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Thailand forces closure of more than 1000 cannabis stores

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Just now, Bday Prang said:

probably the reason why your trolling is tolerated

 

If you do not have something to reply regarding the proposed new regulations and criminalization why bother replying with lame responses ? Stay on the task or leave it 

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  • Again and again, cracking down on anything foreign-related in the first place. Cannabis shops in Pattaya, night venues, foreign owned bank accounts, foreign owned property, innumerous visa rule change

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your constant insistence regarding the illegality of cannabis has nothing to do with any regulations.   And just to remind you , you are not a moderator.   so stop issuing instructions,  

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@Hummin Just like you didn't appreciate someone telling you in front of your wife, that she would leave as soon as your money ran out, you might understand that you repeating the same nonsense over and over again, may annoy some here.

But you appear to revel in it. Perhaps the person saying the things in front of your wife also revelled in rubbing your face in it and this is your revenge.

Nothing is going to change for most people who wish to use cannabis. Most here probably use it discreetly, so your standing on a soapbox here is totally out of place. You just make yourself look like a ranting nutter. This is from a neutral point of view, wondering why you are still here when you are obviously not wanted. It's actually just really weird. It doesn't change a thing, especially if you are suggesting that people here have been stupid, without you having even a shred of evidence of even a single person doing something out of line.

A bit like someone suggesting your woman was only with you for your money. You must be a handsome specimen if he thought that.

Of course we all know that yours is different. But it was still annoying to you wasn't it? So maybe the people here are different and don't take kindly to you calling them stupid. You'll need to accept that you are the one with a (mental) problem, eventually.

2 hours ago, Hummin said:

Chinese or Indian? Same for Thais who finds us as much annoying as we do of the groups above. 

in your case that's understandable,   and of course you can only speak for yourself

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9 minutes ago, JakeC said:

@Hummin Just like you didn't appreciate someone telling you in front of your wife, that she would leave as soon as your money ran out, you might understand that you repeating the same nonsense over and over again, may annoy some here.

But you appear to revel in it. Perhaps the person saying the things in front of your wife also revelled in rubbing your face in it and this is your revenge.

Nothing is going to change for most people who wish to use cannabis. Most here probably use it discreetly, so your standing on a soapbox here is totally out of place. You just make yourself look like a ranting nutter. This is from a neutral point of view, wondering why you are still here when you are obviously not wanted. It's actually just really weird. It'doesn't change a thing, especially if you are suggesting that people here have been stupid without you having any evidence of even a single person doing someting out of line.

A bit someone suggesting your woman was only with you for your money. You mush be a handsome specimen if he thought that.

Of course we all know that yours is different. But it was still annoying to you wasn't it? So maybe the people here are different and don't take kindly to you calling them stupid. You'll need to accept that you are the one with a (mental) problem, eventually.

very well said indeed

Just now, JakeC said:

@Hummin Just like you didn't appreciate someone telling you in front of your wife, that she would leave as soon as your money ran out, you might understand that you repeating the same nonsense over and over again, may annoy some here.

But you appear to revel in it. Perhaps the person saying the things in front of your wife also revelled in rubbing your face in it and this is your revenge.

Nothing is going to change for most people who wish to use cannabis. Most here probably use it discreetly, so your standing on a soapbox here is totally out of place. You just make yourself look like a ranting nutter. This is from a neutral point of view, wondering why you are still here when you are obviously not wanted.

 

I think I said my in this case, have a nice day Jake, it is up the thai authorities. 

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

as opposed to your "ignorance at its worst"

And here you are still, I thought you put me on the ignore list?

 

 

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@Hummin I agree. So hopefully we won't see another of your posts here. Next time, tighten up your testicles and actually speak to the people who are offending you by smoking in public, rather than coming here and anonymously attacking people.

2 hours ago, Hummin said:

And here you are still, I thought you put me on the ignore list?

 

 

I have never put anybody on the ignore list,  I find idiots very entertaining,  

3 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

I have never put anybody on the ignore list,  I find idiots very entertaining,  

Says a lot about you. Call me out as a troll? Nice try 

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I visited a large cannabis shop - their menu has 139 flower options - in Bangkok mid-Sukhumvit, and can report that at this shop there is no requirement for a medical card, medical exam, or prescription. No limits on quantity, no ID required.

 

I think we're still in the - now rolling - 30-60 day pause first initiated on June 28, 2025. So things are as they always were.

 

 

 

13 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

I visited a large cannabis shop - their menu has 139 flower options - in Bangkok mid-Sukhumvit, and can report that at this shop there is no requirement for a medical card, medical exam, or prescription. No limits on quantity, no ID required.

 

I think we're still in the - now rolling - 30-60 day pause first initiated on June 28, 2025. So things are as they always were.

