Report Thailand to Reclassify Cannabis as Controlled Substance

[redwood1]

So are the 11,000 weed shops in Thailand  all going to have a Dr Feelgood there writing prescriptions to weed buyers?

 

Folks this whole thing is a joke.....Its just too late to try and put weed back in a box.....They already lost control years ago..

[kingstonkid]

21 hours ago, Purdey said:

First they want tourist money, then they don't. Weed has been illegal elsewhere for years, yet people still buy it. The legal way means taxing it - to the government's benefit.

 

There are a few things that will push this law through.  The biggest one is the sharp rise in people trying to smuggle it frm here to the UK and other cuntries.  This is not a good look for Thais.

 

Second is the rise in the number of Thai people using it and the number of shops that are selling, as well as the number of pop-up vans.   

 

Wonder in NANA has the right idea they have a doctor set up next door to their shop.

 

The interesting thing is going to be the quality of doctors who are involved.  Will they all have to be licensed and approved by law?  

[Robert Tyrrell]

THEY WILL DECIMATE THAILANDS,ECONOMY !! NEVER LEARN. 

[Satcommlee]

Oh Great,  Doctors can make more money selling Cannabis than they can in a hospital

[Felton Jarvis]

22 hours ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Yep it will be easy for Expats to get a Dr's certificate as I said. And yes the cops will do that - but they will also want to nail some people when the laws change - to look like they are doing their job. And dont walk around the streets smoking it - at least for a while. 

Hope you're right. I fear the worst because Thais are famous for taking dead aim at their feet.

[Bday Prang]

3 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Totally an emotive comment based on absolute unsubstantiated nonsense.

based basically on "reefer madness" like all anti cannabis rhetoric 

[bamnutsak]

6 minutes ago, Satcommlee said:

Oh Great,  Doctors can make more money selling Cannabis than they can in a hospital

 

or harder drugs...

 

Female doctor arrested for trafficking sedative drugs at police flat in Bangkok

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40051059

[Jai Yen]

21 hours ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

Who drinks on a workday before 5 PM? 

In the tourist zones, which you were referring to, many people.

Let's face it, Pattaya is not short of alcoholics, is it?

 

You obviously haven't seen some of the jerks in the tourist zones making a nuisance of themselves. They aren't happy go lucky adolescents having a bit of fun. 

We are talking about weed here, not alcohol.

 

For every story in Thailand about weed smokers making a nuisance of themselves, I could match them with 10 about drunkards causing trouble.

 

 

 

 

exactly  -   go to Soi Bukhao any day, monday or Sunday or Friday, doesn't matter, there are expats and tourists getting absolutely blotted at  11am straight through until  3am -  stoners  lol,  what's  the issue, they take naps 

 

  I  smoke weed myself and heard a while back  to never walk down the street with it, so I do it discreetly and quietly or in my  apartment. This genie is out of the bottle, some Thai's may want it put back in but that's impossible now, too many palms have been properly greased -  medical licenses not  much different than similar scams in the states, pay some pop-up Doc shop X amount of dollars, get the license 

[paul1804]

That's how it always should have been, the weed shops do no favours for attracting high spending tourists and family's which is the sector Thailand should be targeting. Sure there are some high rollers that smoke weed and use other means of illegal substances to get a buzz but they aren't the sector for this countries long term prosperity & give Farangs are bad reputation!  It was aways Anutin that pushed the current status quo for his own gain which is a reflection of Thailands elite & their practices. I hope common sense prevails and cannabis gets to be a controlled substance so you cannot legally walk down the street smoking it!!

[MarkBR]

22 hours ago, Purdey said:

First they want tourist money, then they don't. Weed has been illegal elsewhere for years, yet people still buy it. The legal way means taxing it - to the government's benefit.

Illegal weed means lots more corrupt money payments.  The corrupt are now very happy.

