Help! My staff smoke cannabis!
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From an article in the media
The history of the partial legalization of cannabis in Thailand is fresh in our minds. First legislative amendment 9/2/2022, home cultivation of weakened cannabis allowed 9/6/2022, 3.071 prisoners released who were only serving cannabis, parliamentary debate 14/9/2022 and the chamber sends the proposal back to the department. Insecurities, mental health, dangers for youth, well, that's how it went in NL when the tolerance policy was proposed.
Minister Anutin of 'Health' (SPhotograph / Shutterstock.com)
Minister Anutin does not want to give in to the pressure. Do you remember him? He claimed that farang in Thailand are certainly not looking armpit fresh… But the back pressure against his Cannabis & Hemp Bill is causing a delay.
It didn't turn out the way the minister thought; weakened cannabis is actually only for medicinal use in Thailand, but it is seen by the trade as the candy-of-the-week and you can even eat it on your sandwich or in your bowl of soup.
And the first sick people have already reported who had to be carried off the table half unconscious... It is not for nothing that Anutin ordered food sellers on 18-08-2022 to tell customers if there is cannabis in the food.
Suppose your employee is blowing away…
Yes, why not! But suppose that employee doesn't come in until half past ten and also in a jolly hallelujah mood! He works on the shredder, drives the delivery van or knows the key on the keyboard ม and the Why no longer to be found. Well, what then?
The Ministry of Labor has sent a letter to employers recommending rules for the use of cannabis in the workplace. Make rules for use at work and how to keep a clear head when smoking weed on your own time.
And who doesn't? Warning first, then dismissal. But remember, also in Thailand, dismissal must be well motivated, otherwise it can cost a lot of money.
You can read the whole article (in English) here: https://bit.ly/3Rq78DJ
Also with thanks to Sydney Criminal Lawyers,
Translation and editing: Erik Kuijpers
I see a lot of coffee shops in Pattaya now. I don't have the impression that there is a surprise in those shops.
Doesn't surprise me because it has often been proven that legalizing does not entail more consumption. I certainly don't have the impression that everyone in Pattaya is now stoned. Those who used to want to smoke weed already did so, albeit more secretly.
And yes, I used to use cannabis regularly and I can only confirm that it is not much compared to Alcohol. Even now I'd rather sit with someone who's a little stoned than with someone who's dead drunk.
It remains a mystery to me why a winegrower should be awarded prizes and diplomas and a cannabis farmer only be punished. No one can scientifically prove this. Besides, the entire drug policy is not based on scientific facts or on political decisions.
The fact is that, in addition to legalizing, it is also best to regulate. In my view, this means that it is best not to make the same mistakes as already happened with alcohol and tobacco. We pushed these two substances into the commercial circuit and even used them to sponsor and build parties around.
and I don't think that's the right way to do it.
Do not advertise weed keep it away from minors and out of traffic. Only allow sales by people who know about the product and check the quality.
I think keeping weed away from minors works just as “well” as keeping cigarettes and alcohol away from minors.
Dear Fred
Nice to read your comment
Help my staff come to work drunk or with a hangover
Yes, also a headline above an article
Better a little weed than all that laokaw.
All those opponents of a weed should drink a cup of tea themselves
Makes them a lot more relaxed to deal with
And according to some doctors still good for the body too
Gr an old man of 64 who drinks and smokes a weed from time to time
Stress is the number 1 cause of death
Gr Peter
Peter de Jong, now you're mixing up recreational use and under the influence at work. Like you can come to work with a cone of alcohol!
When you work you have to be sober. Exactly what the legislation in Thailand wants: intoxicated employees are of no use. It can be unsafe for that person, colleagues and society, so there are now measures in place to penalize overuse. Tired at work? Then there is a threat of dismissal. And rightly so.
"Better a little weed than all that laokaw"? Well, nice, such a dim colleague opposite you at the desk or when you build a scaffolding together…. I would ask another teammate/colleague!
That depends on the blow. But I assume you too have read that resistance to the proposed legislation is growing. Elections are coming up and if stricter rules are introduced and/or this 'medical' cannabis is banned again, I wouldn't be surprised.
I may be wrong, but if, like in many villages, they already suffer from alcohollism, whereby those who do not shy away from participating in traffic under their influence, how will it be that the use of Cannabis is also considered intentional? increase?
A country that is already known as one of the most dangerous countries in terms of traffic, and the associated high fatalities, should not take extra care with the next drug possibility?
Also in daily work, where great attention and safety standards should often be preferred, this is asking for even more problems.
Of course some will say that you can control everything, but when I see how these controls already function, I have already thought of that.
You cannot drink a pint in the afternoon, you are not allowed to advertise a pint, but you can go to the coffee shop all day to buy weed, everywhere it is openly displayed and publicity is made…
If you know who is the largest producer and who is a shareholder there, you know enough why this is the case…555
John, you are right about traffic, but you cannot tailor legislation to the weakest in society. 'There are people who drink themselves to death, so go ahead, get rid of all alcohol...' Then you will also find the real tasters who do not indulge in excesses. Cannabis is just like smoking and alcohol; it has to 'establish itself' in society and unfortunately there will always be people who go to extremes...
Dear Erik, When I look in the village where my wife was born, I can no longer count on the fingers of two hands the number of deaths that have died in traffic due to alcohol abuse.
Often young people who could all still live now, and in their numbers are in no comparison with those numbers that we know from most European countries.
The information provided by these people, and especially the ridiculous sales times, with which they try to control this problem together with police checks, are often just as ineffective as they are ridiculous.
Of course it often affects the weakest in a society, which in Thailand is often due to the enormously poor education, information, and poor opportunities.
Every existing law is not worth a wink if these weakest members of society, whatever you call them, are not taught better education, information and stricter traffic rules.
The warnings that are already taking place now and then, still indicate that very many, partly due to this extremely minimal education and information, still do not understand that safe traffic starts with good driving training and especially the banning of alcohol in this.
As long as a government is to blame for this, they will cause even more of these to go to the hole, if you call it, with a new Cannabis law.
It is usually not the connoisseur who can enjoy something in moderation, but especially those groups that I mean, and demonstrably cannot.
No drug belongs in traffic. And whether this is a legal or an illegal one does not matter. Legal or illegal is no more or less than a political decision.
And when someone has or causes an accident while intoxicated, it doesn't matter what substance he or she was under the influence of. I don't understand why people want to keep making that distinction. It is ultimately not up to a government to draw up a drug menu.
I would say no drug belongs in a body that covers more. Exceptions for medicinal use for those who really benefit from this and they should then inform themselves whether they can still participate in traffic without consequences, etc.
As always, people cannot handle the luxury and this hassle does not make society better, but worse. It is a trading product that involves big money and that attracts many. The genie is out of the bottle and the behavior is clearly observable. Everything was foreseeable in advance and I am not surprised by this, now the politics.
For readers who can open The Straits Times, yesterday an article in that newspaper about how Thailand wants to deal with visitors from countries that continue to see cannabis as a drug. The headline of the article reads: 'Thailand does not want to promote cannabis use to travelers from nations that ban it…'. That is what the minister mentioned earlier says. A large photo of a government cannabis nursery somewhere in Thailand.
Well, can it get any more curved? How can you NOT promote something? You walk past the coffee shops on the street with 'Happy Cannabis'! Do you send a civil servant with tourists from Singapore, among others, to keep them away? Or is this a cry for the stage to soften some of the regional objections to Thai policy?
Oh well, an employee who smokes pot a few times a week or an employee who drinks himself to death every night, what would you prefer... Maybe people respect their private sphere a little, as long as their performance at work does not change negatively.