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"Reefer Madness": Thai media continue to attack marijuana use blaming it for violence/addiction


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1 hour ago, RandolphGB said:

The British boiler room boys who've poured millions into those tacky neon-lit shops across the country won't be happy when the drug is criminalised again.

Nor will I and I can't even smoke anymore. But... what are they going to do about it?

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Everyone posting seems to have missed the point of media bias. Problem is Thais are socialised to believe even the absurd. Ghosts for instance. Still wearing masks were there is no need to. This whole thing about legalisation is about politics, the conservative right, the Buddhist lobby and keeping the mushrooms in the dark and feeding them s.... . I have seen absolutely nothing based on the science of marijuana being a narcotic or not. Even the WHO has downgraded it.

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5 hours ago, MrMuddle said:

Ridiculous stories, anyone with any inteligence can see it's propaganda.
Every village has kids, usually boys, who are uncontrollable, due to their every wish being granted by aging grandparents, who look after them, while the kid's parents chase big money, in the cities. NOTHING at all to do with Cannabis, and EVERYTHING to do with bad parenting.
There's a man who visits our village, who has tantrums, and jumps up and down like a big soft girl, when he can't get his own way, and shakes when he can't get any alcohol. All caused by his parents indulging him when he was a boy.

And your medical qualification is?

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1 hour ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

It's all about education of the young.

The BBC had a TV programme for infants in the distant past featuring Bill and Ben the flower POT Men. Their sidekick was a cannabis looking spikey leaved smiling plant uttering the catch phrase

" Bop de bop WEED" ????

 

 

 

went to a school in bkk on Saturday, there must have been 30 posters around education kids about the 'evils' of the weed

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3 hours ago, LiamB80 said:

Cannabis isn’t as harmless as people think especially for teenagers and young adults when the human brain isn’t fully developed until 25yo. It can severely alter the psyche of these young people. Modern strains are highly potent and basically zonk people out of their mind. I myself was a regular cannabis and quit a few years ago when I noticed things in my life i didn’t like. Irritability and even outbursts when I didn’t have it and I also felt its better to face the world with a clear mind. Occasional users won’t have these issues but when it becomes a habit it can be harmful.

Exactly, as a matter of fact, using Cannabis one develops tolerance, there are some receptors in the brain that get blocked, so the person want to smoke more and more. For people who understandably want the benefits of medical cannabis they should go for CBD, without the pscyco active effects of the THC. 

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3 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

It's all about education of the young.

The BBC had a TV programme for infants in the distant past featuring Bill and Ben the flower POT Men. Their sidekick was a cannabis looking spikey leaved smiling plant uttering the catch phrase

" Bop de bop WEED" ????

 

 

 

I remember it as " little weeed"....

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2 hours ago, Wanderer555 said:

An alternative to your claim would be the boy has pre-existing mental health issues that marijuana use helps to control, and when not medicated with THC the underlying behavioral problems resurface.

 

Just an idea …????

exactly. its a medicine. put him on a chemical from Pfizer instead? what about Ritalin?

 

people abuse every medicine. the question is, does it help the people who use it correctly? the answer is yes.

 

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3 hours ago, jvs said:

I was away for a few days in a town lets name it Cannabisburi,many  people

openly smoking and being happy.

No angry or paranoid people to be seen,all a very big party.

Anything wrong with that?

 

And may Glasto live long and prosper...

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6 hours ago, Homburg said:

Cannabis, from what I have seen so far, can cause problems as can all drugs, however the problems from cannabis appear to be considerably less than those from alcohol, the misuse of which leads to violence and deaths seemingly every day.  Could it possibly be that the anti-cannabis rhetoric is being funded by the booze manufacturers, worried about losing their profits?

Not to mention the traders in meth.

 

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18 hours ago, Jumbo1968 said:

As far as I know there is no tax on selling cannabis albeit you have apply for a licence to grow or sell so how is the Thai government making money from it ?

Licensing fee(s)?

 

VAT?

 

Arguably cannabis should have additional taxes as do alcohol and tobacco.

 

 

In theory the Cannabis Control Act would provide all the controls people seem to desire?

 

 

 

 

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