Making green: how weed could push Thailand’s economy to new highs

[rooster59]

Making green: how weed could push Thailand’s economy to new highs

By: Janelle Retka

 

An indoor medicinal cannabis grow room

 

Last month, Thailand’s cabinet pushed through a draft law that, if passed, will legalise the use of cannabis for medical and research purposes, making it the first country in Asia to cash in on the plant’s burgeoning medical industry. If the law passes, what could this mean for the country’s economy?

 

Jim Plamondon has a vision for a legal cannabis industry in Thailand. He thinks the plant will be legalised there for both medical and recreational use in a few years. He sees small farmers’ salaries being quadrupled. Small farmers could band together to form collective fields in which uniform varieties of cannabis are produced using large-scale agricultural equipment. He sees a range of products that could be developed, and said his company is in talks with Red Bull to produce an infused energy drink. He’s already thinking about merchandising, from vaporiser pens to bongs, plus dedicated Thai research into the plant and an expansion of the country’s already-strong medical tourism to include medical marijuana.

 

But most importantly, he sees a big market for exports.

 

“The goal is to dominate the global industry,” said Plamondon, vice president of marketing for the Thai Cannabis Corporation (TCC). For a decade, TCC has functioned as a think tank, conducting research on the potential medical and economic benefits of cannabis – currently an illegal substance in the country, punishable by a fine or up to five years in prison for possession of even small amounts.

 

Full story: http://sea-globe.com/how-weed-could-push-thailands-economy-to-new-highs/

 

SOUTHEAST ASIA Globe: 2018-12-08

[AGareth2]

Thai stick

wow

maybe it will be back

[marko kok prong]

Logically it makes sense,but as we know logic plays a very minor role here,and under the dinosaur that is currently in charge i cannot see it happen.

[namatjira]

Jim is the reason that the legislation is getting delayed,

they have to get rid of all the farang companies trying to patent everything to profit themselves...yes, Jim has a million ideas on making money and working with Red Bull, he has a whole range of money making ventures, vaporizers, pens, yep he’s got it all covered.....Jim’s about money money money.........Jim somehow has to have his snout removed from the feeding bowl......

its not about patents and farang corporations circling the export trade....thankfully it appears thethais haveother ideas.....and Jim’s corporation of greed is not one of them.

jims goal is to dominate the global industry....

today thailand tomorrow the world...buy Jim’s weed ..... no thanks Jim.

[Ulic]

Don't bother me with the minutiae and details, just tell me where to get my prescription and where I can have it filled.  

[PETERTHEEATER]

“The goal is to dominate the global industry,”

 

Thailand, the hub of Ganja!

[Justgrazing]

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Small farmers could band together to form collective fields in which uniform varieties of cannabis are produced using large-scale agricultural equipment.

No " we'll compress and bale the whole plant " cabbage commercial weed then if they are gonna go down that road .. It needs more of a cultured approach with emphasis on quality and choice of strain to entice the discerning 'erm client .. Bit like the wide range of availability that the Dutch do .. 

[connda]

If the Thai government got off it's moralistic high-horse right now, legalized marijuana this coming year, and allowed it's cultivation and export - this entire country would experience a quintessential shift from in wealth across the broad - probably enough to drive the country into First World status within a decade.  Thailand would become the Saudi Arabia of marijuana.  Just like a country floating on oil.

Won't happen though.  Money is less important than power to those who control.  I doubt the current batch of Bangkok elites could stand a sudden explosion of wealth in rural Thailand.  Then suddenly those cheeky peasant farmers become on equal economic parity as the 'old Thai' money.  Poor, freeholder farmers out of debt and accumulating wealth!  And marijuana makes people feel good. 
No way either will be allowed to happen.  Sad.

 

 

[ThaiFelix]

One look at the photo and you can see they havnt got a clue what they are doing.

[scottiejohn]

And if they do legalize that crap all the poor idiots who are sucked into its use, who know nothing about it's "so called" benefits, will just become more zombie cannon fodder to the money grabbing mill.  

 

[alex8912]

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2018/12/05/massachusetts-marijuana-tax

This is just one small state with about 6.5 million people. The future $$$ of tax revenue is amazing. Will Thailand just blah blah blah about it or will another nearby country get the money?? 

[alex8912]

7 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

And if they do legalize that crap all the poor idiots who are sucked into its use, who know nothing about it's "so called" benefits, will just become more zombie cannon fodder to the money grabbing mill.  

 

What the heck are you talking about? 

Where is your proof of such nonsense? 

