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.

  • Boiglenoight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    322·
    2 years ago

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

    • Rediphile@lemmy.caEnglish
      181·
      2 years 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.worldEnglish
        222·
        2 years ago

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

        • pacific@lemmy.worldEnglish
          151·
          2 years 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.

        • Rediphile@lemmy.caEnglish
          33·
          2 years ago

          But why can’t they make something that smells delicious though like an Indian curry or fried Swiss cheese and eat that instead of nasty-ass fish?

          • Boiglenoight@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 years ago

            God I would love it if pot smelled like the McDonalds quarter pounder with cheese. Maybe AI can figure it out.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I don’t understand how people hate it. Weed is better-smelling than tobacco by a mile and then some. Tobacco smoke irritates your lungs when you smell it, something that doesn’t happen with weed unless you have some medical condition.

      • Boiglenoight@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 years ago

        I can stand smoke. It’s annoying, but it’s fine. Pot is smells like a No. 2 pencil eraser factory on fire. It’s nowhere close to the same.

        • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          like a No. 2 pencil eraser factory on fire

          Lol! Fair enough. I think it smells a bit like skunk spray, but I didn’t mind the skunk smell from the few times that I smelled it from afar.

          • Boiglenoight@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            I can take social situations in private places like someone’s home, or even public places like parks. I expect people to enjoy themselves.

            Me and a couple friends went to Texas Roadhouse and were seated in a section that had a ~1 foot partition between booths. A little later a couple of guys were seated opposite of the partition, in a booth running parallel to ours. We were nauseated by the smell and asked to be reseated. They ironically sat us in a corner booth decorated with Willie Nelson pictures on the walls and table, with a neon sign that read Willie’s Corner. We felt bad for the couple that were shortly seated in that same booth. We had a really good meal.

            I fully support someone’s freedom to do what they want as long as they’re not bothering others. Reeking of weed while we spend upwards to 50 bucks for a meal (prices are nuts now) is unacceptable.

            • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              That’s fair. Although, tbh with you, I would’ve liked to be sitting right next to them. 😂