Report Israeli Tourist Busted for Selling Magic Mushrooms on Koh Samui

[Cameroni]

21 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

An old Thailand friend had lived in Goa for many years, he said that Israelis had the illicit drugs trade sewn-up there (He himself was a bit of a junkie).

 

Yah, I met an Israeli who stayed in Goa long term as well, they love Goa.

[Andrew65]

Just now, Cameroni said:

 

Yah, I met an Israeli who stayed in Goa long term as well, they love Goa.

According to Peter it's somewhere that they tend to go after finishing their military service.

[Cameroni]

2 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

According to Peter it's somewhere that they tend to go after finishing their military service.

 

Yes, clearly they love all places where drugs are easily obtained. I still remember the craze of "legal highs" when Israeli manufacturers of legal highs would always be one step ahead of the law, by changing some molecule on the designer drug. There were some absolute Israeli geniuses making legal highs back then, until the Brits cottoned on and made legal highs illegal across the board without specific reference to the drug, thus outfoxing the genius synthetic drug manufacturers in Israel.

[Andrew65]

39 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

These Israelis are ruining it for all of us.

 

Why can't Thailand just suspend Visa privileges for Israeli citizens?

In years to come, due to 'overtourism', I suspect that Thailand will start to require a visa before travel for many nationalities. It's very easy to run criminal record checks on someone in the UK (DBS). They've long talked about wanting 'quality' high-spending tourists anyway, rather than kee nok farang.

Because of it's geographic location there's a risk that Thailand could be overwhelmed by numbers.

[Cameroni]

7 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

In years to come, due to 'overtourism', I suspect that Thailand will start to require a visa before travel for many nationalities. It's very easy to run criminal record checks on someone in the UK (DBS). They've long talked about wanting 'quality' high-spending tourists anyway, rather than kee nok farang.

Because of it's geographic location there's a risk that Thailand could be overwhelmed by numbers.

 

Oh there's no question if the antics of Israeli, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech and other East Europeans continue here in Thailand it's only a question of time before Thailand tightens the visa screws to get a handle on this admittedly never ending slew of criminal activity. The writing's on the wall.

[grain]

3 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Bualooooy

 

 

Great song, they really were an incredible band, I saw them live a few times back in the 1980s, and had several of their albums. They were immensely popular in Thailand back then.

[roo860]

2 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Algeria, Bangladesh, Brunei, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen are ones that I know of.

I'm sure they wouldn't be queuing to go to those sh!t holes.

[GarryP]

I stayed on Samui back in 1982 and remember a number of restaurants serving magic mushroom (het kee kwai) milkshakes and omelettes on Chawaeng beach, so it appears things haven't changed that much. Thai sticks were cheap too, back when they were illegal.  

[madone]

1 hour ago, JackGats said:

Except mushrooms, magic or not - or anything Nature invented - should never be illegal in the first place. That is the point that should be made, not some xenophobic one.

 

illegal is one thing, illegal for sale is another.

[madone]

1 hour ago, Cameroni said:

These Israelis are ruining it for all of us.

 

Why can't Thailand just suspend Visa privileges for Israeli citizens?

 

Their money built this country, duh.

[norsurin]

4 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Maybe ban all Israelis from entering Thailand.

They are a bunch of misbehavers.

This people is the worst i ever meet.

[Cameroni]

2 minutes ago, madone said:

 

Their money built this country, duh.

 

Say it right "My mannnneeee built your countreeee!

 

 

[unblocktheplanet]

3 hours ago, MisterTee said:

Israeli misbehaviour is nothing new in Thailand.

As long ago as the early 1980s the biggest mountain trekking company in Chiang Mai banned them after getting so many complaints from their guides about obnoxious Israeli behaviour.

The deal is these young Israelis, both genders just escaped conscript service in the IDF killing Palestinians. They've always come here afterwards to blow off steam.

