An inspector and three other Si Racha district police officers, in Thailand’s eastern province of Chon Buri, have been transferred to inactive posts at the operations centre for arresting a 56-year-old woman for having one cannabis plant in her apartment in Si Racha district.

 

Commander of Chon Buri provincial police Pol Maj-Gen Attasit Kitjaharn, who ordered the transfer of the four officers yesterday (Tuesday), said that the four should have exercised better judgment, by taking into consideration both the legal and social aspects, before making the arrest.

 

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He said that the Royal Thai Police have issued a directive for all police to follow regarding offences related to cannabis and hemp during the transition period, after an amendment to the Narcotics Bill which removed them both from Category 5 list of narcotics has been passed, but will only be effective from June 9.

 

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Always trying to make a baht. This should get the word out to the BIB to lay off.

 

I'm hoping that young plants or seedlings will be available for sale. 

Edited June 1, 20224 yr by Pinot

A good response... the issue of course is that the Police are untrained and lack any familiarity with the laws they are theoretically there to enforce....    IF they just stuck to not riding on pavements and keep away from controlling traffic lights they’d already be doing the country a service !

Didnt exactly the same thing happen a week or two? Same ol same ol left hand doesnt know what the right is doing

Did Anutin intervene?

Hey BiB , chill let some good vibes blow your way , take it easy man , the weed we need , the herb superb.

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

should have exercised better judgment, by taking into consideration both the legal and social aspects, before making the arrest.

Not to mention the embarrassment potential.

40 minutes ago, mancub said:

Not to mention the embarrassment potential.

They only care about the money potential. This new marijuana law thing should be a complete cluster f. With no one registering any plants. That's ridiculous. Invite the BIB over to cut your buds? Silly.

If the cops are 'transferred' to 'inactive posts' for an over-reaction for 1 weed plant, how come none are ever transferred to 'inactive posts' for under-reactions to roads deaths and safety ? 

22 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

If the cops are 'transferred' to 'inactive posts' for an over-reaction for 1 weed plant, how come none are ever transferred to 'inactive posts' for under-reactions to roads deaths and safety ? 

If they were punished for doing nothing, all would be gone!

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

If the cops are 'transferred' to 'inactive posts' for an over-reaction for 1 weed plant, how come none are ever transferred to 'inactive posts' for under-reactions to roads deaths and safety ? 

That's an easy one my friend....

Priorities 

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He said that the Royal Thai Police have issued a directive for all police to follow regarding offences related to cannabis and hemp during the transition period,

Follow directives.... plssss

12 hours ago, Kenny202 said:

Didnt exactly the same thing happen a week or two? Same ol same ol left hand doesnt know what the right is doing

Shouldn't use the term right hand and police in the same sentence, people could get the wrong impression.

13 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

A good response... the issue of course is that the Police are untrained and lack any familiarity with the laws they are theoretically there to enforce....    IF they just stuck to not riding on pavements and keep away from controlling traffic lights they’d already be doing the country a service !

Laws plenty of them!   Phones,  law noise,  liquor sales?  Covid rules hundred if not thousand that keep their heads spinning. In Pattaya everyone has stretch rules to the point everyone knows what is going on but leaders continue down the same path.  Police look at each other face Mai Lo?  they can't even determine how to direct traffic aside from putting out cones to close the road and then walk away. Transfer this their solution to everything or should I say how much is in that envelope. ????

12 hours ago, Pinot said:

They only care about the money potential. This new marijuana law thing should be a complete cluster f. With no one registering any plants. That's ridiculous. Invite the BIB over to cut your buds? Silly.

Marijuana has no new law only cannabis or Hemp. 

14 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

the issue of course is that the Police are untrained and lack any familiarity with the laws they are theoretically there to enforce

That's certainly true, but this particular situation was worsened by the fact that the government made the change in rules so convoluted and confusing - "it's legal! It's still illegal! It's legal but not yet! It's legal but you need to follow rules that haven't been written yet!" - that no one could possibly understand what "the law" actually was. 

The utter pettiness of these so called officers is just vulgar.

Real criminals get away with it left, right and centre, while the numpties pounce on innocent citizens as if they were murderers.

So you can grow a cannabis plants for home use without having to seek permission, BUT required to register with 'appropriate authorities' and all this for 0.2% THC.

All this kerfuffle for A Nut In government to get elected. A complete con and waste of time IMO.

 

If the police mafia had found one plant in a foreigner's home, they'd be on the phone right away to order a new Mercedes Benz. I wonder how many of these cars are paid for with extortion money.

Edited June 2, 20224 yr by renaissanc

5 minutes ago, renaissanc said:

If the police mafia had found one plant in a foreigner's home, they'd be on the phone right away to order a new Mercedes Benz. I wonder how many of these cars are paid for with extortion money.

All the plants where I live belong to a Thai national (along with the home).

 

15 hours ago, Pinot said:

Always trying to make a baht. This should get the word out to the BIB to lay off.

I hope and pray you are right about the BIB word getting out but I suspect many are spending their time figuring how to increase the take rather than keeping up with what the law is. I sure as heck know which is more important in their lives. Probably maybe sortof.

What really angers me about this? Well, why does it take 4 cops to arrest this 56 yo woman. Why are police wasting time on this nonsense crime? It's one plant for goodness' sake....she's not exactly Pablo Escobar.

Wouldn't police be better travelling the road and handing out tickets for atrocious driving? Wouldn't that save lives, as opposed to this useless stunt?

15 hours ago, Kenny202 said:

Didnt exactly the same thing happen a week or two? Same ol same ol left hand doesnt know what the right is doing

They are making it up as they go along as usual. 

 

????

1 hour ago, brianthainess said:

So you can grow a cannabis plants for home use without having to seek permission, BUT required to register with 'appropriate authorities' and all this for 0.2% THC.

All this kerfuffle for A Nut In government to get elected. A complete con and waste of time IMO.

 

Bill and Ben and a little weed , that takes me back.

You would think the RTP has weekly meetings where policies etc.are updated and people

are informed of the latest rules,i guess not.

Just like teacher should all know by now they are not allowed to cut the hair of students?

One teacher did not get that memo and attempted to do the deed.

He found out the hard way,some students beat him up pretty good!

I suspect it is going to be a tall order, to ask the RTP to give up what has likely been an extremely lucrative franchise for a long time. And as they just announced, smoking ganga will remain illegal for the foreseeable future. So, the RTP loophole rolls on. All the noise Anutin made, and like usual it is just noise, and means nothing. 

Cheech and Chong demand an intervention

2 hours ago, Andycoops said:

The utter pettiness of these so called officers is just vulgar.

Real criminals get away with it left, right and centre, while the numpties pounce on innocent citizens as if they were murderers.

yep easy and not dangerous eh.. perhaps not as stupid as we think

Either they were attempting to 'earn' some tea money and she didn't play ball or its down to a total lack of supervision/incompetence by the inspector.

Either way they shouldn't be in that line of work.

They were probably looking for some easy tea money. Only wish they would stop transferring these corrupt cops to inactive posts and just can their sorry @sses.