[Bday Prang]

45 minutes ago, Jake44 said:

 

Not to me.  I think cannabis smells 1000x worse.  Some of us must smell it differently than others.

some certainly seem to whinge more than most

[paul1804]

1 minute ago, Jai Yen said:

 

 

exactly  -   go to Soi Bukhao any day, monday or Sunday or Friday, doesn't matter, there are expats and tourists getting absolutely blotted at  11am straight through until  3am -  stoners  lol,  what's  the issue, they take naps 

 

  I  smoke weed myself and heard a while back  to never walk down the street with it, so I do it discreetly and quietly or in my  apartment. This genie is out of the bottle, some Thai's may want it put back in but that's impossible now, too many palms have been properly greased -  medical licenses not  much different than similar scams in the states, pay some pop-up Doc shop X amount of dollars, get the license 

Maybe you are right but at least it will be smoked in the privacy of ones home and not pubically which is not a good look, much the same as walking down the street drinking alcohol!

[BritManToo]

21 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Who drinks on a workday before 5 PM? 

You obviously haven't seen some of the jerks in the tourist zones making a nuisance of themselves. They aren't happy go lucky adolescents having a bit of fun. 

We used to have jugs of margaritas at Claridges with breakfast, our boss used to take us out before work and paid for it.

[Bert got kinky]

23 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

some certainly seem to whinge more than most

 

Yes, because Thailand used to smell nice but these dope smokers have polluted Thailand.

Now I can hardly smell the backed up sewers, the smog, tuk-tuk exhausts, the rotting seafood in the wet markets, the fermented fish sauce (plara) and the sweet smelling durian.

 

 

[Patong2021]

3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

We used to have jugs of margaritas at Claridges with breakfast, our boss used to take us out before work and paid for it.

 

That lifestyle faded away 10-15 years ago, and Covid was its demise.   When I first started working that's the way some people were. Today, most people under the age of 50 are not interested in that. They socialize differently.  I expect that the cannabis shops didn't fully understand their market.

[Jai Yen]

weed  smells better than sewers and exhaust fumes

 

walk around Pattaya and certain parts of Bangkok near the Klangs, would you really rather smell human waste  or  ganja  

[Hummin]

1 hour ago, redwood1 said:

So are the 11,000 weed shops in Thailand  all going to have a Dr Feelgood there writing prescriptions to weed buyers?

 

Folks this whole thing is a joke.....Its just too late to try and put weed back in a box.....They already lost control years ago..

If weed smokers just stop annoying other people in public, problem solved. The majority do not smoke weed!

 

[zyphodb]

F@%&ing idiots...

[Cabradelmar]

Shocked, not shocked. The entire decriminalization process (implementation) from the beginning was poorly thought through. It was like a wild west gold rush, and it was too sudden, extreme and unmanaged to make it sustainable or palatable to the saints and pearl clutchers. Unfortunately, there is now a lot of capital (dispensary owners and cultivators) at risk from those who moved fast in the beginning. My guess is if they do go through with this planned reversal, that it too will be poorly managed, leading to more chaos (uneven enforcement, payoffs and bribes too look away, etc.). Not to mention all the inevitable whinnying yet to come from those decrying the loss of weed tourist/tourism dollars. Personal, I'm disappointed. But it will no affect on anyone who knew how to get weed before decriminalization. I also think the advent of medical marijuana cards will be the way forward as a way to skirt this reverseal. We'll see.

[Bert got kinky]

5 minutes ago, Hummin said:

If weed smokers just stop annoying other people in public, problem solved. The majority do not smoke weed!

 

 

 

If whingers just stop annoying other people on public forums about their petty problems, problem solved. The majority do not give a toss about your views!

[Bday Prang]

1 hour ago, paul1804 said:

I hope common sense prevails and cannabis gets to be a controlled substance so you cannot legally walk down the street smoking it!!

It does not need to be a controlled substance in order to stop public usage.    just a simple rule forbidding public use, end of problem.  Now what were you saying about common sense?

[newbee2022]

2 hours ago, atpeace said:

Hope your pompous virtual signaling bags are packed.  Thailand would be such a better place without  angry souls like yourself 🙂

I'm not angry. But I don't want to see riffraff in Thailand. So better you would leave.

[Hummin]

30 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

 

If whingers just stop annoying other people on public forums about their petty problems, problem solved. The majority do not give a toss about your views!

