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submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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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[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Totes fine with people smoking pot, provided said pot is odorless.

[-] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 20 points 9 months ago

And I'd be fine with the neighbors cooking up a smelly fish meal if they could just make that food odorless.

But obviously they can't and that makes no sense, so instead I am a normal human being and just deal with a smell that is not to my preference since it's completely subjective and can't hurt me.

[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

You need to eat. You don’t need to smoke. Weed stinks like nothing else. Try again.

[-] pacific@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

But you don’t NEED to eat fish/seafood, which I find repulsive, and in my world that’s all that matters. Also, I hope you dont use the perfume, cologne, or deodorant I don’t like, because that should also be illegal… because I don’t like it. I also don’t like cigarettes or sage, so if you use that, straight to jail.

[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

People aren’t walking around smelling like fish they ate 12 hours ago. I can’t smell someone’s cologne from two cars ahead of me.

[-] pacific@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Pot smokers aren’t heating up their weed in the staff lunchroom or endangering entire ecosystems because people smoke it too much. Face it, your opinion is wack.

[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I visited NY in March. Our hotel was in Times Square. It sucked.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/nycs-disgusting-pot-stench-is-keeping-tourists-away/

I got on the train as soon as I could and went anywhere else. Every time I came home for the night it was so effing bad.

[-] pacific@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I visited Boston in October. I couldn’t stand everyone’s fishy breath. It sucks smelling so much seafood on people. Why can’t I just visit the ocean without such a horrible stench following me? It sucked.

I flew back home as soon as my vacation ended. Everyone’s. Mouth. Reeked. Of. Fish.

https://www.atlanticfish.com/october-is-national-seafood-month/

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