Do or don't smoke weed in Thailand?
Dear readers,
Hello everyone, I'm quite new here but not in Thailand. Been here many times and will be back again and hopefully for longer, but that's not the point.
Since I'm back in Bangkok I see that weed is openly sold in all tourist places and it's only been kind of legal for a month and a half from what I understand. To be clear weed has to grow and dry for a few months so of course it was there for much longer. I like to smoke a little now and then, but in the Netherlands I had promised myself not to use illegal drugs.
What is your idea about this?
To be clear I've been a bartender for over thirty so I know what the biggest drug is, booze and cigarettes but that's just legal and really destroys a lot more.
See it offered only in tourist areas. Would the government allow this from now on because the low THC value is hardly noticeable.
Would be nice to hear what you guys think without judging too much
Regards,
Frank
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You must always keep promises to yourself, because you cannot run away from yourself.
Using drugs will generally damage your health. (much, or little depending on the type and quantity)
But no one lives forever, so it is your own choice whether you want to exchange healthy years of life for less healthy years of life, and possibly fewer years of life.
Legalization mainly offers advantages. Do you keep it illegal, people use it too, but it goes underground and in the hands of criminals.
In all countries where weed became legal, it has been proven that there has been little or no increase in the number of users. The results are positive in most of those countries. When Alcohol was illegal there was also only crime around.
Now personally I think that in addition to legalization, there should always be regulation. A big mistake with Alcohol and tobacco is that these drugs have been thrown into the commercial circuit and have even started promoting them, because in my opinion this should never have happened.
Now cannabis is a lot less harmful and dangerous than alcohol and even tobacco. And you're not going to ban catapults if everyone can freely buy a riot gun?
The whole drug policy is a hypocritical affair and based on few scientific facts. Drugs are a public health problem, not a justice problem.
I also see coffee shops popping up like mushrooms everywhere in Pattaya. I don't use cannabis (anymore) myself, but a few friends told me that the weed they bought is comparable to the weed in NL or B. What is a bad start is that they also sell alcohol in the coffee shops, which in my opinion in itself is not a good combination.
And for all those that everything starts with a joint I can only think what nonsense. Everything starts with a glass of beer or a glass of wine.
If you keep cannabis in the illegal circuit, the chance that young people will come into contact with the heavier stuff in addition to the cannabis is much greater than when cannabis is sold in regular and controlled places.
Hopefully they don't make a mess in TH and they draw up good rules that are enforced.
https://www.jellinek.nl/vraag-antwoord/welke-drug-is-de-gevaarlijkste/