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Thailand’s new government is moving ahead to pass new legisalation banning cannabis for recreational use in a major reversal 18 months after the country became the first in Asia to decriminalize the plant.

The relaxed laws saw a lucrative cannabis industry catering to locals and foreigners alike boom across the Southeast Asian nation, but a new conservative coalition government came to power late last year vowing to tighten the rules and only allow medical use.

A draft bill was released on Tuesday by Thailand’s health ministry outlining hefty fines or prison sentences of up to one year for offenders – or both.

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[-] gens@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago
[-] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I mean, a little bit. I had to quit weed for a while job and so I was having a glass of wine at a party and a few people made judgemental comments about how I'm "drinking again".

Similarly, now that I can smoke again, and as the only one in my extended social circle who can roll a joint that burns properly, I'll ask the person who brought the gear if they want me to roll joints, spliffs, or a few of each, and how strong, and again there will be one or two people who say "I can't believe people cut their weed with the tobacco, that's disgusting"

But at the same time, those judgy friends would never campaign for alcohol and tobacco to be completely criminalised. They just think weed is much better.

That said, a few of us were pretty happy to see the 100% vape ban coming into Victoria, not so much from the drug side of it, but I'm sick of seeing "disposable" vapes everywhere and seeing the parking lot bins catch fire almost every day at work because people chuck them out and the batteries explode.

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Having experienced some of life, and having seen what can happen with things like meth coke fentanyl tranq etc., I can see why commenters in this thread might think pot smokers think they're better than others when they hear things like "weed and shrooms only." Those other things do sound worse. I can't imagine wanting to try them tbh.

[-] Woht24@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

His whole statement is correct, I've seen it time and time again.

Your comment didn't even elaborate which part you were disagreeing with?

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I'm not either of those guys, but in my experience it has nothing to do with their drug of choice and more to do with the social tolerances of the overall group. Outside the good bars in my town all three types associate freely.

The notion that pot smokers all look down on users of other drugs is ridiculous.

[-] Woht24@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Not all, but definitely a common theme. Heavy drinkers judge smokers. Cigarette smokers judge weed smokers and vice versa.

There's also a lot of people who do all and have no problem, absolutely. But I've seen angst against other drug users in groups of drug users completely straight faced, unaware of the irony, plenty of times.

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Angst lmao, it's about harm reduction.

[-] gens@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

If I assume you are asking, instead of making a statement. Then i am not able to answer since i seem to be unable to see any comments on this post.

Maybe some moderator had a bad day, as only this world news is like that while the whole rest of lemmy.world works fine. Would be nice if i got any... anything about it. Seems harsh.

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