[alex8912]

1 hour ago, Justgrazing said:

No " we'll compress and bale the whole plant " cabbage commercial weed then if they are gonna go down that road .. It needs more of a cultured approach with emphasis on quality and choice of strain to entice the discerning 'erm client .. Bit like the wide range of availability that the Dutch do .. 

The Dutch don’t even come close to how the states in the USA are doing it AND taxing it. It’s not even really legal there ( many people THINK it is) it’s just decriminalized. I always wondered why the Dutch do not do it right. Take a look at the link above in my post. Those numbers are amazing.

[scottiejohn]

8 minutes ago, alex8912 said:

What the heck are you talking about? 

Where is your proof of such nonsense? 

From those two comments you must be using the crap already! If not something stronger,  which is what this nonsense and stupidity will lead to.  The prisons may empty initially but then will then be refilled while  the hospitals and mental institutes overflow.

The road to madness in every way.

[Lacessit]

9 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

From those two comments you must be using the crap already! If not something stronger,  which is what this nonsense and stupidity will lead to.  The prisons may empty initially but then will then be refilled while  the hospitals and mental institutes overflow.

The road to madness in every way.

I have never smoked pot. However, the way I understand it is pot smokers are far less dangerous than those who abuse the legal drug, alcohol.

[madmen]

I have never smoked pot. However, the way I understand it is pot smokers are far less dangerous than those who abuse the legal drug, alcohol.

Pot is antisocial. If you ever been around pot heads they as boring as f***

Alcohol when drunk normally is a far better buzz

[Lupatria]

9 hours ago, rooster59 said:

weed could push Thailand’s economy to new highs

I especially like the term "new"...

[Top Chef]

Is this blog what they mean by "Refer Madness"?

[connda]

4 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

And if they do legalize that crap all the poor idiots who are sucked into its use, who know nothing about it's "so called" benefits, will just become more zombie cannon fodder to the money grabbing mill.  

 

No doubt their were 'letter's to the editor' in most American newspapers in 1933 using the same argument against the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.

[alex8912]

5 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

From those two comments you must be using the crap already! If not something stronger,  which is what this nonsense and stupidity will lead to.  The prisons may empty initially but then will then be refilled while  the hospitals and mental institutes overflow.

The road to madness in every way.

How?  What are YOU on? 

Many countries have legalized and also decriminalized marijuana already and nothing of the sorts you described happened. 

Marijuana is not the drug that leads to other drugs. You know what the most popular gateway drug is?? 

Alcohol!  Did drinking booze lead you to harder drugs? Where in the world did you get the idea that marijuana makes people mental?  Did you just watch reefer madness? Get a grip. 

[namatjira]

5 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

From those two comments you must be using the crap already! If not something stronger,  which is what this nonsense and stupidity will lead to.  The prisons may empty initially but then will then be refilled while  the hospitals and mental institutes overflow.

The road to madness in every way.

Better go easy on the Chang Scottie, I think all that alcohol over the years might have blown your brains out...alcohol does that.

its a shocking drug...

[Damrongsak]

13 hours ago, AGareth2 said:

Thai stick

wow

maybe it will be back

 

[l4ml4m]

The problem is that farmers won't benefit anything because they are too stupid/uneducated. They should fight and even threaten of civil war to get their share on the cannabis profit, or they will get nothing.

[scottiejohn]

13 hours ago, alex8912 said:

nothing of the sorts you described happened.

The Centre for Social Justice said evidence from home and abroad suggests that cannabis use is linked to mental health problems such as psychosis or impaired thinking.

Legalisation of cannabis would drive a million young people to take drugs and see 100,000 become addicted, a think-tank warned yesterday.
 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6472821/Legalising-cannabis-mean-100-000-people-addicted-drug-think-tank-warns.html

 

NHS England state that 10% of regular users become addicted.  Check out the recent Yale University study on trying to cure Addiction to the drug. Just use Google, but not the biased sites who are selling it.  

Wake up and take your green leave tinted specs off and come into the real sane world, not your drug crazed one

 

[alex8912]

1 hour ago, scottiejohn said:

The Centre for Social Justice said evidence from home and abroad suggests that cannabis use is linked to mental health problems such as psychosis or impaired thinking.

Legalisation of cannabis would drive a million young people to take drugs and see 100,000 become addicted, a think-tank warned yesterday.
 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6472821/Legalising-cannabis-mean-100-000-people-addicted-drug-think-tank-warns.html

 

NHS England state that 10% of regular users become addicted.  Check out the recent Yale University study on trying to cure Addiction to the drug. Just use Google, but not the biased sites who are selling it.  

