Report Thailand to Reclassify Cannabis as Controlled Substance

[Bday Prang]

Just now, DezLez said:

Outrageous stereotyping based on nothing.

based on the numerous comments from people like you actually, 

 

"

Only to the disgusting obnoxious people smoking the sh!t in public!

If you must do it I suggest do it home!"

 

By all means suggest that people smoke it at home (I always  do anyway) but why refer to people as "disgusting and obnoxious"   it can only be a form of virtue signalling to like minded others

[DezLez]

21 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

There has always been a subset of people who like to get upset about the behaviour of others, retired school teacher types normally,  They would be more comfortable in somewhere like Dubai or Singapore 

 

7 minutes ago, DezLez said:

Outrageous stereotyping based on nothing.

 

2 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

based on the numerous comments from people like you actually, 

I am not a retired school teacher so your stereotyping is NOT based on either myself or any known norms.

Maybe stop taking the weed and that way you may become able to make an intelligent post.

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, atpeace said:

I do find many of the anti weed posters have interesting perspectives but the pompous fools that are insulting bore me. 

 

Smoking at home or ,when in public, in areas that don't offend others would have probably eliminated the risk of it being banned.  For whatever reason the smell and the act of smoking is upsetting to many.  Too bad we can't rewind the legalization and implement strict restrictions on where it could be smoked and sold.

Don't think it would matter, this is a fight between cannabis and casinos, nothing else.

And the casinos owned by foreign nationals will suck all the cash out of Thailand.

Thaksin and treason rolled up together, and hopefully soon burned.

[Bday Prang]

8 minutes ago, DezLez said:

 

 

I am not a retired school teacher so your stereotyping is NOT based on either myself or any known norms.

Maybe stop taking the weed and that way you may become able to make an intelligent post.

jesus happy hour must have ended early today, do yourself and the rest of us a favour and go sleep it off, try not to pi$$ the bed ....again

[DezLez]

1 minute ago, Bday Prang said:

jesus happy hour must have ended early today, do yourself and the rest of us a favour and go sleep it off, try not to pi$$ the bed ....again

Is that the most erudite response you can come up with?

I assume you refuse to apologise for your all-embracing unfounded accusation against school teachers!

[Bday Prang]

4 minutes ago, DezLez said:

I assume you refuse to apologise for your all-embracing unfounded accusation against school teachers!

when you apologise for your unfounded  insult to users of cannabis  "disgusting and obnoxious"

Actually schoolteachers spend their entire working lives getting upset about the behaviour of others its only to be expected for them to have trouble stopping so hardly an unfounded accusation

[baansgr]

2 hours ago, Steve Mee said:

November 11, 2025 apparently is the day.

 

Cannabis or marijuana again going underground on November 11 2025 after minister’s order on Monday

• June 25, 2025 at 1:44 am
• by Joseph O' Connor
• in Crime, Culture, Living, Media, Politics, Thailand
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Thailand’s cannabis free-for-all is over. Minister Somsak signs a sweeping crackdown, shutting down most of 18,000 weed shops. From Nov 11, 2025, only prescription use is legal. Recreational cannabis goes underground as reclassification as a narcotic also looms.

Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsutin has slammed the brakes on Thailand’s cannabis free-for-all. On Monday, he signed off on sweeping new rules that will gut the country’s booming weed industry and shut down the vast majority of its 18,000 cannabis outlets. The crackdown isn’t just regulatory—it’s a death sentence for recreational use. New controls take effect on November 11, 2025. But the hammer is already falling. Somsak is going further, fast-tracking cannabis back onto the Schedule 5 narcotics list. That means police will soon have full authority to arrest, prosecute and jail anyone caught with weed outside strict medical channels. Cannabis is headed back underground. No more open sales. No more smoke shops. From now on, it’s prescription-only—or it’s a crime.

 

 

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2025/06/25/cannabis-or-marijuana-again-going-underground-on-november-11-2025-after-ministers-order-signed-monday/

Best thing, fantastic..might be able to venture out safely at last..bye bye potheads, dopeheads..go somewhere else and smoke your rubbish.. yippee 

[DezLez]

2 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

when you apologise for your unfounded  insult to users of cannabis  "disgusting and obnoxious"

No chance as the smell is disgusting and obnoxious to non users.  FACT!

