PM Blasted For Saying Cannabis Policy Yielded Bad Results

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PRIME MINISTER Srettha Thavisin was slammed by netizens after saying that the liberal cannabis policy had caused huge damage to the Thai people with this outstripping any economic benefit, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Apr. 1).

 

Srettha, who mentioned this during an interview on a possible policy to relist cannabis as a category 5 narcotic, was sternly ticked off by some online users for allegedly not understanding the regulations and the network that is calling for the issuance of a cannabis bill to amend the current law because large amounts are being smuggled in from neighbouring countries which is negatively affecting pharmacists and villagers who are using the plant for medical purpose.

 

After the liberal marijuana policy became effective on June 9, 2022 possessing and using all parts of cannabis plants, including flowers and seeds, are now allowed. However, extracted content remains illegal if it contains more than 0.2% of the psychoactive ingredient that produces a “high” — tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC.

 

The cannabis policy led to thousands of weed shops opening across the country.

 

by TNR Staff

TOP: A woman works inside a cannabis shop, at Khao San road, one of the favourite tourist spots in Bangkok on March 29, 2023. Photo: Reuters/Chalinee Thirasupa and published by CNA

 

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[ezzra]

This wishy-washy PM should take a leaf from Germany who just legalised the weed big time...

 

https://www.news.com.au/technology/germany-gives-controversial-green-light-to-cannabis/news-story/435236b7636222394a00da7810a8a9eb

[2baht]

Damned weed!

[daveAustin]

He’s infuriating with that arrogant smug look on his boat, and nothing more than a mouthpiece for some other douche. Tempting to say he shouldn’t be taken seriously as he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but is also quite dangerous for this country as he’s sticking his oar in and making ill informed decisions left and right. He does not understand his own people, but then again what gov has here in the past 50 years?

[bamnutsak]

9 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

but is also quite dangerous for this country as he’s sticking his oar in and making ill informed decisions left and right.

 

Meh.

 

He's not really doing anything, or making ill-informed decisions (other than sartorial).

 

All he does is "play" at the PM's job.

 

He's cartoonish at best/worst.

 

 

Why he spoke so strongly on his anti-cannabis views, to a foreign news outlet is perplexing. If he were sincere he would be sharing his concerns for the health of the youths of Thailand by loudly and repeatedly telling them how dangerous cannabis is. He could also be engaging Parliament to pass the Cannabis Control Act.

 

And by not doing anything about the burgeoning meth/crystal meth/ketamine problem he's making things worse.

 

But he does nothing but open his pie-hole.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jollyhangmon]

... fair enough dinkum, blast the puppet. 

Not only f'n clueless but also a blatantly lying sack of **it, as already remarked elsewhere ...

 

 

[brianthainess]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

because large amounts are being smuggled in from neighbouring countries

Where is the prove of this clown face?

[stoner]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

calling for the issuance of a cannabis bill to amend the current law because large amounts are being smuggled in from neighbouring countries

 

what does this already illegal act (facilitated by thai authorities i may add - otherwise how are large amounts getting through customs) have anything to do with the current mess of cannabis laws in thailand ? 

 

 

[SiSePuede419]

The other day I saw this Evil Weed® just growing by the side of the road.

 

How many children were molested as a result?

How many people got into a fight in a drunken rage because of this plant?

How many people lay dead by the side of the road after failing to "negotiate a curve" after drinking too much?

 

WHY DOES NOBODY CARE ABOUT THIS HARMFUL EFFECTS OF THIS PLANT 

😀😃😄😁😆😅😂🤣😭

 

[spidermike007]

This lame puppet PM is a man of such staggering ignorance, he is a man possessing such a miniscule degree of wisdom, this is a man who is literally the last person in the world who should be leading a nation.

 

The only thing he is fit to do is eat expensive dinners at Michelin starred restaurants, and drink fine wine for the rest of his life, while spending his fortune on indulgence.

 

Leadership? I don't think so. I thought Prayuth was the bottom of the barrel, Sretta is redefining what the bottom of the barrel looks like. Woe is Thailand. 

 

Comparing Sretta with Pita, is like comparing Justin Bieber with Beethoven. 

[Hakuna Matata]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

saying that the liberal cannabis policy had caused huge damage to the Thai people

 

I totally agree with Prime Minister on this issue!

 

But I do not agree with him on promoting Visa Free travel!

[chiman]

If the retailers would have been discrete, we wouldn't be dealing with this right now...and everyone would be smiling.  BUY WEED HERE!!!  WE LOVE WEED!!  IF YOU CAN'T GUESS, WE SELL WEED!!  so mindless 

[NorthernRyland]

Do you Thai people really want the kind of tourists that come to Thailand because it's a cheap place to smoke weed? I don't think so. That's the point he was trying to make. It's probably helped to increase the tourist numbers but what are the character of those people? Personally I don't care for the backpacker hippy pot smokers and I know many Thai people agree with me.

[Thumbs]

Both pm and deputy pm need heads banging together 

 

Deputy pm for its deregulation without proper laws to back its use, he let it become a free for all and has caused many to doubt it legitimate use, worse still he encouraged millions if not billions of investment to only have his party partner try to get it made illegal again

 

pm must have been sampling some of the weed he is against if he think he can easily close pandora’s box again after 2 years of freedom

 

compenSation needs to be forthcoming if its criminalized again and civil action against former minister of health for dereliction of duty rushing it through to gain election votes

 

plus when it was decriminalized all those who were serving time for possession were released from jail and records expunged will they be recalled to jail and their criminal record reinstated 

[Cabradelmar]

The only bad results yielded where when the PM was elected... 

