Thailand cannabis: From a war on drugs to weed curries

BBC World News ^ | 6/21/2022 | Jonathan Head

[LeoWindhorse]

Thailand legalised cultivating and consuming cannabis this month, reversing a hard-line approach of long prison sentences or even the death penalty for drug offences.

[LeoWindhorse]

Taiwan is NOT Thailand .
Taiwanese speak Chinese , the marbles in mouth language . Thai is totally different .
Much easier for 2nd languages people .
Thai , or P.I. , you want to know what the people are saying (about or concerning you) You do not want be the perpetually cluessky foreigner , unable to communicate in the national dialect and expecting everyone to comport to , or speak, English .They love it . Otherwise you will always be ‘ just another farang’

[jimwatx]

Yeah I meant Thailand. I was actually smoking a bowl while replying to that, so maybe I was a bit distracted lol.

[Robert DeLong]

You better think even harder if Thailand is moving closer to China, as it looks a if it is. Should that occur, weed will most likely not be legal after China absorbs them too.

[jimwatx]

There are similar issues with the Philippines as far as China is concerned, their new prez supposedly was backed by Chinese gov money. I always figured that after China grabs Taiwan, the Philippines would be next on their list.

The Philippines already has draconian drug laws, I’m hoping they at least approve medical marijuana sometime soon. Duterte himself seemed open to it, though he’s gone now.

[LeoWindhorse]

Thai pot is overrated. It was just exotic, in its day.

They did not even understand sensimilla.
People over here have it down way better.
Maybe they’ve learned by now though

[markomalley]

Hello from Thailand

I am not walking through clouds of ganja smoke and reggae music is not playing from every bar.

Ganja (กัญชา) is the loanword used in Thailand for weed. The leaves have been legal for culinary and medicinal use for a quite a while now. (The leaves only have a tiny amount of THC). The standard was that the THC level in any ganja product to be legal was 0.2% or less.

What has changed is that the entire plant was removed from the controlled drug list. But, at the same time, they said that smoking dope in public would be proseucted as a public nuisance — punishable by a fine and potential jail of up to 3 months.

In addition, the sale of ganja is still illegal to people under 20 or to pregnant / lactating women. It is also still illegal to possess on university campuses.

Further, extracts of ganja must have a THC level of 0.2% or less (so CBD is OK, but forget about hash oil). So you Thai stick fans out there will be disappointed LOL.

You can now buy marijuana buds in public, but it’s pretty pricey...especially considering the normal Thai salary is a lot less than the Stateside salary. At the newly-opened ganja shop in the local mall, the prices ranged from THB 450 to THB 600 per GRAM. (that’s USD 350 to USD 500 per ounce in stateside terms...or a cost of around USD 10-12.50 per joint). Consider the normal Thai salary for a professional is around 500-750 a month and far less for a blue-collar type job.

So, yeah, I could go to my local mall and buy some. But I can’t smoke it unless I do so in my house with the doors and windows closed. And I can’t really afford it on my retiree budget. So, don’t plan to see me posting on FR stoned...

[LeoWindhorse]

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[LeoWindhorse]

“THC level in any ganja product to be legal was 0.2% or less.”

And who will there be, running around, trying to apply these tests to everybody’s boo?

Highly unlikely .
Out in the mass population , entirely unenforcible

And if you did somehow come afoul of some % regulation, I’m sure it would be nothing a hah-loy baht note could not fix.
After all, it’s Thailand!

[markomalley]

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[cornfedcowboy]

Thailand?

[BipolarBob]

yep

[South Dakota]

Any temple balls around?
Hash and opium

[markomalley]

I just bought this at 7-11 an hour ago. There's not any measurable amount of THC in it. Makes a good mixer with Saeng Som by the way.

Are they making edibles with ganja buds? Of course. Are they making hash and hash oil? Of course. They were doing that before 9 Jun as well. It's also equally easy to get yaa baa and ya ai if you need or want.

The point being that you're not going to see corporations manufacture hash oil and be able to buy it next to sam buk balm, yaa takabb, and yaa gracku in the pharmacy section of 7-11. At least not now.

[Rebelbase]

Weed curry with psilocybin mushrooms at five star hot would be bad ju ju.

[LeoWindhorse]

This is all blowing my wife’s mind. She can hardly believe it

[LeoWindhorse]

Is it true that the Thai gov has freed, amnestied, and expunged records for all convicted of ganja offenses?

[cherry]

is it true that Thailand is the center of Southeast asia child prostitution?.....

[wardaddy]

Craziness like here

I had buddies did 25-30 calendars for large weeds ops

Now it’s around half legal and prices are collapsing

Hey sorry bout those 25 years old man

No you can’t have a grow permit either now felon

America are we a great country or not

Well the idea seemed good…once

Hey where’s that Uke cash

Oligarch gotta eat

Don’t we have some Christians to bomb somewhere to help Muslims

Or maybe some black ops guys to sacrifice for a fat bitches political career

Or some guns to give cartels to kill our own guys

Or indefinite No bond for the worst act of insurrection even worse than Pearl Harbor or 9-11

The Big Lie

The big lie is we still have electoral and judicial integrity

And a free flow of information for an informed public

But hey do your 25 for weed

It’s the American way !

[wardaddy]

High grade weed outer leaves have decent resin

You toast it first and then make butter or oil with it

It’ll work trust me

Most oil or edibles is made today from trash or shake that’s cooked or CO2 processed or extracted

[jmacusa]

Oh yeah!