PM Blasted For Saying Cannabis Policy Yielded Bad Results

[Irish star]

35 minutes ago, TheFishman1 said:

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

But you have the Alcohol Lobby at your heels 

[jollyhangmon]

 

25 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?

 

Presumably the effects have been negative. Wouldnt it be a good idea to list the bad that selling weed has achieved, with proof of course, for a change ...?

 

 

[ignore it]

Dude needs to be taken behind the shed with a doobee and some good tunes.

[Yogiran]

1 hour 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.

Yea Thai people prefer drunken, sex addicted, hard drug using tourists better. Hippies are the worst.

[Tatman95]

7 hours ago, daveAustin said:

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?

Spot on 

[Robert Tyrrell]

Hello,

While rest of the world legalizes cannabis like Germany just did,The Prime Minister lives in the stone age!!! Why don't you ask all the farmers and shops that invested into their futures and generating large government revenue

for the government that invested during tough economic times and the PM wants the pull the rug out from underneath them !!! PATHETIC!!!

[Purdey]

Do Thai people really want the kind of tourists that come to Thailand because it's a cheap place to get smashed on alcohol? I don't think so. First it was Bill Heinecke promoting a change in the law for more alcohol guzzling in his hotel properties. Now, property owner Sretta joining in about more freedom during the afternoon to get pissed legless in public but without comment on the number of families it destroys. Personally, I don't care for the balding drunks who come here to get p*ssed and I know many Thai people agree with me.

[Thingamabob]

1 hour 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.

Ignorant comment. Not only backpackers enjoy weed. It's way more civilised than alcohol or meth.

[Accidental Tourist]

Cannabis for medical use...no problem, but for recreation and fun? ...is still a drug and should be controlled as such (like now in Germany), but open for businesses just to make a profit? Only addicted and sellers will celebrate this. But I guess is a free world, where people can pursue their luck of gaining happiness...Chayooooooo

[Accidental Tourist]

Cannabis for medical use...no problem, but for recreation and fun? ...is still a drug and should be controlled as such (like now in Germany), but open for businesses just to make a profit? Only addicted and sellers will celebrate this. But I guess is a free world, where people can pursue their luck of gaining happiness...Chayooooooo

[Accidental Tourist]

Cannabis for medical use...no problem, but for recreation and fun? ...is still a drug and should be controlled as such (like now in Germany), but open for businesses just to make a profit? Only addicted and sellers will celebrate this. But I guess is a free world, where people can pursue their luck of gaining happiness...Chayooooooo

[ABCDBKK]

1 hour ago, Cabradelmar said:

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

 

Was he elected?

[RichardColeman]

Look I am 100% against cannabis - if only because Thais cannot currently handle alcohol , but if you want to smoke this smelly stuff half way up a mountain and away from the general public , you have my full support to go and buy it.

 

I think someone living next to you that drinks too much is not an issue, but i fail to see why i should have to breathe in this rubbish or have my washing smell of it. 

[Thingamabob]

41 minutes ago, jollyhangmon said:

 

 

Presumably the effects have been negative. Wouldnt it be a good idea to list the bad that selling weed has achieved, with proof of course, for a change ...?

 

 

If people would switch from alcohol to weed there would be much less violence and alcohol-related illness in Thailand. Utterly fatuous comment from the PM. 

[ABCDBKK]

According to a recent report, 10 million locals now use cannabis. That's 1 in 7 Thai people using cannabis. The tourists are only a small fraction of the business and consumption of weed in Thailand. If they change the laws to make recreational use of cannabis illegal again now it is going to deeply harm the local economy, become a judicial nightmare and the prisons will soon be flooded with cannabis users. This is the very reason that Germany just legalized recreational use of cannabis yesterday. So they should be careful what they wish for. 

[johnnybangkok]

I think we all know where his and the Phea Thai's extreme views on drugs is coming from and it's not from any objective viewpoint.

 

'In February 2003, the Thai government, under then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, launched a 'war on drugs', purportedly aimed at the suppression of drug trafficking and the prevention of drug use. In fact, a major outcome of this policy was arbitrary killings. In the first three months of the campaign there were some 2800 extrajudicial killing.'

