Phuket Police armed standoff ends on a high

Phuket Gazette

PHUKET: -- A two-hour standoff between Phuket police and an armed man ended without bloodshed last night after officers finally persuaded him to stand down.

Police arrived at a home along a soi opposite Chalong Temple at about 6pm after Sawai Thongyod called them, saying her 26-year-old son was armed, acting dangerously and she feared for her safety.

Her son, Sukan Samlee, was waving two guns around – one gun was a .38-caliber handgun, the other was only a fake pistol lighter.

Suksan, believed to have been under the influence of drugs at the time, was pretending to shoot Ms Sawai police were told.

Police arrived in force, with 10 officers surrounding the house.

Suksan noticed them as they approached and turned the real gun onto himself, warning officers to stay back.

During officers’ efforts to calm Suksan, he fired three warning shots into the air.

Phuket Muang District chief Suppachai Phochanukul tried to negotiate with Suksan directly, but Suksan refused all offers to surrender and kept the gun aimed at himself.

After two hours of talks, Suksan finally surrendered and was taken to Chalong Police Station.

Officers seized the .38 handgun, 23 bullets and the fake gun lighter from him as evidence.

They also found 32 grams of marijuana in the house.

Suksan was charged with discharging a firearm in a community and possession of a class 5 drug.

“My son was smoking marijuana at home before he turned crazy. He forced his wife and one-month-old baby to sit next to him, then started pulling her hair and pinching his child,” Ms Sawai said.

“I couldn’t stand watching him do this anymore. I felt sorry for my grandchild and daughter-in-law, so I called the police,” she said.

Ms Sawai added that her son lost his job at a hotel in Phuket a few days ago.

Source: http://www.phuketgaz...ticle11975.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-01-12

Smoking marijuana and then turning on your family in an aggressive way?! Yeah right...

Does this remind anyone else of the movie "Reefer Madness"?

This guy was most likely on Ja-Ba or something similar, marijuana doesn't make you aggressive or stupid like that

...marijuana doesn't make you aggressive or stupid like that

That would depend on a number of things. Smoking a joing obviously doesn't make anyone agressive but prolonged consumption has been linked to increased risk of psychosis. Psychosis may well make you erratic and agressvive.

The Dutch, who know a thing or two about marijuana consumption, have done studies to that effect.

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/156/4/319.full

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12616543

http://www.ukcia.org/research/CausalAssociationBetweenCannabisAndPsychosis/CausalAssociationBetweenCannabisAndPsychosis.pdf

"Phuket Police armed standoff ends on a high"

It started on a high as well! Far too many guns on this island and too much crime. I know I am not the only one who thinks this.

...marijuana doesn't make you aggressive or stupid like that

That would depend on a number of things. Smoking a joing obviously doesn't make anyone agressive but prolonged consumption has been linked to increased risk of psychosis. Psychosis may well make you erratic and agressvive.

The Dutch, who know a thing or two about marijuana consumption, have done studies to that effect.

http://aje.oxfordjou.../156/4/319.full

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12616543

http://www.ukcia.org...ndPsychosis.pdf

Actually, THC is a psychosis enhancing substance in marijuana, while CBD, which is also in all marijuana plants, is a psychosis suppressing substance. That's why all pharmaceutical companies are trying to make synthetic CBD for that exact purpose. The reason why some young people in Europe are developing psychosis from smoking marijuana is because the stuff they smoke has been altered/cloned to have a very high THC and a low CBD content. Thai marijuana is a natural, so it contains both substances in a relative equal amount, and the chances for developing a psychosis is respectively low.

Anyways, it't totally insane to blame smoking pot for his actions, I guarantee they found other substances in his blood, fi they bothered to test for it. IMHO they just like to have something to blame on marijuana, because they need to justify their ban on marijuana.

its obvious that he wanted to go to jail.. he has a job there, friends and free food and all the 'ass' he can dream off

Fired three shots in the air...hahahahah You can't be serious...? Back in the states he would have been dead if he flinched...What is wrong here...? More like the wild west every day...

He shouldve accompanied his smoke with a little gin and juice to mellow out. Seriously, he was just craving attention.

...marijuana doesn't make you aggressive or stupid like that

That would depend on a number of things. Smoking a joing obviously doesn't make anyone agressive but prolonged consumption has been linked to increased risk of psychosis. Psychosis may well make you erratic and agressvive.

The Dutch, who know a thing or two about marijuana consumption, have done studies to that effect.

http://aje.oxfordjou.../156/4/319.full

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12616543

http://www.ukcia.org...ndPsychosis.pdf

Actually, THC is a psychosis enhancing substance in marijuana, while CBD, which is also in all marijuana plants, is a psychosis suppressing substance. That's why all pharmaceutical companies are trying to make synthetic CBD for that exact purpose. The reason why some young people in Europe are developing psychosis from smoking marijuana is because the stuff they smoke has been altered/cloned to have a very high THC and a low CBD content. Thai marijuana is a natural, so it contains both substances in a relative equal amount, and the chances for developing a psychosis is respectively low.

Anyways, it't totally insane to blame smoking pot for his actions, I guarantee they found other substances in his blood, fi they bothered to test for it. IMHO they just like to have something to blame on marijuana, because they need to justify their ban on marijuana.

You're dead right there, no way Thai weed has got him into that state, you can guarantee he had been having something else, ya baa or even the evil booze, it's only when you mix things with ganja that things go awry.