[JackGats]

1 hour ago, Aussie999 said:

So, using your logic, arsenic, cyanide, uranium, numerous viruses and bacterium, etc should all be legal.

Well, you forgot children. Children should be illegal since they lead to child sex, which is the worst thing in the whole Universe.

[grain]

Photo I took in 1987, this was at Koh Samui, from memory it was near BoPut.

 

 

 

[Kinok Farang]

Israeli busted for hamas of mushrooms?

[Andrew65]

28 minutes ago, GarryP said:

I stayed on Samui back in 1982 and remember a number of restaurants serving magic mushroom (het kee kwai) milkshakes and omelettes on Chawaeng beach, so it appears things haven't changed that much. Thai sticks were cheap too, back when they were illegal.  

Maybe back then Thailand didn't have the horrendous drugs problem that it does today?

[Andrew65]

43 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Oh there's no question if the antics of Israeli, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech and other East Europeans continue here in Thailand it's only a question of time before Thailand tightens the visa screws to get a handle on this admittedly never ending slew of criminal activity. The writing's on the wall.

Yes, but it ain't just folks from those countries, people from the Anglo countries & western Europe too.

[Zapitapi]

7 minutes ago, Kinok Farang said:

Israeli busted for hamas of mushrooms?

for humus :)

[ChipButty]

10 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

Maybe back then Thailand didn't have the horrendous drugs problem that it does today?

Back then nobody cared, 

[Cameroni]

10 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

Yes, but it ain't just folks from those countries, people from the Anglo countries & western Europe too.

 

Yes, sadly the Brits and Australians are another two problem people.

 

But if their visas go, then we're all done.

[NorthernRyland]

56 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

Oh there's no question if the antics of Israeli, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech and other East Europeans continue here in Thailand it's only a question of time before Thailand tightens the visa screws to get a handle on this admittedly never ending slew of criminal activity. The writing's on the wall.

 

but they just went in the opposite direction with the DTV. It's so strange that during the time when they appear to be having the most problems with tourists they just issued by far their most generous visa with remarkably low requirements.

[NorthernRyland]

36 minutes ago, grain said:

Photo I took in 1987, this was at Koh Samui, from memory it was near BoPut.

 

 

I'm guessing Thailand has nearly 10x the tourists now than they did back then and they're much younger too probably and from many more  nationalities.

[Harrisfan]

8 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Yes, sadly the Brits and Australians are another two problem people.

 

But if their visas go, then we're all done.

Young hot asian women are the only good people

[Magictoad]

4 hours ago, ryandb said:

Considering there's more weed shops/cafes/bars than massage shops on the island these days I'm guessing most of the <deleted>ty ones who sell very low quality weed (because they don't have a clue about it) etc are a front for illegal narcotics.

Hope so. The sooner the  Thai authorities  legalise magic mushrooms the better

[Cameroni]

26 minutes ago, NorthernRyland said:

 

but they just went in the opposite direction with the DTV. It's so strange that during the time when they appear to be having the most problems with tourists they just issued by far their most generous visa with remarkably low requirements.

 

Yes, out of economic need after the Covid lockdown debacle which killed tourism numbers, they went for the green. But if these criminal stories keep up involving foreigners, then surely it's a question of time before these visas get harder to obtain.

[PETERTHEEATER]

21 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Aw shucks. If not the local Israeli weed shop, where's a brother supposed to go now to get hooked up with magic mushies?

Any kosher delicatessen.😀

[MisterTee]

1 hour ago, unblocktheplanet said:

The deal is these young Israelis, both genders just escaped conscript service in the IDF killing Palestinians. They've always come here afterwards to blow off steam.

Well, gosh, I guess that's all we need to know about it, right?

[Jingthing]

11 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Any kosher delicatessen.😀

You're confusing Israelis with New Yorkers.

[VillageIdiot]

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

You're confusing Israelis with New Yorkers.

Same-same but different.

I grew up in and around New York City.... they're joined at the hip.