Thailand Cannabis Festival celebrating legalization June 11,12
I'd walk a mile for a Thai stick, circa 1972
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So are the hippies gonna be pouring enmasse to the Thai islands to swing in hammocks and smoke pot all day then, whilst staring into the distance?
Like the 80's again?
Or in reality, is the illegal pot gonna be the go to ganja for the immediate future, due to its lower price.
Like the 80's again?
Or in reality, is the illegal pot gonna be the go to ganja for the immediate future, due to its lower price.
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You should probably ask @PhuketRichard that question as I think he moved to Thailand back in 1872.spitthedog wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 4:34 pmSo are the hippies gonna be pouring enmasse to the Thai islands to swing in hammocks and smoke pot all day then, whilst staring into the distance?
Like the 80's again?
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The vibe I've seen here in Thailand towards Cannabis use in public has been that of strict compliance of Thai law regarding public useage. I have not seen anyone openly smoking weed in public. I have seen zero Thai's or tourists openly smoking outside here. Not sure what's going on at Khao San Road in downtown Bangkok. There is a short video in this link that shows massive ques at an outdoor Cannabis stand selling bud non stop. Have a look at the video and see if you can find anyone openly smoking there either, they look to be just purchasing a lot of overly high priced herb. l https://www.khaosodenglish.com/opinion/ ... ematurely/
From Khaosod English: "I saw the lack of any regulation and blatant mockery of the notion of cannabis for “medical purposes” on Khao San Road Saturday night, where many locals and foreign tourists queue up to buy cannabis in a free for all atmospheres. None looked sick to me.
Well, it is not exactly free at 700 baht per gram, twice the price of weed in Amsterdam. A 20-year-old Briton from Bristol, Tycjan Gapski, was the first customer of the day, and that evening there were over a hundred buying the stuff which was illegal just half a week ago. Gapski told me Bangkok is becoming the New Amsterdam. (But then I quietly thought that was the old name of New York.)
“Everyone get the f*ck down here because this is gonna be madness,” Gapski told me after he bought a gram.
The price of legal marijuana flowers peddled by the weed truck on Khao San Road may be twice that of Amsterdam at 700 baht per gram but the huge potential for a new type of de facto “recreational tourism” is plain for all to see and smell. The price will likely drop as more are planting. The challenge is how to properly regulate them to mitigate unwanted repercussions.
With more than 6 million marijuana plants to be cultivated, according to Public Health Minister Anutin Charnveerakul, the man who successfully pushed for the policy, there should be little doubt of the trickle-down effect that would lead to the use of marijuana for recreational purposes.
The Ministry of Agriculture has also announced it will give away a million marijuana saplings, while over 580,000 people have registered with the government to grow cannabis and over thirty million Thais accessed the government cannabis app as of Saturday.
I am not alone cooking this up or fearing alone. On Friday, the dean of Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine, Chanchai Sittipunt, expressed concerns that some will simply claim that they have headache or severe pain, in fact they just wanna have a Thai stick to get high.
Anutin also admitted on Friday that some will probably get high all day and “kept smiling” and urged public health volunteers throughout the kingdom to be vigilant. Some even accused the government of trying to ‘drugged’ its own people so they can rule the country however they like. (Back in the 1970s and 80s, booze and cigarettes were so cheap in the Philippines under Marcos dictatorship one wonders if it is a way to keep people content and blurry, a form of state-induced escapism.)
Well, nothing really wrong with people enjoying a stick or two once in a while I would say – even if that is the grey area of the law. The concern is how to prevent it from not becoming so widespread and excessive to the point where a significant percentage of the Thai population, particularly young Thais become dependent on cannabis and addicted. If not handled properly, many Thais will simply vacate to the alternative high universe."
From Khaosod English: "I saw the lack of any regulation and blatant mockery of the notion of cannabis for “medical purposes” on Khao San Road Saturday night, where many locals and foreign tourists queue up to buy cannabis in a free for all atmospheres. None looked sick to me.
Well, it is not exactly free at 700 baht per gram, twice the price of weed in Amsterdam. A 20-year-old Briton from Bristol, Tycjan Gapski, was the first customer of the day, and that evening there were over a hundred buying the stuff which was illegal just half a week ago. Gapski told me Bangkok is becoming the New Amsterdam. (But then I quietly thought that was the old name of New York.)
“Everyone get the f*ck down here because this is gonna be madness,” Gapski told me after he bought a gram.