[Bday Prang]

Just now, baansgr said:

Best thing, fantastic..might be able to venture out safely at last..bye bye potheads, dopeheads..go somewhere else and smoke your rubbish.. yippee 

somebody like you would probably have trouble venturing out safely anywhere with an attitude like that. I suggest you take your mum with you.  Anyway don't get too excited 11th of november is a long way off and tomorrow never comes. Its  not going to happen

[Bday Prang]

2 minutes ago, DezLez said:

No chance as the smell is disgusting and obnoxious to non users.  FACT!

Not to the non users I know   FACT   perhaps to a few oversensitive souls on here   ( all 3 or 4 of them including you)

[Galong]

On 6/24/2025 at 1:04 PM, jvs said:

I think a lot of cannabis shops were opened to launder money,what is a better way to do this?

You open a shop(with illegal money made thru selling illegal Cannabis) and keep selling the same product legally .

Perfect!

That's a silly accusation with zero evidence. "What is a better way?" Gosh, almost anything. A bar should work just as well. Seriously, if you don't have ANY evidence, then please stop making unsubstantiated claims. 

[Bert got kinky]

7 minutes ago, baansgr said:

Best thing, fantastic..might be able to venture out safely at last..bye bye potheads, dopeheads..go somewhere else and smoke your rubbish.. yippee 

 

5 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

Not to the non users I know   FACT   perhaps to a few oversensitive souls on here   ( all 3 or 4 of them including you)

 

Agreed, in real life I have never met any of these whingers.

There must be some form of bravery that comes from taking pot shots on an anonymous forum.

 

 

 

[Bday Prang]

1 hour ago, Hummin said:

but never around public places and other tourists, and especially around families with children.

i don't get this obsession some members have with "families and children",  any body planning a trip to Thailand is fully aware of its reputation and so the ultra conservative types don't come here, in fact they don't actually exist except in the heads of those virtue signalling on their behalf

 Anyway I am sure there are many other sights that such sensitive people should be protected from

[Bday Prang]

2 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

 

Agreed, in real life I have never met any of these whingers.

There must be some form of bravery that comes from taking pot shots on an anonymous forum.

 

 

 

They are out in force here today Bert, must be raining everywhere

[twizzian]

The governments done more U-Turns than the whole of the countries road network has

[jvs]

13 minutes ago, Galong said:

That's a silly accusation with zero evidence. "What is a better way?" Gosh, almost anything. A bar should work just as well. Seriously, if you don't have ANY evidence, then please stop making unsubstantiated claims. 

I posted my "evidence" already.

Did i accuse anyone?

You did.

[BritManToo]

32 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

somebody like you would probably have trouble venturing out safely anywhere with an attitude like that. I suggest you take your mum with you.  Anyway don't get too excited 11th of november is a long way off and tomorrow never comes. Its  not going to happen

Last time it was Jan 1st.

Now it's Nov 11th.

 

But I cant see the Shin puppet government lasting that long.

[Hummin]

2 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

i don't get this obsession some members have with "families and children",  any body planning a trip to Thailand is fully aware of its reputation and so the ultra conservative types don't come here, in fact they don't actually exist except in the heads of those virtue signalling on their behalf

 Anyway I am sure there are many other sights that such sensitive people should be protected from

 

I'm trying to be nice here, explaining carefully, so you can understand.

 

Places who never experiences weed tourism, suddenly experience 1/3 of their customers smoking weed in public. That's the reality for some, and they do not dare to say anything, because they are afraid to lose customers. Talking about small businesses here. And at popular beaches, suddenly more than half smoking their spliffs in public. 

 

People do what they do in lack of consequences. Ignorance at its best.

 

Do you travel and experienced this by your  self, or you just stationary behind your desktop? 

 

I travel alot, and I have no reason to BS you or anyone else about the stupidity the smokers do their own freedom. Not mine, but your own interests. 

[shocky2012]

My popcorn’s ready.
 

Good luck enforcing that. The only thing this move is going to do is push everything online. Just today, I’ve already received messages from three shops on LINE offering delivery—business as usual.
 

I’m telling you, and anyone with common sense can see it from a mile away: this is going to get messy. You can’t just flip a switch and expect the entire industry to do a 180 overnight.

 

This isn’t a crackdown—it’s a chaos invitation.

