Thailand dreams of high-end cannabis tourism after marijuana is legalised

[Moonlover]

3 hours ago, Headgame said:

Different view of the same argument.
This govt has shown time again that it like to go "step by step" as it makes any significant changes. Cannabis is a great example.

I consider this to be the end of phase 1 - made it legal.

Phase 2 will be to have designated recreational areas, e.g. Phuket where the "best" weed will be available. Promote the hell out of. Thai Sticks and the Golden Triangle. Have shops where you can select your smoke, smoke or take away your smoke, maybe a couple of cold beers and out the door. .2%??? Is that a misprint? No, the most potent weed Thailand can produce.

Then they will come. And I mean a lot will come. Legalize prostitution? That would be nice but really, who cares.

 

Quality or not, these tourists will bring their money and be prepared to spend, especially after a couple of hits on the bong.

I wonder how many people who are commenting on this thread took the trouble to read the full article in the Guardian:

 

'Authorities are also exploring the idea of a “cannabis sandbox” that would allow tourists to visit the country while recreationally using cannabis in select areas, to help create destinations synonymous with the drug, according to local media'.

 

The 'local media' referred to has the initials B.P. but as everyone knows I cannot post a link here.

[robert888d]

One of the worst decisions  Anutin has made. It lowers motivation, affects memory, damages the cortex, pregnant have babies with many defects, 17% of people become addicted,  and others go on to heroin etc, causes cancer etc.

Anutin will get even richer but Thailand will suffer in the long run.

[Caldera]

Thailand dreams... about so many things and about becoming all kinds of "hub". That's not necessarily a bad start, but the execution is almost always pish poor, so... dream on!

[Desmondo69]

4 hours ago, Headgame said:

Different view of the same argument.
This govt has shown time again that it like to go "step by step" as it makes any significant changes. Cannabis is a great example.

I consider this to be the end of phase 1 - made it legal.

Phase 2 will be to have designated recreational areas, e.g. Phuket where the "best" weed will be available. Promote the hell out of. Thai Sticks and the Golden Triangle. Have shops where you can select your smoke, smoke or take away your smoke, maybe a couple of cold beers and out the door. .2%??? Is that a misprint? No, the most potent weed Thailand can produce.

Then they will come. And I mean a lot will come. Legalize prostitution? That would be nice but really, who cares.

 

Quality or not, these tourists will bring their money and be prepared to spend, especially after a couple of hits on the bong.

Need a few thousand hits of 0.2 % garbage.  The only hit you would get is on your throat....its hemp nothing more. Period

[Burma Bill]

high-end cannabis tourism

 

Such tourists will probably end "high"!!!

[daveAustin]

What a joke. How’s about this: fully legalise marijuana, as god (????) intended, and ban dishwater Thai beer. 

[ThailandRyan]

48 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

I wonder how many people who are commenting on this thread took the trouble to read the full article in the Guardian:

 

'Authorities are also exploring the idea of a “cannabis sandbox” that would allow tourists to visit the country while recreationally using cannabis in select areas, to help create destinations synonymous with the drug, according to local media'.

 

The 'local media' referred to has the initials B.P. but as everyone knows I cannot post a link here.

Time to build a few giant tents out on the Sandbox beaches so the ones who want to get high can just go inside and hotbox it...

[Niteowl45]

8 hours ago, Maha Sarakham said:

From backpackers to potheads, the true quality tourist that will save Thailand.

meant sarcastically, but potheads are definitely much better tourists than alcoholics... sure they might drink and spend less, but they'll just enjoy their life instead of looking for fights.

 

But it's all moot anyways.... 'Cannabis' with less than -.2% THC is NOT Cannabis, it's hemp (I'm from Canada, where pot is legal as it should be in any civilized country so I know what I'm talking about)

This is typical thai stupidity...

Yeah, let's 'legalize' some hemp and call it Cannabis so we can keep the local conservative morons happy and at the same time attract a lot of tourists...