[Marco51]

8 hours ago, ezzra said:

This wishy-washy PM should take a leaf from Germany who just legalised the weed big time...

 

https://www.news.com.au/technology/germany-gives-controversial-green-light-to-cannabis/news-story/435236b7636222394a00da7810a8a9eb

...........yes, german style : exact regulations meaning everything is sooo bureaucratic that it makes more sense to get pissed or keep buying the dope in the dark corners................

[Cabradelmar]

Ganja has been and will always be everywhere (in Thailand; and increasingly just about everywhere else in the world)... The fact there are now dispensaries in THA just makes cannabis an easy target for anyone with a complaint about anything - regardless of causation ("blame it on the weed" syndrome). 

[Marco51]

10 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

Do you Thai people really want the kind of tourists that come to Thailand because it's a cheap place to smoke weed? I don't think so. That's the point he was trying to make. It's probably helped to increase the tourist numbers but what are the character of those people? Personally I don't care for the backpacker hippy pot smokers and I know many Thai people agree with me.

what do you dream at night after the 11th beer chang? The Chinese are pressing the point and our dear self-elected leader will stand to attention, apart from .......berttter cancel that. Have you not heard that at times returnees to china get tested wether they have consumed? Probably running out of space at the "reeducation camps"................the only religion is the stalinist party, the only drug is the e vil emperor. By the way, do more tourists come to parts of the US of A , Canada or soon Germany because they don't have to queue up at the corner for a hit? Legalise all drugs , public health education and let everyone be responsible for him/herself.  Down with nanny states.

[candide]

15 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

Do you Thai people really want the kind of tourists that come to Thailand because it's a cheap place to smoke weed? I don't think so. That's the point he was trying to make. It's probably helped to increase the tourist numbers but what are the character of those people? Personally I don't care for the backpacker hippy pot smokers and I know many Thai people agree with me.

Thai people agree with anyone who brings money and no, It's not only backpackers who smoke weed.

 

Thai people are probably more concerned with Yaba and other  chemical drugs, which are de facto widely available and are are destroying the life of many Thai people.

[hotchilli]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Srettha, who mentioned this during an interview on a possible policy to relist cannabis as a category 5 narcotic, was sternly ticked off by some online users for allegedly not understanding the regulations and the network that is calling for the issuance of a cannabis bill to amend the current law because large amounts are being smuggled in from neighbouring countries which is negatively affecting pharmacists and villagers who are using the plant for medical purpose.

Get rid of competition and locals are self medicating ?

[sabaijai]

The PM should be blasted for offering zero statistics or other quantitative evidence suggesting the cannabis experiment has damaged Thailand either socially or economically as he has declared.

The stats I've seen suggest quite the contrary on the economic front. With regard to social deficits and/or physical harm, I would think a multi-variate factor analysis carried out for at least a year would be needed to indicate results either way.  

[TheFishman1]

What’s the astonishing is the p.m. visits Chiang Mai we should be declared a national disaster area due to the pollution in the air you go outside after 10 minutes my eyes are burning my throat hurts, but you guys wanna hurt or take away from Tourist wanting to visit here doesn’t he know that every church knows that it’s on the top three or four of the worst cities in the world for pollution marijuana he thinks the benefits of the money is not worth the effects I think alcohol is worse. TIT

[Photoguy21]

Presumably the effects have been positive. Wouldnt it be a good idea to list the good that selling weed has achieved?

[Guderian]

He's a typical politician, same as in the West. They live in their own cosy little bubble where everyone agrees with everything they say, so they know they must be right about everything, yet in reality they have no idea how ordinary people feel and think about most topics. Why bother when all their friends and colleagues tell them they're right?

[peter zwart]

I dont care about this stuff and i dont care if its legal or not but i think that they should put more effort in the Jaba and alcohol problem in the country. That is where te serious problems are coming from.

[CM Dad]

No, PM Srettha,  the two months of extreme air pollution throughout many regions of Thailand is what is causing huge damage to the country.  The pollution seems to get worse and worse each year but the government does nothing to try and correct it.  Srettha blamed it on neighboring countries when he was in Chiang Mai a few weeks ago just like he is now blaming neighboring countries for smuggling in marijuana.  

[Dirk Z]

9 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

Presumably the effects have been positive. Wouldnt it be a good idea to list the good that selling weed has achieved?

Looks like nobody can think of any....

[Photoguy21]

Just now, Dirk Z said:

Looks like nobody can think of any....

Now that is a surprise.

[wensiensheng]

8 hours ago, 2baht said:

Damned weed!

Blasted PM!

[Irish star]

7 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

 

Meh.

 

He's not really doing anything, or making ill-informed decisions (other than sartorial).

 

All he does is "play" at the PM's job.

 

He's cartoonish at best/worst.

 

 

Why he spoke so strongly on his anti-cannabis views, to a foreign news outlet is perplexing. If he were sincere he would be sharing his concerns for the health of the youths of Thailand by loudly and repeatedly telling them how dangerous cannabis is. He could also be engaging Parliament to pass the Cannabis Control Act.

 

And by not doing anything about the burgeoning meth/crystal meth/ketamine problem he's making things worse.

 

But he does nothing but open his pie-hole.

 

 

 

 

 

 

He spends most of his day picking out odd socks to wear with expensive suits