The price of legal marijuana flowers peddled by the weed truck on Khao San Road may be twice that of Amsterdam at 700 baht per gram but the huge potential for a new type of de facto “recreational tourism” is plain for all to see and smell. The price will likely drop as more are planting. The challenge is how to properly regulate them to mitigate unwanted repercussions.
With more than 6 million marijuana plants to be cultivated, according to Public Health Minister Anutin Charnveerakul, the man who successfully pushed for the policy, there should be little doubt of the trickle-down effect that would lead to the use of marijuana for recreational purposes.
The Ministry of Agriculture has also announced it will give away a million marijuana saplings, while over 580,000 people have registered with the government to grow cannabis and over thirty million Thais accessed the government cannabis app as of Saturday.
I am not alone cooking this up or fearing alone. On Friday, the dean of Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine, Chanchai Sittipunt, expressed concerns that some will simply claim that they have headache or severe pain, in fact they just wanna have a Thai stick to get high.
Anutin also admitted on Friday that some will probably get high all day and “kept smiling” and urged public health volunteers throughout the kingdom to be vigilant. Some even accused the government of trying to ‘drugged’ its own people so they can rule the country however they like. (Back in the 1970s and 80s, booze and cigarettes were so cheap in the Philippines under Marcos dictatorship one wonders if it is a way to keep people content and blurry, a form of state-induced escapism.)
Well, nothing really wrong with people enjoying a stick or two once in a while I would say – even if that is the grey area of the law. The concern is how to prevent it from not becoming so widespread and excessive to the point where a significant percentage of the Thai population, particularly young Thais become dependent on cannabis and addicted. If not handled properly, many Thais will simply vacate to the alternative high universe."
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https://coconuts.co/bangkok/features/we ... YIGXgNv228In the early noughties, Soranut “Beer” Masayavanich was a child star appearing on Thai television. Working in the industry, of course, introduced him to drugs. But after the tabloids picked up on a bust for weed, he never worked again – no one would hire him.
That’s how things were two decades ago: Drugs were bad. Period.
Today’s legalization of marijuana was sweet vindication for Beer, now 37, who spent 20 years campaigning for it to happen and this morning opened a fantastically named downtown shop. It’s called Sukhumweed.
...Opening a shop? Anyone can do it: no special license, no government approval required.
Sourcing is the bigger issue. Beer and his two partners, Siraphop “Non” Rahong and the Parin Tongwaranan – planted the seeds well in advance and have three production farms growing the stuff up in northern Nong Khai province.
Beer said he first imported respected strains from places like the United States but is experimenting with developing Thai varieties he is sure can compete. He wants Thai weed to stand on its own, especially as domestic growers fear being pushed aside by foreign imports.
Although would not be happy , i can see Thailand reversing and making the selling of weed Publicly Illegal in the coming months, although they wont be able to stop the selling thru online aps, such as; line, telegram an whatsapp
same as some counties in Ca, ( only place i know of 100%) that having a store front dispensary is not legal
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Whenever the P.M. speaks to the foreign press he parses his rhetoric as Thailand is still a party to UN anti-drug treaties. Does this create mass confusion in the english speaking world? Of course it does. The Thai's I talk to really could care less how ill recieved the new law is by foreign press. In their eyes the plant is legal just do not flaunt the law by smoking openly in public.
The PM's verbage is a bit less parsed when it comes to domestic consumption but still he does not want Thailand to be seen as a pot smokers paradise where stoners are wondering the streets burning spliff's to their hearts content. This would be seen to be off-putting by some of their many tourists from Japan and Korea for starters. Just the smell alone can be deemed a crime here. Bit of ying and yang.
A good post regarding Thailands and the USA'' party to anti-drug treaties, A forum poster from Aseannow:
"Actually, it’s because Thailand, the US, and most other countries are parties to UN anti-drug treaties.
Even in the US, they won’t legalize at the federal level because they would have to ignore those treaties and the second they do that, any country that is an exporter of drugs calls them out for being a hypocrite and just starts shipping heroin, meth, cocaine, etc and tells the US to pound sand if they complain.
BTW, if you’re asking how the US gets away with it, the individual states didn’t sign those agreements. The federal government did.
So, if California quits enforcing cannabis laws, and the federal government keeps it illegal but looks the other way, they’re still, technically, in compliance.
Back when Thailand first said they were legalizing cannabis in 2018, they explicitly said they will not violate those agreements.
They don’t want meth from Myanmar flooding the local market because they’re seen as violating these agreements.
