New upcoming drug law

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Kenr wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 8:35 pm
Alex wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:42 pm
Kenr wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:27 pm
Alex wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:57 pm
Kenr wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:17 pm It’s not legal here in Cambodia but you can sure as shit get it any time you want it.
Who would you ask if you wanted to buy it? Your trusted neighborhood motodop?
Any tuk-tuk driver you walk by asks if you want it. Gets annoying after a while.
For some strange reason, they never ask me. Boo-hoo.
LOL. Go down by riverside between 130 and 178. If they don’t ask you it’s because you look like a narc.
I walk that stretch every day. Not once have I been asked.
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Roryborealis wrote:
sigmoid wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 2:08 pm If enforcement becomes too heavy-handed in LOS, it could be a win for KOW and Lao PDR.
Good point. Competition for a growing demographic.

Perhaps focusing more on broad, medical regulations (e.g., more inclusive lists of qualifying ailments), like Oklahoma or Minnesota, is a smarter regulatory approach than all-out, wild west style of recreational. I do like when family businesses can compete with those illegal cartels though.
In the States I see young'ins walking (quite well) into these medical Mary Jane shops daily. May be they are all ailing from some strange young disease. Seems like the docs are handing out the permission scripts loosely.
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hanno wrote: Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:18 am
Kenr wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 8:35 pm
Alex wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:42 pm
Kenr wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:27 pm
Alex wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:57 pm

Who would you ask if you wanted to buy it? Your trusted neighborhood motodop?
Any tuk-tuk driver you walk by asks if you want it. Gets annoying after a while.
For some strange reason, they never ask me. Boo-hoo.
LOL. Go down by riverside between 130 and 178. If they don’t ask you it’s because you look like a narc.
I walk that stretch every day. Not once have I been asked.
Don't know what to tell you. Maybe you look like a narc? All I know is that it's been offered and it seems to be quite easy to get here.
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hanno wrote: Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:18 am
Kenr wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 8:35 pm
Alex wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:42 pm
Kenr wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:27 pm
Alex wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:57 pm

Who would you ask if you wanted to buy it? Your trusted neighborhood motodop?
Any tuk-tuk driver you walk by asks if you want it. Gets annoying after a while.
For some strange reason, they never ask me. Boo-hoo.
LOL. Go down by riverside between 130 and 178. If they don’t ask you it’s because you look like a narc.
I walk that stretch every day. Not once have I been asked.
2 + 2 :chin:
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I dont expect things to change, Anutin Charnviraku the Minister of Public Health is the one behind the de regulation and i would say has a huge investment in keeping things as they are>
at the worst, exepct to see shops requiring a medical certificate to buy weed
there must be at least a dozen shops here in little Kamala and am sure they are not for locals> We even have one in Big C>
ONe cant walk the beach in hte late afternoon or stop outside beach club, Cafe del Mar without smelling it>

I believe they will do something about this an make a way for the police to make a dime out of it where as now, they dont even bother trying to enforce the no smoking ban in public
we have a new shop, ( run by Russians) that just opened, 100 meters to the beach, selling products made from cannabis's extracts which are banned

got some time on ur hand< take a look at the dedicated threads on thai visa
https://aseannow.com/forum/335-thailand-cannabis-forum/
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Doc67 wrote: Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:19 am LOL. Go down by riverside between 130 and 178. If they don’t ask you it’s because you look like a narc.
I walk that stretch every day. Not once have I been asked.

2 + 2 :chin:

I look a lot of things, but certainly nobody has ever accused me of looking like a narc. What does a narc look like?
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hanno wrote: Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:39 am
Doc67 wrote: Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:19 am LOL. Go down by riverside between 130 and 178. If they don’t ask you it’s because you look like a narc.
I walk that stretch every day. Not once have I been asked.
2 + 2 :chin:
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I look a lot of things, but certainly nobody has ever accused me of looking like a narc. What does a narc look like?
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Like Hank Schrader, would be my guess.
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hanno wrote: Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:39 am
Doc67 wrote: Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:19 am LOL. Go down by riverside between 130 and 178. If they don’t ask you it’s because you look like a narc.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I walk that stretch every day. Not once have I been asked.

2 + 2 :chin:

I look a lot of things, but certainly nobody has ever accused me of looking like a narc. What does a narc look like?
I didn't say that, KenR did. I was just drawing the inescapable conclusion. :D
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stevenjb wrote: Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:56 am
Roryborealis wrote:
sigmoid wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 2:08 pm If enforcement becomes too heavy-handed in LOS, it could be a win for KOW and Lao PDR.
Good point. Competition for a growing demographic.

Perhaps focusing more on broad, medical regulations (e.g., more inclusive lists of qualifying ailments), like Oklahoma or Minnesota, is a smarter regulatory approach than all-out, wild west style of recreational. I do like when family businesses can compete with those illegal cartels though.
In the States I see young'ins walking (quite well) into these medical Mary Jane shops daily. May be they are all ailing from some strange young disease. Seems like the docs are handing out the permission scripts loosely.
Under-agers scheming into the medical shops is like those skater punks you see hanging out in front of 7-11 asking grown ups to buy them a six pack of Old Milwaukee. (Full disclosure: I was one of those skater punks). Teenagers wanting to get high ain't nothing new.

But it's a similar dynamic. Except here it's semi-quackery approval mills run by medical professionals instead of some random gas station customer in a 7-11 parking lot.
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Kenr wrote: Mon Dec 04, 2023 5:11 am
ItWasntMe wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:10 pm
Kenr wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:07 pm
ItWasntMe wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 9:57 pm
Kenr wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 9:54 pm

Really? You are saying meth is nothing more than an amphetamine? Not even close.
That's ok, let's pretend you didn't claim meth and fentanyl was as deadly.
I did say it. Don’t need to pretend about anything.
Right, so you are talking out of your ass and I can't understand why? If you know so little about a topic why do you need to keep making a fool of yourself? Are you drunk or what's going on?
Not drunk, don’t feel I’m talking out of my ass, and I know enough about the subject.
Meth users tend to lose their teeth, fentanyl users their pulse.

I'm sorry that you choose to remain ignorant, hopefully you won't harm anyone with your misinformed conclusions.
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