 

[Bday Prang]

25 minutes ago, Hummin said:

 

I'm trying to be nice here, explaining carefully, so you can understand.

 

Places who never experiences weed tourism, suddenly experience 1/3 of their customers smoking weed in public. That's the reality for some, and they do not dare to say anything, because they are afraid to lose customers. Talking about small businesses here. And at popular beaches, suddenly more than half smoking their spliffs in public. 

 

People do what they do in lack of consequences. Ignorance at its best.

 

Do you travel and experienced this by your  self, or you just stationary behind your desktop? 

 

I travel alot, and I have no reason to BS you or anyone else about the stupidity the smokers do their own freedom. Not mine, but your own interests. 

your posts are becoming incoherent so  I won't be replying anymore

[Bday Prang]

On 6/24/2025 at 11:44 AM, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Most of the locals will no longer be able to easily access it though, and that is a big plus.

I doubt any Thais will have any trouble accessing their weed , and that's a bigger plus

[Hummin]

14 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

your posts are becoming incoherent so  I won't be replying anymore

Lame³

[TexasCowboy]

Doctors lobby must be strong in the land of smiles.  Somehow I don't see enough doctors to staff all the shops that have popped up.  Not sure there will be enough to write scripts and potentially be on the wrong side of the law at some point.  Obviously there will be one somewhere willing to sit in a shop in lab coat and pray on addicts.  There will be a line out the door.  1000baht per script will solve your glacoma.
Very surprised they ever allowed the mind altering substance in the first place....tough to have "right mind" if it is all messed up.
 

[shocky2012]

5 hours ago, paul1804 said:

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!!

 

If we’re talking about Thailand’s image and “high-spending” foreigners, are we really going to pretend that the guys who sit at the bar every morning with a beer in hand are somehow more respectable or desirable than someone walking into a cannabis shop?
 

If anything, the daily bar crowd does far more to damage the “classy tourist” vibe than a weed shop ever has. But because alcohol is socially accepted, no one bats an eye.
 

At the end of the day, it’s not about weed vs. tourism, it’s about how things are managed. You can have regulations without turning everything back into a black market overnight. That’s what common sense should actually look like.

But common sense is a rare thing here.

[Hummin]

59 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

 

Agreed, in real life I have never met any of these whingers.

There must be some form of bravery that comes from taking pot shots on an anonymous forum.

 

 

 

If you where the one who smoked your spliff on the ferry to Koh Kood last year up front in front of us, you would know who I was! 

 

 

 

[Nickcage49]

What a joke. They let all of these business people spend their money on opening shops all over Thailand, and now, 3 years later, they're going to pull the rug out from under them. If this happened in the US or any civilized country, there would be a massive class action suit. In the US, it would go to the Supreme Court, and the government would probably lose. This is appalling! 

[Hummin]

18 minutes ago, Hummin said:

If you where the one who smoked your spliff on the ferry to Koh Kood last year up front in front of us, you would know who I was! 

 

 

 

Just shows the iq level on some smokers, when you think you can smoke up front of people on the ferry on the way to an island. As well on the ferry pick up front, many did smoke among the families there. 

 

Again, this ignorance is way the government feel the need to do something about the situation. You guys are your worst enemy. 

 

Giving me multiple negative responses doesn't help your situation. Pure basics 

 

 

 

[Hummin]

47 minutes ago, Nickcage49 said:

What a joke. They let all of these business people spend their money on opening shops all over Thailand, and now, 3 years later, they're going to pull the rug out from under them. If this happened in the US or any civilized country, there would be a massive class action suit. In the US, it would go to the Supreme Court, and the government would probably lose. This is appalling! 

Obviously nobody cared about the origin regulations, which was clear to most sober people. 

 

High THC was still not allowed, neither recreational use. Smoking in general also had strict rules, so who's fault is it? 

 

Those who bending the rules, or the police who didn't have the mandate or resources to make sure the rules was followed? 

 

So many excuses 

[Bert got kinky]

50 minutes ago, Hummin said:

If you where the one who smoked your spliff on the ferry to Koh Kood last year up front in front of us, you would know who I was! 

 

 

 

 

Did you get filled in for being a whinging gob<deleted>e?

 

[MarkBR]

4 hours ago, madone said:

no, a lab coat will suffice

Yippee, I have a lab coat.  New career approacheth