Again, stupidity do not have limits, and you do not even know yourself do you? Getting annoyed by common sense. 

 

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I give you teaspoons of information if that helps. Public do care, thats why this is news, and new regulations and better regulations needed for everyones best. 

 

You know, when they need to  put up signs, to ask their customers, not to smoke their joints in public, in one of the busiest streets in Bangkok there is something off.

[dinsdale]

23 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

 

If whingers just stop annoying other people on public forums about their petty problems, problem solved. The majority do not give a toss about your views!

It's the self centred inconsiderate attitude that gives the ultra conservatives ammunition. If you can't smoke cigs or vape in restaurants why on earth should you be able to smoke dope. 

[Spock]

2 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

It does not need to be a controlled substance in order to stop public usage.    just a simple rule forbidding public use, end of problem.  Now what were you saying about common sense?

I come to Thailand a couple of months a year and am yet to smell marijuana when walking around - except for two young guys brazenly sharing a joint in the smoking area outside the airport. There are rules to control public use and in my experience people seem to abide by them. Perhaps in places like Pattaya extra liberties are taken, but the regulations are there to be enforced if people wish to do so. I'd have thought police would be keen to make an extra baht or two from apprehending weed smokers ignoring the law.

 

As somebody who originally came to Thailand as a backpacker from 81 onwards, I am shocked at the wowserish, holier than thou attitude of some of the expats who seem to want Thailand to even stricter than their own country.  It's ironic that the Thais now seem to have become more liberal in their attitudes while many of the expats come across as incredibly intolerant of anything that doesn't fit their narrow views. I'd have thought anyone wanting to make Thailand their permanent home would want to live in a more liberal country than the one they left. Apparently not.

[Bert got kinky]

6 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Again, stupidity do not have limits, and you do not even know yourself do you? Getting annoyed by common sense. 

 

😁✊️👏👏👏👏👏

 

I guve you teaspoons of information if that helps. Public do care, thats why this is news, and new regulations and better regulations needed for everyones best. 

 

You know when there need to be put up signs to ask their customers not to smokey their joints in public in one of the busiest streets in Bangkok

 

 

Public do care, thats why this is news

No Princess, the vast majority don't give a toss, it is just that the whingers won't shut up.

 

You do realise that when your momma said that you were special, it wasn't a compliment, don't you?

 

[Hummin]

2 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

 

Public do care, thats why this is news

No Princess, the vast majority don't give a toss, it is just that the whingers won't shut up.

 

You do realise that when your momma said that you were special, it wasn't a compliment, don't you?

 

I bet you know better than me 😁

 

Funny

[madone]

23 hours ago, Purdey said:

First they want tourist money, then they don't. Weed has been illegal elsewhere for years, yet people still buy it. The legal way means taxing it - to the government's benefit.

The problem is they never put a proper tax and regulation scheme in place before unleashing the hounds.

The biggest cash cow the thai government has ever seen and they completely dropped the ball on profiting from it. 

fokwits all of them. This is just a political football they are kicking around for points. 

The only people that give a fok about cannabis are the people that beleive the half-assed Reefer Madness campaigns and planted media stories that blame the antics of methheads and drunks on pot smokers. 

 

On 6/24/2025 at 11:34 AM, webfact said:

New business licences will require additional regulations and mandates that a doctor is present in shops or conduct monthly checks. Non-compliance could lead to licence revocation.

 

So incredibly stupid.

I have been smoking weed in Thailand since the day I got here in 1995, it was on the menu at the bungalow I lived in for the first six months. 

 

Years pre-legalization it was available for delivery with a single call or message on Line. 

they are not making recreatonal use go away.

 

[madone]

2 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

 

The interesting thing is going to be the quality of doctors who are involved.  Will they all have to be licensed and approved by law?  

no, a lab coat will suffice

[quake]

2 hours ago, redwood1 said:

Folks this whole thing is a joke.....Its just too late to try and put weed back in a box.....They already lost control years ago..

 

That's the problem, they never had control in the first place.

Total idiots incharge on this issue.