Good plan, guys, except for one teensy, weensy little detail... Nobody in the west is stupid enough to mistake hemp for Cannabis and nobody will go to smoke thie garbage (even the best weed, fully illegal of course, they have is garbage compared to BC bud from Canada, not a chance in hell anybody will go there to smoke their hemp)

 

whatever, they could do the right thing, legalize for real and get a lot more tourists (not to mention it would also benefit many locals since it is a very useful medication as well) but they prefer their <deleted> schemes that won't have any positive result...

I'm seriously debating never going back there... I've had enough of thai stupidity.

 

[Meat Pie 47]

4 hours ago, kotsak said:

Who is nutin? ????

The bricklayer

[ThailandRyan]

14 minutes ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

The bricklayer

But I though he was all huff and no puff....

[pacovl46]

What's with the we want high end this, high end that all the time? The non hi-so numbers of tourists outweigh the hi- so ones by a multitude and at the end of the day the lo-so ones in total bring in more money! You should focus on appealing to the the masses and not the small elite!!!

[rupert the bear]

here we are back in halfwit land again,unless u can get stoned guess what? it dont work,go buy no alcoholic beer at the same price as the real stuff.guess what? thats right einstein .no one wants it,what is the matter with these idiots theyll change heaven and earth the firmament itself to fit in with their particular flavour of bs,guess what? most of us have IQs that reach into double figs some even 3 unlike some leaders that believe that if u boil salty water it becomes less salty QED enough said rant over its just dumb corrupt people get extremely annoying after the thousandth time

[RocketDog]

4 hours ago, dlclark97 said:

As if there was not already a big enough problem with drunk driving now they are going to add legalized 'pot' to the mix.  Being Under the Influence whether it be alcohol or drugs, legal or not, will just magnify the road carnage issue here.

There's one in every forum like this continuing to spout the same tired rhetoric that went out when Reeder Madness became a cult classic.

Party on dude!

[VillageIdiot]

1 hour ago, robert888d said:

One of the worst decisions  Anutin has made. It lowers motivation, affects memory, damages the cortex, pregnant have babies with many defects, 17% of people become addicted,  and others go on to heroin etc, causes cancer etc.

Anutin will get even richer but Thailand will suffer in the long run.

Hear, hear!

[RocketDog]

I'm willing to be more patient than many here as the camel gently nudges his head further and further under the tent flap.

 

Imagine if you will hundreds of rai planted with California poppies, carefully camoflaging opium poppies in plain sight. They look identical after all. Opium poppies are illegal in the USA, as they are in most countries, but California ornamental poppies are not. Law enforcement spends no time inspecting flowerbeds with expensive test kits.

 

Can you imagine the armies of inspectors it would take to find the true high THC plants among the numerous hemp plants, all over Issan for instance? (This is not a rigorous metaphor since the hemp would quickly spoil the good plants.)

 

But the point is that once the plants are ubiquitous in the Kingdom, the jig is up.

 

Don't for a second think the greedy officials don't understand this. All of this talk is simply political theater. Consider their adamant statements that there is no prostitution in Thailand. Nonetheless many tourists (and their money) come here seeking and finding it. Just as many tourists would come seeking the same nominally nonexistent, nominally illegal weed. 

 

I've watched this progression in attitude, enforcement, and eventual legality transpire in a dozen states in America. Currently there is a bill in Congress to legalize recreational marijuana at the federal level now. There is simply too much money to be made by taxation.

 

This train has left the station  IMO.

[JackGats]

 

 

I expect to read news about the oncoming legalisation of marihuana in Thailand every couple of weeks for the next ten years.

[RocketDog]

55 minutes ago, Niteowl45 said:

meant sarcastically, but potheads are definitely much better tourists than alcoholics... sure they might drink and spend less, but they'll just enjoy their life instead of looking for fights.

 

But it's all moot anyways.... 'Cannabis' with less than -.2% THC is NOT Cannabis, it's hemp (I'm from Canada, where pot is legal as it should be in any civilized country so I know what I'm talking about)

This is typical thai stupidity...

Yeah, let's 'legalize' some hemp and call it Cannabis so we can keep the local conservative morons happy and at the same time attract a lot of tourists...

