BREAKING SPEWS: Weed Now Only Smelly When Foreigners Smoke It

[SoCal1990]

I keep seeing the usual online outrage, foreigners puffing on weed in tourist areas, corrupting the youth, ruining the sacred purity of Thailand with their smelly sins. Won’t someone think of the children?

 

Anyway, today I’m walking down the soi in my respectable, middle class, very Thai neighborhood in Bangkok. Not some expat circus or backpacker zoo. Mostly locals here, the odd foreigner like me sprinkled in. And what do I see? Two Thai dudes, standing right there on the footpath, across from a small private hospital, just casually blazing up. Nice clean clothes. One was wearing an expensive looking Apple Watch. Normal looking guys, early thirties, looked like they were on a smoke break from being well-adjusted members of society.

 

Were they bothering anyone? No. Disturbing the peace? Nope. Summoning demons with their evil Mary Jane flowers? Didn’t seem like it. They were just having a chill chat and a toke, like you might with a coffee or a cigarette.

 

But here’s the ironic part: nobody batted an eye. No concerned aunties clutching their pearls. No kids bursting into tears. No moral panic. No three-alarm fire. Just normal life.

 

So let me get this straight. If a foreigner lights up in a touristy area, it’s a national emergency. But when it’s locals, in a non-tourist, mostly Thai neighborhood, that’s just fine?

[Hummin]

You know the law about smoking and waping in Thailand, if not I suggest you google it. 

[connda]

43 minutes ago, Hummin said:

You know the law about smoking and waping in Thailand, if not I suggest you google it. 

The Op is probably making the point that it's one set of rules for Thailand and another for "foreigners."

[blaze master]

I'm outraged. 

[blaze master]

I'm outraged.....wait did I already say that ?

[Hummin]

18 minutes ago, connda said:

The Op is probably making the point that it's one set of rules for Thailand and another for "foreigners."

I do not like the new drug tourists infest the hot spots I used to travel to. It is smoking weed everywhere and thats how it is. 

 

No matter its testaurants, pick up points for ferry, buss, around the swimmingpool balconies, ,,,,,,

 

Worst is the islands who had the weed culture, but only assigned to certain bars and redorts, now all over the place. 

 

It will be intersting to see whats going to happen next. 

[FriscoKid]

The local consumption of weed in Thailand surely outnumbers the amount of weed consumed by all the weed tourists combined, and by a large margin. 

[StandardIssue]

3 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

I keep seeing the usual online outrage, foreigners puffing on weed in tourist areas, corrupting the youth, ruining the sacred purity of Thailand with their smelly sins. Won’t someone think of the children?

 

Anyway, today I’m walking down the soi in my respectable, middle class, very Thai neighborhood in Bangkok. Not some expat circus or backpacker zoo. Mostly locals here, the odd foreigner like me sprinkled in. And what do I see? Two Thai dudes, standing right there on the footpath, across from a small private hospital, just casually blazing up. Nice clean clothes. One was wearing an expensive looking Apple Watch. Normal looking guys, early thirties, looked like they were on a smoke break from being well-adjusted members of society.

 

Were they bothering anyone? No. Disturbing the peace? Nope. Summoning demons with their evil Mary Jane flowers? Didn’t seem like it. They were just having a chill chat and a toke, like you might with a coffee or a cigarette.

 

But here’s the ironic part: nobody batted an eye. No concerned aunties clutching their pearls. No kids bursting into tears. No moral panic. No three-alarm fire. Just normal life.

 

So let me get this straight. If a foreigner lights up in a touristy area, it’s a national emergency. But when it’s locals, in a non-tourist, mostly Thai neighborhood, that’s just fine?

 

No, that's not the case, you only think it is. Go about your business, accept that not everything in Thailand is going to meet your criteria of what is right and get on with it. With concerns like this you'll have a heart attack within weeks. Let it go man.

[Hummin]

1 minute ago, FriscoKid said:

The local consumption of weed in Thailand surely outnumbers the amount of weed consumed by all the weed tourists combined, and by a large margin. 

Riding my motorbikes around in Thailand off the tourist tracks, you do not see Thai smoke in public, like you see tourists smoke in tourist infested areas. 

 

They do not smoke on restaurants with kids, do not sit and roll their joints on the table in public, at the ferries, pick up points.

 

If you see them, its locals at the rasta/pirat/jungle bar and sometimes all the way up in the corner of a beach. 

 

 

[FriscoKid]

3 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Riding my motorbikes around in Thailand off the tourist tracks, you do not see Thai smoke in public, like you see tourists smoke in tourist infested areas. 

 

They do not smoke on restaurants with kids, do not sit and roll their joints on the table in public, at the ferries, pick up points.

 

If you see them, its locals at the rasta/pirat/jungle bar and sometimes all the way up in the corner of a beach. 

 

 

I don't know where Thais go to smoke. That wasn't my point. I was only saying that they smoke more than the tourists do. But if you're a tourist, where are you going to smoke it if not close to the area where you bought it from? You can't go back to your hotel room and smoke it. So what are your options? Also, there is no smoking of anything allowed in restaurants in Thailand.

[ColeBOzbourne]

6 hours ago, SoCal1990 said:

So let me get this straight. If a foreigner lights up in a touristy area, it’s a national emergency. But when it’s locals, in a non-tourist, mostly Thai neighborhood, that’s just fine?

You made a very big extrapolation from one small, isolated incident.