Social media goes ballistic as small kids pictured smoking marijuana in a bamboo bong at Pattaya beach

[patman30]

nobody under the age of 20
has ever touched a single drop of alcohol, ever

[Dirk Z]

But at least we adults are safe as we cannot have a beer between 2 and 5 pm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RichardColeman]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Then one said he wasn't scared - his dad was in the military.

Yes, aint that the truth !

[marcho]

Do they know if it was ganja they were smoking, could have been tobacco from so.e butt's they found. 

[Phnom Penh Trader]

5 hours ago, champers said:

Wouldn't surprise me if it was a staged photo.

I don’t even partake of the Jamaican Woodbines but that was my first thought also!

[Archie Baker]

5 hours ago, JoePai said:

Thank their parents

Thank their Auntie A

[Burma Bill]

2 hours ago, Accidental Tourist said:

Cannabis is a DRUG and should be controllet...

During my career, Cannabis provided me with well paid employment in the UK Police Forensic Service, analyzing samples and preparing reports for prosecutions in Criminal Courts!! I am now retired with a non-contributory,  index linked pension based on final salary - thank you marijuana!!

[Seeall]

6 hours ago, ezzra said:

"gone ballistic" really? and i'm shocked that you're shocked... like young kids don't do drugs in Thailand and specially those street's urchins...

So its illegal under 20 - so whats it to do with all the over 20's?   Are they banning alcohol thai wide because a minor had a beer?  OF COURSE not..  (nice booze tax.. never ban that...) A rubbish article and silly reporting and silly readers if agree with it.. or ban motor scooters because you saw underage rideers?  and so on..

how about making idiots illegal?

[0815]

Didn't have enough pocket money left for Ya Baa, so ...

[HappyExpat57]

6 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

Cue all the comments from expat stoners defending drugs…

Cue all the comments from stuffy old farts who forgot what it's like to be young.

[Robert Tyrrell]

Hello,

 

This is an absolute ridiculous article !! 
 

Why don’t you post underage kids buying Beer in the villages !!?? I’ve Seen it many time !!.

This is an absolute distasteful article !!

[Cardano]

2 hours ago, PEE TEE said:

Not good but meanwhile back in the UK the kids are running wild with knives 

Always at least one who has to make stupid comparisons with other countries thinking it somehow justifies what is happening in Thailand. The thread is about preteens allegedly smoking pot in Thailand and not about kids in the UK with knives - stay on topic.

[Cardano]

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

"gone ballistic" really? and i'm shocked that you're shocked... like young kids don't do drugs in Thailand and specially those street's urchins...

Racist comment. Those "street urchins" as you call them didn't choose to be born into poverty.

[JimboB4]

7 hours ago, terryq said:

On the positive side.....

 

The parents should be congratulated for teaching their children to use renewable materials , the bamboo bong, instead of plastic.!

 

The ones you buy in the shop are glass. I know someone who made me a bamboo bong when they first started allowing it. 

[Sydebolle]

One way of keeping the kids at bay in Kindergarten ........... 

[spidermike007]

So what? A few kids getting high. I started smoking when I was 13. It was nothing. Let the netizens work themselves into a tizzy. That is on them. 

[snoop1130]

Health minister challenged over young boys seen smoking weed in Pattaya

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1279546-health-minister-challenged-over-young-boys-seen-smoking-weed-in-pattaya/

[twchang]

4 hours ago, proton said:

Better than sniffing glue though

super glue ????

[jimn]

Apparently the kids are Cambodian kids with no parents who ran away from the home. They are a lost cause already, bad parents who dont care and Thai authorities, legalising cannabis without any due care as to what the effect of this decision would have in the real world. I am all for legalising the drug but for heavens sake lets take back some control. Even in liberal countries like the Netherlands you cannot openly deal and sell the drug like it is over here now.

[Peabody]

The laws are already in place to prevent this. 

The only thing missing is actual enforcement.

[metisdead]

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[riclag]

5 hours ago, bbi1 said:

Well, that's what happens when weed is available everywhere, being sold every 50m from the next seller.

Sickening  to see this story.

While checking out Patong videos on YT , I noticed many stalls with Cannabis signs ! 

It boggles the  mind !

 

 

[Snig27]

9 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

Cue all the comments from expat stoners defending drugs…

Most of comments I've seen on social media have been from Thais saying that the parents are responsible. Still, if it satisfies your small minded self-righteous paranoia to see these kids possibly have their futures destroyed by jailing them in future years for doing something people all over the have done since forever and will do regardless of the law then I guess that's something you need to live with. 

The current law doesn't permit this but kids will be kids and the parents, at the end of the day, are the ones responsible here. Do you really think this didn't happen six months ago?

[MrJ2U]

Probably better than the kids inhaling paint and glue fumes behind city hall.

 

It looks like a propaganda picture produced for the people who want a piece of the action. 

[yawg]

11 hours ago, bbi1 said:

Well, that's what happens when weed is available everywhere, being sold every 50m from the next seller.

What's wrong with weed? Nobody ever died from it and loads of people of all ages had a lot of fun.

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, JoePai said:

Thank their parents

Thank Anutin as-well.

[jacko45k]

12 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

Cue all the comments from stuffy old farts who forgot what it's like to be young.

Oooh, original. What will Santa bring you?

[SunnyinBangrak]

Do they summon the minister of health every time a kid is caught drinking alcohol? Why different in this case? Kids will be kids, not worth making a big song and dance over

[Tropposurfer]

Speaking as a thirty year practicing Masters degreed psychotherapist ...

... There is longterm gathered and collated  data from across the globe (from many different medical, neurological, and front line social and drug support agencies, both - lay and professional workers) which show a causal link between early life marijuana use and onset of serious psychotic illness.

This is especially the case with hydroponically grown high THC strains of weed.

I'm not against people getting high but children now way.

If I could smoke again as I did when I was young but without the paranoia that comes for me I would smoke it today lol ???? So I aint' no prude or control-freak about others indulging.

 

Society and the extension of societal norms and wishes i.e. our governments, need to step up about keeping children's young developing brains from any form of intoxication. Sadly many in our society simply abrogate themselves of the sacred responsibility of caring and nurturing the children. If you're one of those parents who buys your kids alcohol then stop!

 

I am not bashing Thailand, because many and most nations have <deleted> understanding and practises of what is actually going on as far as care of children is concerned, around drugs and most other developmental and life-long challenges .... despite all the rhetoric, edicts, rules, and legislations. 

No doubt what we have seen with this to-and-fro here in LOS about ganja gives us further indications of people who are either totally ignorant and thus shouldn't be speaking at all on the subject, who are being advised by, maybe very well educated people in some ways 'experts' who are dumb-as-rocks (disconnected and in their cognitive bio-psychiatric heads) when it comes to the relational and emotional issues of child drug care. 

[Harsh Jones]

If you look at the laws on the continent, it really is the Amsterdam of Asia. They didn't want it to be that way. But there's no avoiding it now.