Benjamin, did you read the news article in The Thaiger a few days ago? The title was "Cannabis decriminalisation not linked to rise in psychiatric patients", and it seems that you were correct in your previous videos - "SHOW US THE EVIDENCE" you said. Well there's the evidence, it's Reefer Madness Thai style.
To your ongoing "opinion" about concentrated cannabis "requiring" a "special license/ special consideration" is completely wrong! It's about moderation something a majority of the population has no clue about! Does the government require a special license to purchase aspirin because taking to many can harm/kill you this is such a pathetic stance from those in charge! Is big alcohol required to have special license to sell beer vs. whiskey? Are the customers required a prescription to purchase beer/wine vs. whiskey? Again Ben please consult an expert in the cannabis industry before sharing your opinions on the subject. The know nothings at the top are scraping the bottom of the barrel for their unfounded BS! Personally the last thing I want to hear from them is a quote from you about this topic. Not to mention the lack of knowledge from the general public. IMHO the cannabis industry has a huge responsibility to educate the general public from a scientific/factual standpoint. They have been brainwashed by the medical community and know nothing politicians for far to long. Thanks for your updates and content! 🌴🙏🌴
I agree with you about not needing a special license to buy concentrated cannabis. Other countries who legalized or decriminalized cannabis have not separated the flower and the concentrate in terms of the process to buy it and it is working out just fine. We cannot overdose on cannabis unlike on those other substances you named such as aspirin, beer, and whiskey. I also agree that it is our job to educate the public about cannabis because of the previous and even current corruption in the medical community.
@@AzimJivani Absolutely, agree with you 100%. There is a misconception about the term "overdosing" unfortunately I've been there a time or two. Eating cannabis and smoking cannabis are two completely different types of high! Being way to high in no fun and I overdosed taking "Rick Simpson oil" i.e. RSO several times. The main point is no one in the history of mankind has ever died. Thanks for the conversation. 🌴🙏🌴
@@olddudegrowsorganically6400 thanks for that correction. Nobody has died from an overdose of cannabis. But people have died on aspirin as its overdose can kill, and the same with beer and whiskey.
Cannabis has already been rescheduled internationally (by the UN in December of 2020) as a medicine. Cannabis is medicine. Recreational use is medicinal use. Smoking weed is also medicinal, perhaps not as medicinal as ingesting or vaping, but nevertheless, it's still medicinal. All this ban of recreational use talk is nonsense. Do you really think they will not allow tourists (as tourism is one of the biggest ways Thailand makes money) to buy and smoke flowers legally, especially when the rest of the world who decriminalized cannabis allows its people to do so? I highly doubt it. Thailand would be the laughing stock of the world if it decriminalized then recriminalizes the flower within a few years for no good reason.
In Massachusetts cannibis was legalized by statewide referendum. When a company wants to open a cannibis dispensary in a town or city, that town or city has a referendum. The people decided if they wanted or didn't want a dispensary in their town or city. I think this is an example of bottom up law in action. Let the people of Thailand decide, not a single minister alone.
Not a lawyer and know little about the underlying theory of law in Thailand. I LOVE your approach to the whole cannabis issue. I love your stress on democracy. What Jordan Peterson calls "bottom up" law, in my tradition, we would call "grass roots". Love that too. But ... Not sure about the whole emergency powers angle. As far as I can figure out, what is done under emergency conditions need not hold when the emergency is over. And what was done under the emergency can be undone or reversed when the emergency is over. Sometimes they have to be undone. We need not have another new emergency to undo what was done in the previous emergency. It might be more useful to stress other reasons, such as commercial benefit and the potential revenue to various state agencies. Good luck. Mike
I agree with this quote from Hunter S Thompson : ' I have always loved Marijuana, it has been a source of comfort and joy to me for many years. I still think of it as a basic staple of life. And million of Americans agree with me'.
