trafficking,  debt enslavement, and mental health issues and physical abuse etc that comes along with it, yet, foreigners handing over their money to a state owned casino, playing a game of chance, is a no no.   Go figure.    

 

 

Drugs and gambling negatively affects a much greater number of people, particularly the poor.

On 6/5/2021 at 3:48 PM, connda said:

They are just promoting a lie, ie, cannabis is legal.
In turn, I guarantee that when tourism eventually opens up, gullible tourists will find their vacations ending in a Thai prison for mistakenly using cannabis that they had been led to believe was perfectly legal.

"I had cannabis tea at a cafe, and ate a cannabis salad at a restaurant, I had a cannabis leave pastry at a bakery, and smoked a cannabis cigarette in a bar.  Why am I in jail???"

And that will be a legitimate question as Thailand promotes faux-cannabis then busts the unsuspecting for using the real deal.
Either legalize it or criminalize - but be freaking crystal clear about it.

Absolutely correct. 

On 6/5/2021 at 1:27 PM, HarrySeaman said:

I fondly remember visiting Happy Herb's Pizza on Sisowath Quay in Phnom Penh back in the early 2000's.  Good "happy" pizza and other simple Italian dishes with a side of ganja, which tastes a bit like oregano, in a small sauce bowl to add to your food.  Apparently the restaurant is still there but I'm guessing that you can't get a happy pizza or a side dish of ganja for flavoring any more.

 

One trip in 2003 or 2004 I went to Happy Herb's with a friend.  He ordered bread, spread the ganja from two side dishes on the bread, rolled up the pieces of bread like giant dobbies, and ate them.  A couple of hours later he had to hire two moto dops, one to carry him to his hotel and one to take his rental bike.  He couldn't even remember the name of his hotel so I had to guide them to it.

 

Historically ganja  was used as a herb for flavoring Cambodian food (and probably Thai too).  The first few years of the 2000's you could find bricks of low potency ganja at some of the street markets for that purpose.  I am sure ganja is still easily found in Cambodia but the penalties are simply too high for barangs (Cambodian for farang) if you are caught with it to make it worth while now.  It is legal and just as satisfying to buy and enjoy a good bottle of wine, and since there is no import duty for spirits in Cambodia doing this isn't even very expensive.

It was the wild west back then. Pretty much any barang run bar would have guys sitting openly smoking, still happens now but not so much. 

 

Probably some of the best times I have had were in PP in the late 90's early 00's. Lucky to have got there before the spillover from Pattaya happened. 

you can check in, but you can never leave!!

should have been here in 1969, what a time!!!

A friend gets the leaves from a local grower. Puts a few in a tea pot and drinks it for her arthritis.  She says it works great.  And for sure, we all got a small buzz.

 

There's a new place on Jomtien Beach.  And a place on Chaiyaphreuk 2, between the RR line and Suk.  On the south side.

1 minute ago, Jeffr2 said:

A friend gets the leaves from a local grower. Puts a few in a tea pot and drinks it for her arthritis.  She says it works great.  And for sure, we all got a small buzz.

 

Smoking bud is much better for your arthritis.

(so a friend tells me)

41 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Smoking bud is much better for your arthritis.

(so a friend tells me)

I think proper CBD oil is good.

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Smoking bud is much better for your arthritis.

(so a friend tells me)

 

As I still don't have arthritis or any problem but smoke weed since 20 years, does it mean that weed also prevent health problems ?

:-)

 

 

"Hemp" cafes, what a joke!

 

Still if familiarity stops the snowflake drug warrior conservatives from clutching at their pearls anytime something less dangerous than alcohol or tobbacco makes the news, then it's all good in the long run.

5 hours ago, rodknock said:

should have been here in 1969, what a time!!!

 

Yeah, EVERYTHING was always better in the past..   ????

8 minutes ago, Andy from Kent said:

 

Yeah, EVERYTHING was always better in the past..   ????

Not at all, it's just that "the past" for most here including me, was when "we were young -and roaring".

It's too bad older people don't get that, the past definitely sucked more than now, no question as far as this sexagenerian is concerned! Who would have ever thought the country that started the war on drugs, would be doing the most to end it. And BTW, the country where drugs have always been most easy to source, and in varieties that most on here have never even heard of (2CB anyone? You've been deprived!) is...

the USA!

29 minutes ago, thweshfoyo said:

 

As I still don't have arthritis or any problem but smoke weed since 20 years, does it mean that weed also prevent health problems ?

????

 

 

Weed is very good for mental health, but schitzophrenic prone persons should simply avoid it -OMG who would have thought solving THAT issue could be so easy?

Alas tho, mental health is largely dismissed worldwide as a real issue, and that's probably why we are led by psychopaths like: Putin, Modi, Xi, the RTA, Trump, Morrison, Erdogan, Bojo, the Tatmadaw, fartfeatures in Cambodia, the Veitnamese Commie Party, the Lao Commie Party, Du30, that chump in Colombia who aged like milk, and deputy lord of the idiots, Boltonarchole of Brazil! 

Chief <deleted> of world strife is (drum roll) Alexander Luka<deleted>wit of Belarus. There you go, a fairly balanced set of wetwipes that should be smoking weed, or better still, locked away in padded cells, not running nations.

9 hours ago, elgenon said:

Because it was in your pocket? 555  Being that people smaoked before it was legal it sounds about right.

 

Many years ago I was sitting on the beach and a cop told me to move closer to the water. 

 

 

Nonsensical comment. It wouldn't be alight and creating smoke if it was in my pocket.  I was a tourist walking around. As far as I knew it was legal, especially as I smelled it regularly in certain areas. Actually found it a bit annoying, since it just gave me a headache from inhaling whilst walking around.

16 minutes ago, Eindhoven said:

 

 

Nonsensical comment. It wouldn't be alight and creating smoke if it was in my pocket.  I was a tourist walking around. As far as I knew it was legal, especially as I smelled it regularly in certain areas. Actually found it a bit annoying, since it just gave me a headache from inhaling whilst walking around.

 

 

"it just gave me a headache from inhaling whilst walking around."

 

It sounds similar to "Yes I smoked but didn't inhale" defense.

1 minute ago, Andy from Kent said:

 

 

"it just gave me a headache from inhaling whilst walking around."

 

It sounds similar to "Yes I smoked but didn't inhale" defense.

 

If you are from Kent; it's defence. Don't forget your roots.

On 6/9/2021 at 9:13 AM, Yellowtail said:

 

Drugs and gambling negatively affects a much greater number of people, particularly the poor.

 

I didn't mention drugs.

 

Gambling and prostitution have always been viewed as "victimless" vices, however, to look beneath the surface, usually addiction and / or mental health issues can be found, for both.

 

So why is one deemed by the Thai government as fine, and the other not, particularly if they had the rule casinos for farang only.