Good plan, guys, except for one teensy, weensy little detail... Nobody in the west is stupid enough to mistake hemp for Cannabis and nobody will go to smoke thie garbage (even the best weed, fully illegal of course, they have is garbage compared to BC bud from Canada, not a chance in hell anybody will go there to smoke their hemp)

 

whatever, they could do the right thing, legalize for real and get a lot more tourists (not to mention it would also benefit many locals since it is a very useful medication as well) but they prefer their <deleted> schemes that won't have any positive result...

I'm seriously debating never going back there... I've had enough of thai stupidity.

 

I hear you, but which brand of national stupidity would you prefer? There are over 135 varieties available after all.

 

Personally I prefer Thai stupidity because it's less invasive and more easily avoided or ignored.

 

BTW, if you are "seriously debating" yourself it may be time to put down the bud for a day or two. ????

[RocketDog]

1 hour ago, robert888d said:

One of the worst decisions  Anutin has made. It lowers motivation, affects memory, damages the cortex, pregnant have babies with many defects, 17% of people become addicted,  and others go on to heroin etc, causes cancer etc.

Anutin will get even richer but Thailand will suffer in the long run.

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Hahahahahahaaha

 

Sorry. An emoji wasn't good enough.

[sawadee1947]

Not all dreams will come true.....

But Go on dreaming Thailand ????????????

[kiwikeith]

10 hours ago, Maha Sarakham said:

From backpackers to potheads, the true quality tourist that will save Thailand.

Some will make a killing growing this <deleted> and selling it, and who is going to control the strength of this dope, the dopes that push it, Thailand will fill up with stoneheads, couple that with alcohol and driving and guns, the wild wild west will be established, crime will flourish, just imagine all the stoned idiots riding bike's around with 3 children on board, f ing stupidity at the least. 

[bkk6060]

How stupid.

Westerners are not going to fly thousands of miles to buy dead weed.  They can mostly get the real thing in their own countries one hit and you are stoned.

[overherebc]

6 hours ago, Karma80 said:

Let's open a franchise of decaffeinated coffee shops! Then we can be the hub of coffee tourism! 

And in the back room you can get your feet washed with your shoes and socks on. ????

[Harveyboy]

8 hours ago, ezzra said:

Legalise prostitution and you'll see many more men tourists flooding Thailand...

and together with legalised pot and Thailand will be a Mecca to many of all sorts...

amen to that

[connda]

A lot of ignorant people will be throw into prison. 

[Desmondo69]

6 hours ago, dlclark97 said:

As if there was not already a big enough problem with drunk driving now they are going to add legalized 'pot' to the mix.  Being Under the Influence whether it be alcohol or drugs, legal or not, will just magnify the road carnage issue here.

Who calls it "pot' these days ????????????..i wouldnt worry old timer nobody getting stoned on hemp..

[geisha]

9 hours ago, heybruce said:

Thailand won't have legal recreational marijuana until some well connected hi-so families can dominate the industry.  Just like with alcohol.

I’m sure they can find an expert in that domaine amongst themselves ? 

[Tropposurfer]

Time to be developing a business plan for a cool rasta type cannabis bar me thinks lol ???? 

[RocketDog]

1 hour ago, kiwikeith said:

Some will make a killing growing this <deleted> and selling it, and who is going to control the strength of this dope, the dopes that push it, Thailand will fill up with stoneheads, couple that with alcohol and driving and guns, the wild wild west will be established, crime will flourish, just imagine all the stoned idiots riding bike's around with 3 children on board, f ing stupidity at the least. 

Well, it's something to look forward to then. Things were getting boring in LOS. 

[Excel]

Everything thing that this crazy government wishes for appears to be "high end".  The only thing high end is their stupidity and ignorance.

[Jonathan Swift]

10 hours ago, heybruce said:

Thailand won't have legal recreational marijuana until some well connected hi-so families can dominate the industry.  Just like with alcohol.

Why do you think this prelude has been announced? Cracking the door open just a bit. It's their way of working up to exactly what you said. Incrementally. Do you think the hi so families are not already part of the discussion? Ha! They are probably leading it. Wherever there is money to be made the seas shall part. Combine the profiteering with the tourism angle and voila! It's just a matter of sorting out the size and distribution of the brown envelopes and the "taxes".