Cannabis is only good for medical reasons. ....... Strange event ........ My Thai wife, while visiting Thailand, went to her government doctor. She was made to pay 500 baht because she was married to an American. I don't know if this is normal or a scam.
Thaksin wanted to legalise - the killings were the army and police way of not being caught for being part of supply so they took out those that were close to them
The problem with the nuisance law is this. If it's a nuisance to smoke pot why isn't it a nuisance to smoke tobacco? My understanding is a large portion of the Thai population smokes tobacco and they don't want a general law like nuisance laws being activated as it might backfire. I'm a nonsmoker so I want neither near me so I can only imagine a cop laughing at me if I asked them to cite the 30 people around me as he's holding a cig too.
I believe the public nuisance law is reasonable. Why would you want anyone smoking anything around you or your family out in public, especially when you don't know the person and don't know what they're smoking? Furthermore, if anyone has an objection to us smoking weed in public, we can just move to another spot where no one objects. Not everywhere is a highly populated area or an area of people who don't like weed smoke. There are designated private properties such as some dispensaries and shops who allow weed to be smoked on their premesis as long as you are a customer or friend. Cigarette smokers, in my opinion, should also follow such guidelines. Let's bring positive change in this world finally with the decriminalization of cannabis so that they cannot even think about taking it away from us again.
@@AzimJivani "Why would you want anyone smoking anything around you or your family", "Cigarette smokers, in my opinion, should also follow such guidelines" -- While I agree with you that all public smoking should be banned. 40% of Thai men smoke and it is their country, not ours. They get to make the laws we have to live with. If smoking tobacco is NOT a nuisance to them and they want specific law to cut back on weed, that's their prerogative. I agree with Ben though that they should do this through the legislative process and not bureaucratic decree.
@@Trahloc This your and my country talk is a form of divide and conquer. We are one. Their borders don't mean that Thai men are not people just like us just because supposedly a minority of them smoke cigarettes. Cigarette smoke is much more harmful than weed smoke. I never said or implied that all public smoking should be banned; I only suggested that the public nuisance law is good and that we should have the permission or acceptance of the public around us to smoke anything. If not, move along. Prohibiting weed smoke and allowing cigarette smoke in the same area seems unreasonable. Any law passed must be properly processed and not arbitrarily decreed.
@@AzimJivani "This your and my country talk is a form of divide and conquer. We are one." -- No, we are not. Nations exist. Cultures exist. Each should be respected. Respect starts by acknowledging their basic right to exist in the first place. To me the starting point of your argument is to say, "You don't know how to dictate your own life properly, I know better, I'll tell you how to live." There is no greater disrespect you could possibly show a host nation than that imo. "Cigarette smoke is much more harmful than weed smoke." -- Both are terrible if your goal is to avoid lung cancer. Smoke of *any* kind is bad, full stop. Weed isn't some magical exception to physics. "I only suggested that the public nuisance law is good" -- If A leads to B and B leads to C then A leads to C. Nuisance laws basically ban smoking in a location. We're guests in their country. The guest doesn't tell the host how to live their life. If we don't like it. We leave. "not arbitrarily decreed" -- agreed but it is not arbitrary to have a legal exception due to cultural norms that outsiders can't see a logical differentiation between.
@@Trahloc how did you change what I said to not respecting anyone's right to exist or I'm telling you how to live? Telling me that smoking weed is terrible when people are allowed to smoke cigarettes in public seems irrational. Trying to outlaw a plant is trying to dictate someone's life, not anything that I said.
Shame dope stinks..awful crap..gate way for some people stronger drugs coke tablets..rather have a singa...much better...dont have a heart attack...have goodday..enjoy your show..
Benjamin, did you read the news article in The Thaiger a few days ago? The title was "Cannabis decriminalisation not linked to rise in psychiatric patients", and it seems that you were correct in your previous videos - "SHOW US THE EVIDENCE" you said. Well there's the evidence, it's Reefer Madness Thai style.