 

 

 

There is no longer any 30 day pause ! There NEVER was a law former freak Health Minister aka Thaksin puppet is home crying in his beer right now. Ignore the A$$ and smoke! Everywhere I have gone and or ordered ZERO has changed and never did.

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On 9/17/2025 at 10:52 AM, JakeC said:

@Hummin I agree. So hopefully we won't see another of your posts here. Next time, tighten up your testicles and actually speak to the people who are offending you by smoking in public, rather than coming here and anonymously attacking people.

I have done a few times, so do not worry about me and mine. It’s all about timing, and knowing where you are. Goes both ways. 

 

Since you do not smoke in public why do you care so much about what I say? Im stating ignorant pot heads is trouble for the overall tourism in and the view of expats in Thailand, and Thai people, other tourist and expats who do not smoke do not like it. Get over it 

Goodness @Hummin Are you back again? Why the obsession with cannabis? Is there nothing else going on in your life at the moment? Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest. Why don't you try that instead? Put your mind at rest. You just seem to go to this thread to look for trouble. You seem like the ignorant one to me. Prove otherwise by just stopping this silly behaviour of just looking to insult people. Writing as if you are the view of expats in Thailand and Thai people. It's just idiotic. I know of normal Thai people upcountry who use it in edible form. They might not talk to you about it as you seem so up yourself. Get over it and move on. You are just impotent and raging, no power to change anything. So you just return again and again to write exactly the same nonsense. Can you not see that it's a mental issue within yourself?

 

Imagine going to a dinner party each week and there the same person is ranting about the same thing every time. Would you not see that person as a crashing bore and seek to avoid them?

 

You made your point, so now move on. Everyone knows your view, so why return to this thread to write exactly the same things as before? 

 

5 minutes ago, JakeC said:

Goodness @Hummin Are you back again? Why the obsession with cannabis? Is there nothing else going on in your life at the moment? Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest. Why don't you try that instead? Put your mind at rest. You just seem to go to this thread to look for trouble. You seem like the ignorant one to me. Prove otherwise by just stopping this silly behaviour of just looking to insult people. Writing as if you are the view of expats in Thailand and Thai people. It's just idiotic. I know of normal Thai people upcountry who use it in edible form. They might not talk to you about it as you seem so up yourself. Get over it and move on. You are just impotent and raging, no power to change anything. So you just return again and again to write exactly the same nonsense. Can you not see that it's a mental issue within yourself?

 

Well you continue to reply to me, I didn’t see that reply before I woke up today. This is the dynamic of the forum, you insult me, I say may mind and that’s where you come short, not willing to see the problem. Actually what is your real problem with my opinion’s?

 

I have told people to not smoke in public when it concerns me and my, and you call me out as an anonymous coward. If I sit in a restaurant and eating, and they’re is clear it is a smoke free table and area, I do tell them, do not worry, but it seems nobody care anymore, even cigarette smokers. 

 

 

@Hummin I didn't continue to reply to you. I advised you to stop making a fool of yourself, many days ago. But you seem to want to insist, so carry on. Be your guest 😊 You are just lowering your own standing. Who is agreeing with you? No one. Because the people with whom you are annoyed, are not here. Get it? Find those people and go to annoy them, KW.

 

I have the opposite experience to you. Even if I am sitting outside, if I am eating and someone nearby begins to light up, I speak to them and they stop or get up and move away from the restaurant. It's obviously down to the way you communicate. I speak to their conscience.

3 minutes ago, JakeC said:

@Hummin I didn't continue to reply to you. I advised you to stop making a fool of yourself, many days ago. But you seem to want to insist, so carry on. Be your guest 😊 You are just lowering your own standing. Who is agreeing with you? No one. Because the people with whom you are annoyed, are not here. Get it? Find those people and go to annoy them, KW.

You got a nice way to express you concerns for me 😉 As said, I first read it today. And you think nobody agrees with me? Well that’s your opinion in a weed topic in the section of weed for special interested at a forum. Im totally okay with some gets annoyed and feel I’m a prick, no problem. Most smokers whatever they smokes gets annoyed by being told not to smoke at places they shouldn’t, and didn’t expect anything more here. People do what they wants to, if there is no consequences. 

 

Have a good Sunday JakeC enjoy your spliffs In privacy 

 

n I agree. So hopefully we won't see another of your posts here. Next time, tighten up your testicles and actually speak to the people who are offending you by smoking in public, rather than coming here and anonymously attacking people

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9 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Im totally okay with some gets annoyed and feel I’m a prick, no problem.

I'm glad you agree with us!

3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I'm glad you agree with us!

Do you allow me to feel the same about those who smoke in public? And also maybe there where something wrong with the way the legalization come along, and how it have been? Because that’s what it is all about. Right ? So if I have to be the prick calling out the elephant in the room, then be it. 

