Just noticing over the last few weeks how quiet things have become. As far as I can tell from everywhere I have traveled away from the foreigner hangouts have seen zero changes. Now that another Thaksin family member has been told to hit the road as I predicted. Where does this leave the so called Health Minister and his ( announcements) NOT laws that he created that were never voted on ? Anutin will very likely now put a halt the the ganja chaos and everything will go back to normal as always.

 

 

Auntin will take over top position
no more worries about weed

let the good times roll

40 minutes ago, zzzzz said:

Auntin will take over top position

Hope not. Lets remember that when the PM was dismissed yesterday so was her entire cabinet meaning Somsak the rogue heath minister is gone. Good riddance, now lets get on with life again. 

That is my hunch . Time To Light UP!

Hopefully some of the smaller shops that had to shut down can figure out a way to get back in business. This industry adds value to the economy.

8 minutes ago, Galong said:

Hopefully some of the smaller shops that had to shut down can figure out a way to get back in business. This industry adds value to the economy.

You are correct Uncle Fester . Have a good day.

My local weed shop (NOT in a tourist area) has just done a re-furb and opened up again yesterday - clearly they are not worried about their longevity

5 minutes ago, nglodnig said:

My local weed shop (NOT in a tourist area) has just done a re-furb and opened up again yesterday - clearly they are not worried about their longevity

Same in my remote village. Nothing has changed.

7 hours ago, zzzzz said:

Auntin will take over top position
no more worries about weed

let the good times roll

 

 

Just thinking exactly the same thing........ if he gets back into power, it's all on again......... land of flip-flops

 

I went through the doctor's prescription process earlier this week and it was so ridiculous. It was a video call from my phone and cost 400 baht, but was free by purchasing more than 1,000 baht of weed.

The doctor was a Thai traditional doctor and talking to me while standing in a busy hall of a traditional medicine facility. I felt a little sorry for her because she seemed like a serious medical person, but I guess she got a little extra money out of the ritual. She asked if I was on any other meds and what I needed it for and that was it.

7 hours ago, zzzzz said:

Auntin will take over top position
no more worries about weed

let the good times roll

The minority of you guys celebrating 🥳 

 

while the rest of us hope it will never hit the public eyes again, and continue keeping it privately. It become a plague for the rest of us who do not smoke

12 minutes ago, Hummin said:

The minority of you guys celebrating 🥳 

 

while the rest of us hope it will never hit the public eyes again, and continue keeping it privately. It become a plague for the rest of us who do not smoke

Why do you think smoking weed is a plague?

3 minutes ago, Trippy said:

Why do you think smoking weed is a plague?

After the decriminalizing weed is being smoked in public, and no matter it is cigarettes or weed, it is a plague when it is used in public restaurants, bars, and other places weed or cigarettes is usually is or should be regulated. 

 

Again, weed was not legalized for public or recreational use, but still some of you guys still think it is or where 

1 minute ago, Hummin said:

After the decriminalizing weed is being smoked in public, and no matter it is cigarettes or weed, it is a plague when it is used in public restaurants, bars, and other places weed or cigarettes is usually is or should be regulated. 

 

Again, weed was not legalized for public or recreational use, but still some of you guys still think it is or where 

Ok, I guess we have 2 different definitions of a plague. But yes people should be more considerate of others when they smoke anything. 

1 hour ago, Hummin said:

The minority of you guys celebrating 🥳 

 

while the rest of us hope it will never hit the public eyes again, and continue keeping it privately. It become a plague for the rest of us who do not smoke

Lets get rid of booze ok?

45 minutes ago, Mitkof Island said:

Lets get rid of booze ok?

I wouldn't mind drinking in designed areas or outside public and not disturbing those who do not enjoy alcohol. 

 

Not that important to me, and most of the year I'm not drinking at all. 

1 hour ago, Hummin said:

After the decriminalizing weed is being smoked in public, and no matter it is cigarettes or weed, it is a plague when it is used in public restaurants, bars, and other places weed or cigarettes is usually is or should be regulated. 

 

Again, weed was not legalized for public or recreational use, but still some of you guys still think it is or where 

 

Let’s be honest. You keep exaggerating this issue and posting about it, but the reality on the ground does not match your complaints. I live in Bangkok in a busy middle class Thai neighborhood filled with restaurants and bars. I almost never see or smell cannabis being smoked in public. The only time I notice it is in a handful of nightlife districts that mainly tourists and expats frequent, and those spots represent only a tiny fraction of the city.