To your ongoing "opinion" about concentrated cannabis "requiring" a "special license/ special consideration" is completely wrong! It's about moderation something a majority of the population has no clue about! Does the government require a special license to purchase aspirin because taking to many can harm/kill you this is such a pathetic stance from those in charge!
Is big alcohol required to have special license to sell beer vs. whiskey? Are the customers required a prescription to purchase beer/wine vs. whiskey?
Again Ben please consult an expert in the cannabis industry before sharing your opinions on the subject. The know nothings at the top are scraping the bottom of the barrel for their unfounded BS! Personally the last thing I want to hear from them is a quote from you about this topic. Not to mention the lack of knowledge from the general public.
IMHO the cannabis industry has a huge responsibility to educate the general public from a scientific/factual standpoint. They have been brainwashed by the medical community and know nothing politicians for far to long.
Thanks for your updates and content!
🌴🙏🌴
I agree with you about not needing a special license to buy concentrated cannabis. Other countries who legalized or decriminalized cannabis have not separated the flower and the concentrate in terms of the process to buy it and it is working out just fine. We cannot overdose on cannabis unlike on those other substances you named such as aspirin, beer, and whiskey. I also agree that it is our job to educate the public about cannabis because of the previous and even current corruption in the medical community.
@@AzimJivani Absolutely, agree with you 100%. There is a misconception about the term "overdosing" unfortunately I've been there a time or two. Eating cannabis and smoking cannabis are two completely different types of high! Being way to high in no fun and I overdosed taking "Rick Simpson oil" i.e. RSO several times. The main point is no one in the history of mankind has ever died.
Thanks for the conversation.
🌴🙏🌴
@@olddudegrowsorganically6400 thanks for that correction. Nobody has died from an overdose of cannabis. But people have died on aspirin as its overdose can kill, and the same with beer and whiskey.
@@AzimJivani Peace my Brother, are you living in Thailand?
@@olddudegrowsorganically6400 Yes, I am, bro. I live in Phuket. How about you?
Cannabis has already been rescheduled internationally (by the UN in December of 2020) as a medicine. Cannabis is medicine. Recreational use is medicinal use. Smoking weed is also medicinal, perhaps not as medicinal as ingesting or vaping, but nevertheless, it's still medicinal. All this ban of recreational use talk is nonsense. Do you really think they will not allow tourists (as tourism is one of the biggest ways Thailand makes money) to buy and smoke flowers legally, especially when the rest of the world who decriminalized cannabis allows its people to do so? I highly doubt it. Thailand would be the laughing stock of the world if it decriminalized then recriminalizes the flower within a few years for no good reason.
Thank you Ben and staff keep up the great work
I agree there’s always going to be people who have a cry over it and make rubbish statements it harms no one just brings in billions of dollars
In Massachusetts cannibis was legalized by statewide referendum. When a company wants to open a cannibis dispensary in a town or city, that town or city has a referendum. The people decided if they wanted or didn't want a dispensary in their town or city. I think this is an example of bottom up law in action. Let the people of Thailand decide, not a single minister alone.
Not a lawyer and know little about the underlying theory of law in Thailand. I LOVE your approach to the whole cannabis issue. I love your stress on democracy. What Jordan Peterson calls "bottom up" law, in my tradition, we would call "grass roots". Love that too.
But ... Not sure about the whole emergency powers angle. As far as I can figure out, what is done under emergency conditions need not hold when the emergency is over. And what was done under the emergency can be undone or reversed when the emergency is over. Sometimes they have to be undone. We need not have another new emergency to undo what was done in the previous emergency.
It might be more useful to stress other reasons, such as commercial benefit and the potential revenue to various state agencies.
Good luck. Mike
I agree with this quote from Hunter S Thompson : ' I have always loved Marijuana, it has been a source of comfort and joy to me for many years. I still think of it as a basic staple of life. And million of Americans agree with me'.
Cannabis is only good for medical reasons. ....... Strange event ........ My Thai wife, while visiting Thailand, went to her government doctor. She was made to pay 500 baht because she was married to an American. I don't know if this is normal or a scam.