 

And as far I know, you do not smoke in public do you ?

@Hummin What you fail to see is that the Elephant In The Room, appears to be signs of your mental illness. I'm not joking.

There you are writing about me smoking spliffs. Where have you ever seen me writing about doing that? I can tell you, not ever.

So you are just creating scenarios in your mind and then attacking people with them. That is a mental abberation.

There are people drinking and whoring all day long around, but it doesn't even enter my mental space. Whereas this subject appears to have consumed you to the point wherein you are insulting strangers who are merely pointing out the fact that you are behaving in a deranged manner.

Just now, JakeC said:

@Hummin What you fail to see is that the Elephant In The Room, appears to be signs of your mental illness. I'm not joking.

There you are writing about me smoking spliffs. Where have you ever seen me writing about doing that? I can tell you, not ever.

So you are just creating scenarios in your mind and then attacking people with them. That is a mental abberation.

There are people drinking and whoring all day long around, but it doesn't even enter my mental space. Whereas this subject appears to have consumed you to the point wherein you are insulting strangers who are merely pointing out the fact that you are behaving in a deranged manner.

Oh my, my mental health now? Okay, I backing off to give you the peace of mind. 

 

Have a good Sunday Jake. Sorry for disturbing your life with my opinions about a problem Thailand facing because of ignorance and ignorant weed tourism and expats who ruin for themselves and a lausy business established on false premises. 

 

Im sorry, 

1 hour ago, Hummin said:

Oh my, my mental health now? Okay, I backing off to give you the peace of mind. 

 

Have a good Sunday Jake. Sorry for disturbing your life with my opinions about a problem Thailand facing because of ignorance and ignorant weed tourism and expats who ruin for themselves and a lausy business established on false premises. 

 

Im sorry, 

 

Hummin, you’ve spent 20 odd posts saying the exact same thing: “what’s the law and what’s enforced are two different things.” Congratulations, you’ve just described Thailand, not uncovered some hidden conspiracy. That’s how it works here, always has, always will.

 

You complain shops opened on shaky ground. True. You complain the government is clumsy and political. True. You complain about selective enforcement. True again. But none of that is news to anyone who has actually lived here longer than a visa run.

 

The bottom line is simple: recreational cannabis was never made legal, only medical under rules. The shops gambled, the government let it run, now they’re pulling it back. End of story. Everything you’ve been ranting about boils down to that one line.

 

So after dozens of posts, the “big revelation” is that Thailand is inconsistent and muddled in how it makes and enforces rules. Thanks, but we already knew. The rest is just you spinning your wheels. That’s Thailand, always has been, always will be. There’s no mystery here, and nothing left for you to explain. Welcome to the real world in Thailand. Best to understand and accept it like the everyone else has and move on. 

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19 minutes ago, Alpha84 said:

The bottom line is simple: recreational cannabis was never made legal, only medical under rules.

 

This is incorrect.

 

The production, sale, possession, and personal/recreational use of cannabis flower has been legal since 9 June 2022.

 

Medical use was legalized in 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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You guys need to ignore the one who seems nothing more than a troll. Have some good coffee light up and enjoy your morning. He reminds me of the last wacky Health Minister Dr. Doom

On 8/26/2025 at 6:17 AM, juice777 said:

I'm thinking of coming back to Thailand in early September but only if I can smoke weed without any problems and without a doctor certificate can someone tell me if I still can I thought it was November the 11th it was all changing or something.

the doctors certificate is a scam in itself and should be of no concern to you. Most shops will supply you with the place to go if they have not already secured a certificate elsewhere. Stop worrying. Come back to Thailand and smoke your brains out.

On 9/21/2025 at 10:49 AM, Hummin said:

and Thai people, other tourist and expats who do not smoke do not like it.

 How do you know that? Have you done street interviews or an online poll or something?

Whenever I give up smoking weed, I love the smell of a joint. I've heard people who've never smoked say the same thing. I haven't smoke tobacco for years but the smell of a joint is always quite pleasant to me.

 

But...I do understand and accept that some people don't like it.

 

36 minutes ago, SenorTashi said:

 How do you know that? Have you done street interviews or an online poll or something?

Whenever I give up smoking weed, I love the smell of a joint. I've heard people who've never smoked say the same thing. I haven't smoke tobacco for years but the smell of a joint is always quite pleasant to me.

 

But...I do understand and accept that some people don't like it.

 

Comes with the territory, and if you paid attention to the few reports available in thai English media, you would know, and also do have some various Thai friends who follow Thai news, they would tell you.

 

There have been a few available pills also shared in the different topics. 

 

 

here in kamala, phuket i have seen 1 shop shut its door , yet 3 others opened

21 hours ago, Hummin said:

if you have some Thai friends

Nope. The main interaction I have with Thais is them giving me the evil eye over their mask. 

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