 

Outside of those places, most of Bangkok and almost all of Thailand is free from the smell you keep talking about. And many people who use cannabis, like myself, do not even smoke it, they consume it in other forms that create no smell at all. If we measured the percentage of land in Thailand where foreigners might be openly smoking and creating the troublesome smell you speak of, it would not even come close to one percent of the country's total area.

 

Yes, technically smoking in public is not permitted, but that is an issue of enforcement, not evidence of any plague as you call it. The reality is that you are making a big drama out of something very minor.

 

Your complaints also ring hollow because you are not living here full time and don't really know what's it like throughout the country. For those of us who do, it is clear this is not the problem you are trying to paint it as. If you want to avoid the smell, the solution is simple: stay away from the few heavily touristed islands, costal beach areas and nightlife zones when you come and you will hardly ever encounter it, if at all. 

 

And if the real concern is about chemical substances causing problems in Thailand, cannabis should be the last thing on the list. Alcohol is heavily responsible for violence, domestic abuse, road accidents, and countless deaths in Thailand. Meth and other hard drugs also destroy lives every day. Cannabis does not even register on the same scale.

 

So let’s call this what it is: a personal dislike that you keep trying to blow up into a public crisis. The rest of us who actually live here know it is not one.

 

At some point, repeating the same complaint over and over when the reality does not support it just becomes noise. Cannabis use is not going to disappear because a handful of people keep crying about it. If you want to talk about real problems in Thailand, there are many worth discussing, but the smell of cannabis in a few tourist districts is not one of them. Time to accept that and move on.

27 minutes ago, FriscoKid said:

 

Let’s be honest. You keep exaggerating this issue and posting about it, but the reality on the ground does not match your complaints. I live in Bangkok in a busy middle class Thai neighborhood filled with restaurants and bars. I almost never see or smell cannabis being smoked in public. The only time I notice it is in a handful of nightlife districts that mainly tourists and expats frequent, and those spots represent only a tiny fraction of the city.

 

Outside of those places, most of Bangkok and almost all of Thailand is free from the smell you keep talking about. And many people who use cannabis, like myself, do not even smoke it, they consume it in other forms that create no smell at all. If we measured the percentage of land in Thailand where foreigners might be openly smoking and creating the troublesome smell you speak of, it would not even come close to one percent of the country's total area.

 

Yes, technically smoking in public is not permitted, but that is an issue of enforcement, not evidence of any plague as you call it. The reality is that you are making a big drama out of something very minor.

 

Your complaints also ring hollow because you are not living here full time and don't really know what's it like throughout the country. For those of us who do, it is clear this is not the problem you are trying to paint it as. If you want to avoid the smell, the solution is simple: stay away from the few heavily touristed islands, costal beach areas and nightlife zones when you come and you will hardly ever encounter it, if at all. 

 

And if the real concern is about chemical substances causing problems in Thailand, cannabis should be the last thing on the list. Alcohol is heavily responsible for violence, domestic abuse, road accidents, and countless deaths in Thailand. Meth and other hard drugs also destroy lives every day. Cannabis does not even register on the same scale.

 

So let’s call this what it is: a personal dislike that you keep trying to blow up into a public crisis. The rest of us who actually live here know it is not one.

 

At some point, repeating the same complaint over and over when the reality does not support it just becomes noise. Cannabis use is not going to disappear because a handful of people keep crying about it. If you want to talk about real problems in Thailand, there are many worth discussing, but the smell of cannabis in a few tourist districts is not one of them. Time to accept that and move on.

If it wasn't a problem, we wouldn't had this argument about the imaginated "legalization" now would we?

 

As said many times, the weed users are their own worst enemy, not me who for the moment is not living in Thailand, but still spend most of my time there travelling, and experience myself how far south this went for your buddies who want to smoke and use cannabis legally. 

 

I never had a problem with smokers when I went to those Islands and their facilities, and never complained in a Rasta Beach Bar and someone smoked next to me.

 

Now lately it have escalated in to facilities that never ever experienced smokers, and that's where you and me disagree. 

 

Especially when there is families around with kids I am provoked, and the owners are thais who do not confront or want any negativity going on, do nothing about it

15 minutes ago, Hummin said:

If it wasn't a problem, we wouldn't had this argument about the imaginated "legalization" now would we?

