KunKhmerSR wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 11:13 am

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 9:56 am
The company revealed that more than 2,250 shops are directly managing their listings, ensuring the accuracy of the data provided. This interactive tool enables users to explore the latest developments and trends in the Thai cannabis market. As the industry continues to evolve, WEED.TH plans to track and release additional information.

Holy shit! 2,250 shops and thats just whats registered on this website. I just looked it up and the whole Netherlands only has around 500-600 coffee shops

Very excited for any studies coming out that will show the effect this has on tourism...

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 12:33 pm

KunKhmerSR wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 11:13 am

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 9:56 am
The company revealed that more than 2,250 shops are directly managing their listings, ensuring the accuracy of the data provided. This interactive tool enables users to explore the latest developments and trends in the Thai cannabis market. As the industry continues to evolve, WEED.TH plans to track and release additional information.

Holy shit! 2,250 shops and thats just whats registered on this website. I just looked it up and the whole Netherlands only has around 500-600 coffee shops

Very excited for any studies coming out that will show the effect this has on tourism...

I doubt any at all:

People wont travel to Thailand to smoke weed ( its cheaper elsewhere)
NOR will people stop drinking and switch to smoking weed.
NOR will tourists all of a sudden become weed smokers.
All it does it make it easier and more relaxing to light one up at home.

I seriously doubt that 12 weed shops in Kamala will survive the long low season, Thais and local expats wont pay such high prices and many that were smoking before, will buy from their sources
same goes for Patong and the rest of the shops around the island, ( we even have a weed stall at out local Big C)

KunKhmerSR wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 4:43 pm

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 12:33 pm

KunKhmerSR wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 11:13 am

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 9:56 am
The company revealed that more than 2,250 shops are directly managing their listings, ensuring the accuracy of the data provided. This interactive tool enables users to explore the latest developments and trends in the Thai cannabis market. As the industry continues to evolve, WEED.TH plans to track and release additional information.

Holy shit! 2,250 shops and thats just whats registered on this website. I just looked it up and the whole Netherlands only has around 500-600 coffee shops

Very excited for any studies coming out that will show the effect this has on tourism...

I doubt any at all:

People wont travel to Thailand to smoke weed ( its cheaper elsewhere)
NOR will people stop drinking and switch to smoking weed.
NOR will tourists all of a sudden become weed smokers.
All it does it make it easier and more relaxing to light one up at home.

I seriously doubt that 12 weed shops in Kamala will survive the long low season, Thais and local expats wont pay such high prices and many that were smoking before, will buy from their sources
same goes for Patong and the rest of the shops around the island, ( we even have a weed stall at out local Big C)

Sorry but you're clearly basing that off your own perspective, which is why I am so curious for some actual cold hard figures and stats.
Let me tell you as a long time weed smoker what I saw in Thailand will (from MY perspective) have an impact on Tourism once word spreads around. It will make a lot of people choose Thailand over similar destinations in the area, or even South America for that matter. Nobody wants to get arrested, robbed or scammed on their holiday so having legal shops that sell over the counter with a vast selection of high grade bud will be very attractive and will weight much bigger on peoples decision than the pricing. Plus other factors like being able to blaze up on the beach, the jungle etc. which most other countries that you can buy legally don't have.

After four years of support from the ruling coalition government, Thailand is expected to vote against the decriminalisation of marijuana in Sunday’s general election. The current free-for-all and weed shops lining the busy tourist streets appears unlikely to continue in the months after the election and a new parliament is settled.

Almost all of the political parties involved in the 2023 national election are in favour of returning to the previous policies of marijuana prohibition and confining its use to medicinal purposes only. Only one party is still seeking some sort of policy that would allow and regulate recreational use.

The changes in policies comes amid rising concerns over the negative societal impact of an open-slather approach to cannabis use. The decriminalisation has also been botched by a lack of details, leading to a legal vacuum, with no regulations in place covering the recreational use of the drug in Thailand.

As the original supporter, Thailand’s public health minister Anutin Charnvirakul, has said often since last year’s decriminalisation, “that was never the intention” of the change in the law. Some enthusiasts claim that “it’s too late” and that it will be impossible to “get the toothpaste back in the tube”. But without any legal framework supporting the current wild-west approach to the herb, it’s unlikely that any ongoing free-for-all would be supported by any political party.