So they say they’re legalizing “medicinal use” but they let everyone self-diagnose.
That technically complies with those agreements while effectively legalizing recreational use.
It should also be noted that when Thailand first announced legalizing cannabis, they also declared that they refuse to recognize patents on strains of cannabis for 5 years."
That’s because Thailand feels slighted that they did what the US pressured them to do under Nixon and now the US is making huge advancements in growing and medical research while Thailand is treating cannabis as a Category 5 narcotic.
Thailand feels like it should be the leader because cannabis has been a part of Thai culture for several hundred years until Nixon’s war on drugs forced Thailand to crack down on drugs.
Yes, there are ultra-conservative elements in Thailand that would like to see everything from tobacco to cannabis made illegal but they’re an insignificant minority.
if you look at everything Thailand has said and done, it’s 100% clear that they are trying to adhere to their international agreements while also making it clear that they won’t be cheated out of becoming a major player in this huge market. https://aseannow.com/topic/1262201-what ... /#comments
The PM's verbage is a bit less parsed when it comes to domestic consumption but still he does not want Thailand to be seen as a pot smokers paradise where stoners are wondering the streets burning spliff's to their hearts content. This would be seen to be off-putting by some of their many tourists from Japan and Korea for starters. Just the smell alone can be deemed a crime here. Bit of ying and yang.
A good post regarding Thailands and the USA'' party to anti-drug treaties, A forum poster from Aseannow:
"Actually, it’s because Thailand, the US, and most other countries are parties to UN anti-drug treaties.
Even in the US, they won’t legalize at the federal level because they would have to ignore those treaties and the second they do that, any country that is an exporter of drugs calls them out for being a hypocrite and just starts shipping heroin, meth, cocaine, etc and tells the US to pound sand if they complain.
BTW, if you’re asking how the US gets away with it, the individual states didn’t sign those agreements. The federal government did.
So, if California quits enforcing cannabis laws, and the federal government keeps it illegal but looks the other way, they’re still, technically, in compliance.
Back when Thailand first said they were legalizing cannabis in 2018, they explicitly said they will not violate those agreements.
They don’t want meth from Myanmar flooding the local market because they’re seen as violating these agreements.
So they say they’re legalizing “medicinal use” but they let everyone self-diagnose.
That technically complies with those agreements while effectively legalizing recreational use.
It should also be noted that when Thailand first announced legalizing cannabis, they also declared that they refuse to recognize patents on strains of cannabis for 5 years."
That’s because Thailand feels slighted that they did what the US pressured them to do under Nixon and now the US is making huge advancements in growing and medical research while Thailand is treating cannabis as a Category 5 narcotic.
Thailand feels like it should be the leader because cannabis has been a part of Thai culture for several hundred years until Nixon’s war on drugs forced Thailand to crack down on drugs.
Yes, there are ultra-conservative elements in Thailand that would like to see everything from tobacco to cannabis made illegal but they’re an insignificant minority.
if you look at everything Thailand has said and done, it’s 100% clear that they are trying to adhere to their international agreements while also making it clear that they won’t be cheated out of becoming a major player in this huge market. https://aseannow.com/topic/1262201-what ... /#comments
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Anyway, did you get legally stoned yet, Sonic?
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Legally and properly well medicated on this end Rob. Seriously helps a hangover as well.
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Well this is good news. Can I just get on a plane to Thailand and head for the coast to score a big bag of weed to puff away on on the beach? Or will I need to be quite secretive about it? Should I purchase in Bangkok? Or will Ko Lanta have a grow shop too? Maybe I can just order it online from the guest house for delivery?
Oh happy days!
Oh happy days!
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Website of Taratera the Cannabis company whose retail location is on Silom in Bangkok. They do have one farang on their board of directors along with photos and bio on the site as well as mission statement, etc.... https://taratera.com/about
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at 350-500 baht/grm a bag will cost yaThehighcommander wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 4:39 amWell this is good news. Can I just get on a plane to Thailand and head for the coast to score a big bag of weed to puff away on on the beach? Or will I need to be quite secretive about it? Should I purchase in Bangkok? Or will Ko Lanta have a grow shop too? Maybe I can just order it online from the guest house for delivery?
Oh happy days!
Candyland in Pattaya delivers via kerry express, You can order via line
CANT smoke in public and if caught a fine and possible jail time
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Want to grow your own? Go down to your local nursery and purchase a Cannabis plant. 200-2000b depending on size.
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