 

As said many times, the weed users are their own worst enemy, not me who for the moment is not living in Thailand, but still spend most of my time there travelling, and experience myself how far south this went for your buddies who want to smoke and use cannabis legally. 

 

I never had a problem with smokers when I went to those Islands and their facilities, and never complained in a Rasta Beach Bar and someone smoked next to me.

 

Now lately it have escalated in to facilities that never ever experienced smokers, and that's where you and me disagree. 

 

Especially when there is families around with kids I am provoked, and the owners are thais who do not confront or want any negativity going on, do nothing about it

 

It clearly isn’t a problem. You are applying circular logic to continue to try and build momentum for something that is almost a total non-issue. The only reason this keeps coming up is because you keep insisting on turning your personal dislike into a public display of crisis on this forum. That doesn’t make it real. For those of us living here full time, it is obvious this is not the widespread issue you claim. Families, locals, and the majority of tourists go about their lives without being affected. I live here full time and have no problem avoiding it in public, so why should you? In fact, if I actually wanted to find it in public, I’d have to go out of my way into a few specific nightlife areas that I normally don’t visit. That’s the reality, and anything beyond that is just noise. End of story.

1 hour ago, FriscoKid said:

 

It clearly isn’t a problem. You are applying circular logic to continue to try and build momentum for something that is almost a total non-issue. The only reason this keeps coming up is because you keep insisting on turning your personal dislike into a public display of crisis on this forum. That doesn’t make it real. For those of us living here full time, it is obvious this is not the widespread issue you claim. Families, locals, and the majority of tourists go about their lives without being affected. I live here full time and have no problem avoiding it in public, so why should you? In fact, if I actually wanted to find it in public, I’d have to go out of my way into a few specific nightlife areas that I normally don’t visit. That’s the reality, and anything beyond that is just noise. End of story.

I continue reading you do not see it as a problem, many thais and tourists see it as a problem, and I think I know my places where I have been traveling for 25 years maybe better than you. 

 

 

3 hours ago, Hummin said:

I continue reading you do not see it as a problem, many thais and tourists see it as a problem, and I think I know my places where I have been traveling for 25 years maybe better than you. 

 

 

You are still not making any substantive points. Everything you have said is anecdotal. You have not identified any locations at all where this is genuinely a problem in Thailand, and if you did, they would almost certainly be the usual tourist beaches and nightlife areas. Your personal dislike or your Thai friends’ dislike does not make it a plague as you called it. In reality, less than one percent of places in Thailand are affected by foreigners smoking weed in public. In those same areas you will also find people drinking, being loud, acting unruly, and sometimes fighting, all related to alcohol consumption. These are places that most people in the country simply avoid, as I do.

 

If you want to keep moaning about it, go ahead, but you are in a very small minority, unlikely to find any sympathy, and you have not proven that this is a real issue beyond your own sensitivities. If it bothers you that much, the solution is simple: travel somewhere else where beaches and nightlife are guaranteed to stay within your comfort zone, which is more than 99% of the country, and spare everyone else your exaggerated complaints.

16 minutes ago, FriscoKid said:

You are still not making any substantive points. Everything you have said is anecdotal. You have not identified any locations at all where this is genuinely a problem in Thailand, and if you did, they would almost certainly be the usual tourist beaches and nightlife areas. Your personal dislike or your Thai friends’ dislike does not make it a plague as you called it. In reality, less than one percent of places in Thailand are affected by foreigners smoking weed in public. In those same areas you will also find people drinking, being loud, acting unruly, and sometimes fighting, all related to alcohol consumption. These are places that most people in the country simply avoid, as I do.

 

If you want to keep moaning about it, go ahead, but you are in a very small minority, unlikely to find any sympathy, and you have not proven that this is a real issue beyond your own sensitivities. If it bothers you that much, the solution is simple: travel somewhere else where beaches and nightlife are guaranteed to stay within your comfort zone, and spare everyone else your exaggerated complaints.

 

If you paid attention to news and what people actually feel about the ganja business you would know, but I guess your arrogance prevent you from being rational, same as your post above. As you have noticed, I have more than once made my opinion clear what I feel, and where I have experienced the conflicts when it comes to arrogant and ignorant smokers. If you can accept my opinion, check for yourself opinion polls, what the tourist operators says, and what the true feeling of politicians who is dealing with the chaotic so-called «legalization» as you all believed and still believe it is, 

 

Again you guys are your own worst enemy, not me

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2795595/poll-most-support-relisting-cannabis-as-narcotic

 

When it comes to my personal experiences it have been Koh Kood, Koh Mak, Hua Hin, Koh Phayam, to my surprise Koh Phangan was the more civilized place, Ao Nang, and there was smoking at the ferry terminals, at the ferries, restaurants bars beaches next to other people, and not any backpacker dumps like some would like to believe. 

