6 hours ago, JakeC said:

Struggling to follow you on this one @Hummin

Seems more like a mad rant than a sensible discussion.

Accusing people en masse of being responsible for possible recriminalisation.

Not unlike the extreme right wingers here that see everyone else as being on the Left.

You need to find balance or your thinking will do you in.

 

Clearly only me who have a problem, so thank you for clearing that up.

 

 

6 hours ago, blaze master said:

 

Do you drink coffee in the morning ? 

 

Seriously ? Yes, of course, and also a bottle of wine when we dining out, A few line of coke when I hang out with old friends, and  few valium to calm down at Sundays? Just a normal weed if you ask me

 

 

3 minutes ago, Hummin said:

 

Seriously ? Yes, of course, and also a bottle of wine when we dining out, A few line of coke when I hang out with old friends, and  few valium to calm down at Sundays? Just a normal weed if you ask me

 

 

 

I see you're not actually serious about discussing these things.

 

Carry on. 

7 hours ago, blaze master said:

 

 

Ahhh the good old gateway myth pops up again. 

For my sister its definitely not a myth

Just now, angryguy said:

For my sister its definitely not a myth

 

Thats unfortunate but not the norm. 

On 8/31/2025 at 4:40 PM, hankypankee said:

1 - Cannabis: Prescribed for medical use for health conditions such as chronic pain, muscle spasms, multiple sclerosis related symptoms, nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy, poor appetite and weight loss from hiv or cancer, epilepsy and seizure disorders, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, glaucoma, crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome, parkinson’s disease symptoms, tourette syndrome, and autism spectrum disorder related symptoms.

 

2 - Alcohol: No known medical uses and never medically prescribed for any reason. Long term use is known to cause liver cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis, fatty liver disease, liver cancer, pancreatitis, stomach ulcers, esophageal cancer, mouth cancer, throat cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, cardiomyopathy, high blood pressure, stroke, alcohol use disorder, and brain damage including wernicke korsakoff syndrome, cognitive decline and dementia. 

 

21 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Do they pee test every single driver who gets pulled over?

There is no pee test, just swipe your tongue with a plastic gadget a few times 

On 9/1/2025 at 4:42 AM, rice555 said:

Who gives a rats ass what happens in OZ, this is LOS!

 

guys live in thailand 10 years, then move back home and still try to control the country from their home country. 

 

20 hours ago, Hummin said:

 

Seriously ? Yes, of course, and also a bottle of wine when we dining out, A few line of coke when I hang out with old friends, and  few valium to calm down at Sundays? Just a normal weed if you ask me

 

 

 

You're an absolute idiot criticizing use of weed and then promoting the use of a much harder and more addictive and dangerous drug on here.

My sister in law's brother used cocaine. Got heavily addicted, blew his life savings, wife left him, always asking family for money, in and out of rehab, a total screwed up life. 

 

On 9/1/2025 at 1:23 AM, Hummin said:

No other legal substance have been controlled more than alcohol and still legal and available for most. 

 

Yes, alcohol is even heavily promoted. It's used in all celebrations. 

 

Doesn't change the fact that for about 5% of the population, it causes drunk driving deaths, date rape, wife beatings, bar brawls, and violent altercations that would otherwise have been avoided. 

 

But banning it hasn't worked in the past. It creates a black market where gangsters try to run it. 

And anyway, you would be punishing the 95% of people who actually use it responsibly and benefit from it. 

I understand alcohol is helpful to alleviate stress ... and I enjoy it too, but since I gave up a bunch of other junk food, I also gave up alcohol because to me it's just another junk food in my body. 

 

I do miss it. I had a beer the other night, but it's not a regular habit. 

 

Why don't you go sit in the corner, shortpants? 

 

 

I was a smoker for many years but I very rarely smoked more than a couple of times a week, it was fantastic for concerts, dancing and certain other pleasures that became enhanced with the use of good weed, but I simply got to a point about 25 years ago where I was no longer enjoying it, and half the time I was stoned I wished I was sober. At that point I realized it was time to leave it behind. 

 

One thing that's always puzzled me about daily smokers is that sobriety then becomes somewhat unique, and being stoned is the norm, and what fun is there in that? 

 

The only bad effects that I experienced from smoking were memory loss and a minor lack of ambition. I say to each his own, if it works for you go for it, and society has no business in trying to control it. Thailand was moving in the right direction for a minute there, but the nitwits decided to engage in more acts of regression. 

17 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

You're an absolute idiot criticizing use of weed and then promoting the use of a much harder and more addictive and dangerous drug on here.

My sister in law's brother used cocaine. Got heavily addicted, blew his life savings, wife left him, always asking family for money, in and out of rehab, a total screwed up life. 

 

You become my biggest fan, thank you, you made my day. You are one of the best members here, always thoughtful and valid opinions 

22 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

guys live in thailand 10 years, then move back home and still try to control the country from their home country. 