 

https://www.hrw.org/news/2008/03/12/thailands-war-drugs

Edited April 2 by johnnybangkok

[johnnybangkok]

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Edited April 2 by johnnybangkok

[Will B Good]

I imagine Thaksin has had a word in his shell like…...

[Baba Naba]

10 hours ago, 2baht said:

Damned weed!

Not a weed. Weed is a "unwanted and not valued" plant.  Cannabis is a necessary healing herb with flowers! 🙂

[Brickleberry]

A naturally growing plant that has been used for millennia for recreational, medicinal and religious reasons = Very dangerous, must be illegal again.

Yaba, meth pills etc. = Totally OK as long as you have five pills or less.

 

WTF?

[Thingamabob]

It makes no sense to allow the drinking of alcohol, the smoking of cigarettes and the (limited) consumption of meth, but not to allow regulated cannabis availability.

[Thingamabob]

It makes no sense to allow the drinking of alcohol, the smoking of cigarettes and the (limited) consumption of meth, but not to allow regulated cannabis availability.

[Thingamabob]

It makes no sense to allow the drinking of alcohol, the smoking of cigarettes and the (limited) consumption of meth, but not to allow regulated cannabis availability.

[Burma Bill]

10 hours ago, 2baht said:

Damned weed!

 

Yes indeed. Maybe all the pot head ex-pats in Thailand will emigrate to Germany when the recreational use of Cannabis becomes a criminal offence again.

[Trip Hop]

3 hours ago, chiman said:

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 

 

As someone who advocates its use providing it is in a controlled and respectable manner, I have to agree with you.  They have done themselves no favours in the way that they have allowed it to be openly promoted. 

[sambum]

3 hours 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.

 

"Personally I don't care for the backpacker hippy pot smokers......" 

 

I suppose you would rather have the drunken slobs that stagger about ranting and raving and wanting to have a fight with anyone and everyone?

 

Or the recent "visa free" visitors that seem intent on "bad behaviour" of all kinds - not just violence, but theft and cheating on their bills etc etc etc?

 

I think for the most part, the "backpacker hippy pot smokers" are pretty harmless, and would rather chill out on a beach and enjoy the sunsets, causing trouble for no one - indeed "keeping themselves to themselves, man!"

Edited April 2 by sambum

[impulse]

It would be interesting to see what happened to beer and Hong Thong sales while weed was legalized.

 

Maybe that's what he meant by "bad results"?

 

[MangoKorat]

3 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

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

I am not supporting Srettha in any way but I hope you're not suggesting that someone who's high on weed can negotiate a curve safely?

[curious297]

1 hour ago, ABCDBKK said:

According to a recent report, 10 million locals now use cannabis. That's 1 in 7 Thai people using cannabis. The tourists are only a small fraction of the business and consumption of weed in Thailand. If they change the laws to make recreational use of cannabis illegal again now it is going to deeply harm the local economy, become a judicial nightmare and the prisons will soon be flooded with cannabis users. This is the very reason that Germany just legalized recreational use of cannabis yesterday. So they should be careful what they wish for. 

According to a recent report, 10 million locals now use cannabis However before it was legal there were probably like 999,9901 locals smoking weed. The way you are talking you make it sound like it’s new in Thailand but it’s not. Finally Thailand stopped with “the weed made me cut off my dick” or “Weed made me kill my (fill in family members name here)”. Considering no one person ever died from weed overdose ever, I think Thailand should concentrate on drugs that do the most danger like cigarettes, alcohol etc but they won’t as like everywhere in the world, we have corporate greed and we all pay (taxes) to play.  
 

How does a government tell you what you can’t in your body but then give you untested injections containing stuff you really shouldn’t put in your body than more people died from than taking weed? 

[candide]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Look I am 100% against cannabis - if only because Thais cannot currently handle alcohol , but if you want to smoke this smelly stuff half way up a mountain and away from the general public , you have my full support to go and buy it.

 

I think someone living next to you that drinks too much is not an issue, but i fail to see why i should have to breathe in this rubbish or have my washing smell of it. 

How often do you have to breathe that rubbish? You seem to be overstating it.

It only smells near cannabis shops so unless you stand near them you don't smell anything. And it's usually only in entertainment areas such as Soi BuaKhao or Nana.

People seldom smoke weed in bars. On the other hand , people smoking cigarettes, or worse narguile, are a true pain in the ass!