 

Expats smoking outside entrance to cicada a famous tourist marked? Where Local Thai and tourists frequently visits with their families and kids?

Enforce smoking in public laws. Meaning smoke in YOUR own home. Meaning by my hunch your home ALONE NOT OUTSIDE! I do not like it either. Nor do I enjoy seeing drunk foreigners outside which is much more common than stoners.

AFAIK, we're still in a 30-60 day "pause" in the proposed regulations associated with moving to a more strict medical-only scenario.

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1365076-thailand-delays-some-requirements-of-new-cannabis-rules/

 

So, in theory, nothing has changed, other than some sparse enforcement of previously enacted rules (proper licensing, public consumption, etc.)

 

No scary stories about mobs of cannabis-infused youths roaming the streets and murdering elderly relatives

 

And no "medical studies" saying that cannabis causes every malady known to modern medicine.

 

Much, much bigger issues to deal with, ten to twenty real public health crises to manage.

 

 

 

The current Health Minister will very likely get the boot. Proposed Regulations ( Not Law) I will remind everyone.

30 minutes ago, bamnutsak said:

AFAIK, we're still in a 30-60 day "pause" in the proposed regulations associated with moving to a more strict medical-only scenario.

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1365076-thailand-delays-some-requirements-of-new-cannabis-rules/

 

So, in theory, nothing has changed, other than some sparse enforcement of previously enacted rules (proper licensing, public consumption, etc.)

 

No scary stories about mobs of cannabis-infused youths roaming the streets and murdering elderly relatives

 

And no "medical studies" saying that cannabis causes every malady known to modern medicine.

 

Much, much bigger issues to deal with, ten to twenty real public health crises to manage.

 

 

 

Government has gone, backdated to 1st July, so ALL cannabis restrictions now cancelled.

Was down on Sukhumvit last week. All the tourist weed shops open when I'd passed by. No customers as usual,  no idea what's going on inside. Just reporting 

 

No visual change

9 hours ago, Hummin said:

 

If you paid attention to news and what people actually feel about the ganja business you would know, but I guess your arrogance prevent you from being rational, same as your post above. As you have noticed, I have more than once made my opinion clear what I feel, and where I have experienced the conflicts when it comes to arrogant and ignorant smokers. If you can accept my opinion, check for yourself opinion polls, what the tourist operators says, and what the true feeling of politicians who is dealing with the chaotic so-called «legalization» as you all believed and still believe it is, 

 

Again you guys are your own worst enemy, not me

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2795595/poll-most-support-relisting-cannabis-as-narcotic

 

When it comes to my personal experiences it have been Koh Kood, Koh Mak, Hua Hin, Koh Phayam, to my surprise Koh Phangan was the more civilized place, Ao Nang, and there was smoking at the ferry terminals, at the ferries, restaurants bars beaches next to other people, and not any backpacker dumps like some would like to believe. 

 

Expats smoking outside entrance to cicada a famous tourist marked? Where Local Thai and tourists frequently visits with their families and kids?

Frisco only understands his perspective. He is part of the problem and his arrogant attitude is what provokes other non-weed smokers.  His aguments above are silly at best. 

 

I smoke weed but don't feel the need to do it around people that don't.  Frisco is the type that ruins it for thsoe that just want to relax and indulge on occation or often for that matter.  I wish his type would just move on to the heavier stuff and fade away while I smoke a doobie at peace with myself and respect  others.

 

Is it really too hard for  Frisco to get off his high horse and simply expect smokers to be considerate.

 

 

More than a few times lately when I had to visit Hua Hin witnessed more than a few times typical foreigner with bar girl smoking right outside shop on main street before 10 am. No issues giving them a nice 5,000 baht fine every time.

On 8/30/2025 at 4:24 PM, Hummin said:

The minority of you guys celebrating 🥳 

 

while the rest of us hope it will never hit the public eyes again, and continue keeping it privately. It become a plague for the rest of us who do not smoke

A plague ? Rubbish. Cannabis induces calm and thoughtfulness, unlike alcohol which induces adggression and stupidity. The aroma of cannabis is pleasant, unlike cigarette smoke which is disgusting.