 

I'm still living 4-6 months in Thailand, just to let you know, 

10 hours ago, Hummin said:

I'm still living 4-6 months in Thailand, just to let you know, 

 

Ok, so my post is irrelevant and does not apply to you at all. Post retracted. 

On 9/1/2025 at 8:27 PM, blaze master said:

 

I see you're not actually serious about discussing these things.

 

Carry on. 

Nobody here is willing to discuss, not you, not anyone who this concerns at all. 

 

This is what we talking about spineless individuals who do not care about anything than themselves and their needs. Whatever you say that doesn't meet their own views, is ridiculed. Not one common sense Post is produced by one toker here! One admitted smoking in public is bad for everyone who wants this freedom to smoke recreationally without hassle. One only, and the rest of you trying to silence the messenger! Well done, 

 

Again good luck

 

 

 

21 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Nobody here is willing to discuss, not you, not anyone who this concerns at all. 

 

This is what we talking about spineless individuals who do not care about anything than themselves and their needs. Whatever you say that doesn't meet their own views, is ridiculed. Not one common sense Post is produced by one toker here! One admitted smoking in public is bad for everyone who wants this freedom to smoke recreationally without hassle. One only, and the rest of you trying to silence the messenger! Well done, 

 

Again good luck

 

 

 

 

I've made serious posts. Saying I haven't is disingenuous.

3 minutes ago, blaze master said:

 

I've made serious posts. Saying I haven't is disingenuous.

Yes, you said actually smoking in public is not ok. Not easy to remember everyone who attacks from all sides and corners. 

Again @Hummin it's weird that you don't take the hint.

This a problem that you have and you obviously looked for a way to vent your spleen via the board. It shows when you write things such as "spineless individuals". Exactly the same phrase that you used when you complained about foreigners talking about Thai women in front of your wife(where she could clearly understand what they were saying)...and the same that you have used countless other times. You are mad.

So you've started a poll, but seem to have ignored it, instead using the thread as a platform to accuse everyone of being the reason why recriminalisation was being considered. Weird...I mean really. It's you who is doing the attacking, yet you see people attacking you "from all sides and corners". I suggest it's time for you to undergo a mental evaluation.

I've noticed your strange behaviour before, but brushed it off as a misunderstanding. But this...

I'll tell you why I and many others might think it strange... Firstly your assertion that members of this forum smoking in public is the reason. That's strange enough, but when put to you that the reason for recriminalisation were somewhat different, you didn't seem interested in discussing that angle at all.

 

So it really looks as if you just need a vehicle for ranting. Unfortunately getting more mad along the way and then having to backpedal from your strange accusations.

First against @save the frogs and then @blaze master .

 

I have not ever been at a restaurant wherein someone fired up. In fact if someone even lights a cigarette up next to me, I send them off elsewhere.

But of course you aren't interested in anyone normal, as you are looking for someone to hate. That is YOUR mental issue. Ranting about unknown 'spineless individuals'. Seek help before it's too late. Maybe try some weed.

2 minutes ago, JakeC said:

Again @Hummin it's weird that you don't take the hint.

This a problem that you have and you obviously looked for a way to vent your spleen via the board. It shows when you write things such as "spineless individuals". Exactly the same phrase that you used when you complained about foreigners talking about Thai women in front of your wife(where she could clearly understand what they were saying).

So you've started a poll, but seem to have ignored it, instead using the thread as a platform to accuse everyone of being the reason why recriminalisation was being considered. Weird...I mean really. It's you who is doing the attacking, yet you see people attacking you "from all sides and corners". I suggest it's time for you to undergo a mental evaluation.

I've noticed your strange behaviour before, but brushed it off as a misunderstanding. But this...

I'll tell you why I an many others might think it strange... Firstly your assertion that members of this forum smoking in public is the reason. That's strange enough, but when put to you that the reason for recriminalisation were somewhat different, you didn't seem interested in discussing that angle at all.

 

So it really looks as if you just need a vehicle for ranting. Unfortunately getting more mad along the way and then having to backpedal from your strange accusations.

First against @save the frogs and then @blaze master .

 

I have not ever been in a restaurant were someone fired up. In fact if someone even lights a cigarette up next to me, I send them off elsewhere.

But of course you aren't interested in anyone normal, as you are looking for someone to hate. That is YOUR mental issue. Ranting about unknown 'spineless individuals'. Seek help before it's too late. Maybe try some weed.

 

first of all Im not mad at all, and to be true, my rants compared to others on this forum, in my eyes is just a little fart in the wind and shouldn’t get so much attention at all, but somehow it gets on you guys nerves when I state cannabis was never legal for recreational use. Just a few years prior there where campaigns to shut down smoking cigarettes in public with small designe areas only in public to smoke. 

 

I will leave it there and I can understand why some of you guys gets annoyed, especially when it is so important to a few of you. Most weed smokers do not smoke in public among Expats, but for the tourists it is a different situation.

 

Actually not so different what Amsterdam once experienced and had to make limitations for the tourists. 

 

Again thank you for letting me know Im responsible for all the heat against and I agree I totally owned it and nobody else contributed, I am solely responsible for the thread runs off the tracks. 