The Cannabis change could be called the Thaksin influence.
Thaksin wanted to legalise - the killings were the army and police way of not being caught for being part of supply so they took out those that were close to them
Well done.
Isn't Petterson Jewish? I think he is Arab blood.
Can you find out if drinking and driving accidents and deaths are down in the last 2 years please? ❤😊
We living in interesting times
simple answer is big money wants to monopolize the market. pay to play is the thailand way
Cannabis should be treated similarly to alcohol when regulated government such as in Canada, where the gove4nment receives tax revenue
The problem with the nuisance law is this. If it's a nuisance to smoke pot why isn't it a nuisance to smoke tobacco? My understanding is a large portion of the Thai population smokes tobacco and they don't want a general law like nuisance laws being activated as it might backfire. I'm a nonsmoker so I want neither near me so I can only imagine a cop laughing at me if I asked them to cite the 30 people around me as he's holding a cig too.
I believe the public nuisance law is reasonable. Why would you want anyone smoking anything around you or your family out in public, especially when you don't know the person and don't know what they're smoking? Furthermore, if anyone has an objection to us smoking weed in public, we can just move to another spot where no one objects. Not everywhere is a highly populated area or an area of people who don't like weed smoke. There are designated private properties such as some dispensaries and shops who allow weed to be smoked on their premesis as long as you are a customer or friend. Cigarette smokers, in my opinion, should also follow such guidelines. Let's bring positive change in this world finally with the decriminalization of cannabis so that they cannot even think about taking it away from us again.
@@AzimJivani "Why would you want anyone smoking anything around you or your family", "Cigarette smokers, in my opinion, should also follow such guidelines" -- While I agree with you that all public smoking should be banned. 40% of Thai men smoke and it is their country, not ours. They get to make the laws we have to live with. If smoking tobacco is NOT a nuisance to them and they want specific law to cut back on weed, that's their prerogative. I agree with Ben though that they should do this through the legislative process and not bureaucratic decree.
@@Trahloc This your and my country talk is a form of divide and conquer. We are one. Their borders don't mean that Thai men are not people just like us just because supposedly a minority of them smoke cigarettes. Cigarette smoke is much more harmful than weed smoke. I never said or implied that all public smoking should be banned; I only suggested that the public nuisance law is good and that we should have the permission or acceptance of the public around us to smoke anything. If not, move along. Prohibiting weed smoke and allowing cigarette smoke in the same area seems unreasonable. Any law passed must be properly processed and not arbitrarily decreed.
@@AzimJivani "This your and my country talk is a form of divide and conquer. We are one." -- No, we are not. Nations exist. Cultures exist. Each should be respected. Respect starts by acknowledging their basic right to exist in the first place. To me the starting point of your argument is to say, "You don't know how to dictate your own life properly, I know better, I'll tell you how to live." There is no greater disrespect you could possibly show a host nation than that imo.
"Cigarette smoke is much more harmful than weed smoke." -- Both are terrible if your goal is to avoid lung cancer. Smoke of *any* kind is bad, full stop. Weed isn't some magical exception to physics.
"I only suggested that the public nuisance law is good" -- If A leads to B and B leads to C then A leads to C. Nuisance laws basically ban smoking in a location. We're guests in their country. The guest doesn't tell the host how to live their life. If we don't like it. We leave.
"not arbitrarily decreed" -- agreed but it is not arbitrary to have a legal exception due to cultural norms that outsiders can't see a logical differentiation between.
@@Trahloc how did you change what I said to not respecting anyone's right to exist or I'm telling you how to live? Telling me that smoking weed is terrible when people are allowed to smoke cigarettes in public seems irrational.
Trying to outlaw a plant is trying to dictate someone's life, not anything that I said.
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Shame dope stinks..awful crap..gate way for some people stronger drugs coke tablets..rather have a singa...much better...dont have a heart attack...have goodday..enjoy your show..