Thai doctors say marijuana is a "danger" to society - call for immediate liberalization U-turn

[Bday Prang]

1 hour ago, overherebc said:

Why on earth would I want or need to have a great knowledge of cannabis. What good would it do me in this world?

Ah, I think I have it, it would allow me to sit around stoned with a bunch of others who are stoned and we could convince ourselves we are the saviours of the free world.

In my life I had bigger aims.

It would stop you posting rubbish on here and maybe remove your misconceptions about it Thus removing your irrational but understandable fear of the unknown ! That would be a good start

[overherebc]

9 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

It would stop you posting rubbish on here and maybe remove your misconceptions about it Thus removing your irrational but understandable fear of the unknown ! That would be a good start

Good grief. I am happy for you to go and smoke your cannabis 'at home' just don't think you are anything special or super clever because you do.

[Sametboy2019]

Lao Khao ok though?

[DezLez]

56 minutes ago, thaichina said:

I m out of words, you really live in your own little world....

And now I know that it is the weed users who are in their "own little world" after the above post!

 

[DezLez]

1 hour ago, thaichina said:

I m out of words, you really live in your own little world....

A dam site safer and saner world than your pretend world I would suggest!

[jazzdog32095]

Remembering back to when I was 14 growing up in South Florida. My best friend BG and I got busted smoking red bud by his father Kort. Kort and Ms. Kort were quite the boozers and so Kort sat me and BG down at the bar and told as how bad it was smoking pot and offered up that anytime we had the ''urge'' to smoke that we were welcome to drink from his bar instead. Add one case of Jack Daniels to Mr. Gs monthly booze order. Looking back smoking bud mellowed us both enough to survive this infusion of free booze. Fifty years later and IMHO smoking a joint of good weed will tend to limit the amount of booze one will consume on any given evening. Recklessness is also reduced.

[overherebc]

1 hour ago, Sametboy2019 said:

Lao Khao ok though?

Maybe in a hurricane lamp.

[metisdead]

Some inflammatory posts, troll posts and the replies have been removed.

[Gilligan In Drag]

Its par for the course, garden variety Thai upper class hypocrisy and condescension. The doctors are speaking for the interests and well being of their patrons, the Thai upper classes among whom are people made wealthy via tobacco, alcohol and pharmeceuticals. I'm not sure the doctors realize the misplacement of their expressed concern in saying they are concerned about the children and youth of Thailand. Its also that they seem to need to take the opportunity to finger wag and cop the we know whats best for you attitude. They also don't know anything about anything and don't want to. They are never going to try smoking cannabis for themselves or discussing with many who think its ok, no its their social-cultural programming to have an aversion for cannabis, thats for low level people, criminals and foreigners and the discussion never even begins. 

 

They clearly are not that concerned about anyone's well being either apart from their own and others like them "well educated" professionals, successful people, though I don't think they realize that.. All the dangers and obstacles to people's lives that doctors and the government never mention, you never come away feeling anything different than they could care less. At the bottom of it, in Thai culture what the society and other people go through is of zero concern. You look out for your own and your clan and it stops there, so its is just a bunch of foam and irredecendent relections to say how they are concerned about the youth of Thailand. Anyway who would ever say screw the youth and the children throw them under the damned bus, though thats closer to the truth,

 

I used to work at a major university in Thailand working with researchers helping them get their English grammar in order, and the kind of concerns with public health in the many papers I read and worked with the authors on did not often extend to things such as the deadly air pollution, agricultural poisons that are decimating people in the countryside, or the way government regulations consistently block the possibility of prosperity and instead protect the elites from having to compete. People like these doctors just do what others around them are doing so that they can keep there jobs. Thy just say the right things they think others expect them to say and thats about all there is to it. What they think about cannabis has no meaning because they dont think anything, they are just toeing the line.  There are  these narrow ranges of research topics with the same foregone conclusions about cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and obesity and diabetes, little to nothing else as far as public health. The university which is very much a major medical university in Thailand seemed to me to be a mill for these kind of prohibitionists at the expense of a wider perspective at all the problems that would affect young Thai people and the population in general, one that should include concern about people's prosperity and reforming government that blocks and obstructs that seems to think that is what legislating laws is about, to make obstacles for people.

[spidermike007]

Have these goofballs ever compared ganga to alcohol? Such an over reaction by such grossly uninformed souls. 

[overherebc]

Has anyone ever compared cannabis to heroin and then gone on to compare heroin to crack cocaine and so on.

[QPRFC]

6,000 signatures out of the 70 million population.....I reckon this move is gaining momentum ????

[Bobbie Davies]

Just what I was going to say. Rounding it up big time to a thousand doctors out of all the doctors in Thailand? Sweeping condemnation. And not basing on science or effect of weed itself, but the tired old corruption of youth schtick? Love it. How many of the doctors were Muslim?

[Bkk Brian]

6 minutes ago, QPRFC said:

6,000 signatures out of the 70 million population.....I reckon this move is gaining momentum ????

Actually that petition was to put a regulation/law in to stop children being able to buy it legally which subsequently that was put in place so that under 20's cannot legally purchase. 

[RJRS1301]

On 7/25/2022 at 12:16 PM, starky said:

Are they equally concerned of the such ready availability of yaba and ice? Which are simple to get despite their illegality.

  Are they concerned about the use of alcohol and tobacco products available literally every 5-10 metres nationwide?

 Can we see the studies relating to recreational use of marijuana as a danger to public health?.

Please do not confuse them with research or peer reviewed studies

[Kwaibill]

On 7/25/2022 at 2:55 PM, ThaiFelix said:

Enough said! 

 

The doctors here dont even seem to understand the dangers of not following the correct protocols of prescribing antibiotics,  How the hell would they know the dangers of cannabis use??

Sounds to me like "Reefer Madness II, Thai style".

[Bobbie Davies]

Oh please. No different than Republonazis in the United States, or moral extremists in any Country. You must do what we want you to do because we know what’s best for you. Your body is ours  to do with as we like and you just rent it from us. Hurry up and wait in line for the dickin’. Fortunately the truly extreme ones are usually in the minority. Like I said earlier a drop in the bucket of doctors, and what else do you expect from the stone the infidel Muslims in the South?

[Hairball]

I have seen several posts regarding the potency of modern weed compared to the weed we grew up with.All this means for the vast majority of smokers is we get a good buzz off 4-5 hits rather than have to smoke 2 bowls to get the same effect