 

Now bring your kids to your favorite Island and lit up a nice joint at the restaurant, at the beach, or even at the cafe at the pick up point for the buss to the ferry, and even smoke at the ferry. 

 

My brother in law and his family travelled with us with his two kids, and this is what we actually experienced at Koh Kood and Koh Mak two years in row. 

 

Again, the problem is the arrogance and ignorance that this is actually pissing non smokers off, and Im not talking about foreigners only, but also and most important the locals who also are tourists. 

 

At Koh Phayam there is a great mix of all kinds of tourists but last few years the hardcore drug tourist have invaded to Island and turned in to a techno rave drug paradise, and even there where a few rasta bars in the past, this have changed after the decriminalizing of cannabis, and not only at Koh Phayam. 

 

Again, Thai people in general do not welcome this, 

 

 

Im done,

@Hummin There you go with your "you guys" nonsense again. Who are the "you guys"?

It shows that you are just ranting against some unquantified 'enemy'. I just told you that I don't like people smoking in my vicinity and you reply with a "you guys" post. 

Who are these "you guys" other than some 'bee in your bonnet'?

You have a mental issue. That's all it is.

You don't speak for Thai people nor any people for that matter. MYOB is my suggestion to you.

 

Shame about your island trips, but this has been going on since the '90's. If it were only cannabis... I stopped going to the FMP became a hotbed of drugs and certain types. 

 

5 minutes ago, JakeC said:

@Hummin There you go with your "you guys" nonsense again. Who are the "you guys"?

It shows that you are just ranting against some unquantified 'enemy'. I just told you that I don't like people smoking in my vicinity and you reply with a "you guys" post. 

Who are these "you guys" other than some 'bee in your bonnet'?

You have a mental issue. That's all it is.

You don't speak for Thai people nor any people for that matter. MYOB is my suggestion to you.

 

 

If you paid attaintion, you would know, but you become you guys when you do not even aknownledge there is a problem with the decriminalizing of weed 

 

And if you feel I have made wrong replies to you, or mistaken you for someone else, then I will apologize, not easy to remember everyone who come back with BS and steam for what I am writing. 

 

Thank you for your concerns about my mental state. The issue with mental problems, it is the one who have mental problems is the last to know and also aknowledge there is a problem. 

 

@Hummin That's exactly what I'm trying to tell. That many people don't see the 'problems' that you see. I would state that I have the same problem with vapers and their 'strawberry smoke' and cigarette smokers and their stinky smoke, but I don't feel the need to start a thread and to rant about it, accusing everyone who doesn't immediately side with me, as the enemy. That's just nuts.

Respect that different people will have different perspectives. I absolutely believe that people should try to not inconvenience others with their smoke, but that has NOTHING to do with the PT attempt at 'recriminalisation'.

So your thread makes no sense at all, other than an opportunity for you to shake your fist at the clouds.

Normally you present a more intelligent face, but lately, I'm beginning to wonder.

 

Looks like Anutin is going to be in power for awhile,get ready for another flip flop .

And stay tuned for another announcement next week or so.

On 8/31/2025 at 12:34 PM, short-Timer said:

Yet another gem of anti-weed nonsense. I wonder how many more idiotic posts like this we’re going to have to suffer through? Prolly endless. Funny how weed smokers are usually chill and mind their own business, but being around a drunk is one of the worst experiences imaginable. Unless of course she’s only had a couple and she’s riding reverse cowgirl, in which case, carry on.

True that ! It is so easy and fun to communicate with people under weed influence while drunk heads are annoyingly mumbling some nonsenses. Being sober around drunk people is a really bad experience.

Love it

 

The new thai pm

 

 

22 hours ago, zzzzz said:

Love it

 

The new thai pm

 

 

Hopefully he is still onside. Interests can always change at that level. 

5 hours ago, short-Timer said:

Hopefully he is still onside. Interests can always change at that level. 

Exactly right.  
 

And, frankly, I hope *some* additional oversight or common sense (I know its a fantasy) regulations are enacted as its out of control in Pattaya and I am sure other areas IMO.  

On 8/31/2025 at 5:48 PM, Hummin said:

Is there a problem when smokers lit a joint in public? Yes or no?

Yes, but I really don't care what they do in private - as long as it doesn't frighten the horses!

2 minutes ago, JAG said:

Yes, but I really don't care what they do in private - as long as it doesn't frighten the horses!

I haven't complained once about what people do in private, and as you say not my business, or at any joint shop, or Rasta bar! 

 

Most in here go full on rage mode when someone pointing out the obvious, and nothing else. 

All I will add is Alcohol is the root of every bad thing I have ever done, started drinking at 15 years old which is why, after 50 years I quit.  Can’t say I’m sorry for doing that, have no plans to take up weed, but the edibles do sound intriguing.

Maybe, just Maybe.  After two decades in Military, I have seen dozens and dozens of fights in bars around the world, but never seen a stoner fighting anyone but himself trying to get dressed, or get up to go to the bathroom.