Wake up and take your green leave tinted specs off and come into the real sane world, not your drug crazed one

 

Marijuana is not an addictive drug. There are no withdrawal symptoms oif used daily and then stopped like alcohol. Many many posters can even prove this. Just because it becomes legal does NOT make people who have never tried it start using it!! That is just BS. If you really wanted to try it it’s avaiable almost everywhere. Your “impaired thinking” reason is a joke because THAT is alcohol and many drugs. If pot causes psychosis a billion people would be crazy in the world. You can pick and choose articles to say this or that but entire Western countries are legalizing it with lots of research done and it simply helps many people with their illness and many enjoy it recreationally every day with out any issues. I live in Massachusetts half the year where many professional people including teachers, doctors, lawyers, scientists and many others now smoke or take edibles ( legally now and it was decriminalized before) and all fuction just find at work. No one I know has started using it recreationally because it’s legal now. If they didn’t smoke before they don’t smoke now. 

[scottiejohn]

44 minutes ago, alex8912 said:

Marijuana is not an addictive drug

Yale university have just published their results on trials to combat the addiction problem.  Go Google, Go read.

 

It is addictive and it is psychotic. 

Stop kidding yourself(s).

I don't really care what you do to your brain, if your using the crap you have probably damaged it anyway.

[HerbalEd]

On 12/8/2018 at 6:28 PM, scottiejohn said:

From those two comments you must be using the crap already! If not something stronger,  which is what this nonsense and stupidity will lead to.  The prisons may empty initially but then will then be refilled while  the hospitals and mental institutes overflow.

The road to madness in every way.

Easy to see you don't like being confused by facts. Pot has been  legal in my home state of Oregon for several years now -- also Colorado and other states -- and none of "the hospitals and mental institutes" are overflowing. What you "assume" is not what's actually happening. 

 

If you're actually interested in facts, spend a little time on Google and read the reports of what's actually happening since Cannabis has been legalized in many USA states, and in Holland. Or are you one of those who call "fake news" when you read/hear/watch news reports that don't confirm their assumptions?

 

[KneeDeep]

6 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

The Centre for Social Justice said evidence from home and abroad suggests that cannabis use is linked to mental health problems such as psychosis or impaired thinking.

Legalisation of cannabis would drive a million young people to take drugs and see 100,000 become addicted, a think-tank warned yesterday.
 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6472821/Legalising-cannabis-mean-100-000-people-addicted-drug-think-tank-warns.html

 

NHS England state that 10% of regular users become addicted.  Check out the recent Yale University study on trying to cure Addiction to the drug. Just use Google, but not the biased sites who are selling it.  

Wake up and take your green leave tinted specs off and come into the real sane world, not your drug crazed one

 

 

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) is an independent centre-right think tank co-founded in 2004 by Iain Duncan Smith and Tim Montgomerie.

 

It's a nice made up name. It seems his Universal Credit idea is also being lauded for it's 'social justice'. Penalising single mothers who go out to work in one instance and increasing homelessness and rent arrears in another.

It appears than people who are shifted to UC tend to be worse off than they were before. 

 

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

 

In other words, the whole thing is a pile of steaming BS.

Vulnerable communities? What's going to happen to them if it is legalised?

There is this assumption that people are not drinking alcohol or smoking tobacco or taking some other kind of legal, even prescribed substance. 

 

In fact we are probably in the top ten of alcohol consumption in the whole world. Isn't it the national pastime to go for a drink? Is that healthy or is it simply a recreational drug?

 

So the suggestion that everything will take a turn for the worse because your local drug dealer will be out of a job......oh wait...that is perhaps the issue. That the local dealers out of a job will not only add to the unemployment queue, but they may turn to other crimes in order to replace lost income.

 

If you are seeking a scenario in life where there are only positives, you'll be a long time a looking.

 

The fact is that the natural substance has been proven to be beneficial

Like any substance you will get abusers; Alcohol, cigarettes, food.

But do alcohol and cigarettes have any positive benefits for health?

Alcohol is a depressant. Cigarettes, a poison. But because they can have the effect of calming the masses and filling coffers with gold, nothing is said.

 

Now certain governments have lined themselves up to profit from cannabis, they are ready to admit that it was never as bad as they suggested.

 

Now this scaremongering nonsense? I tried it as a teenager and I'm still here to tell the tale.

 

How about a balanced report instead of that biased crap?

 

 

 

[KneeDeep]

4 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

Yale university have just published their results on trials to combat the addiction problem.  Go Google, Go read.

 

It is addictive and it is psychotic. 

Stop kidding yourself(s).

I don't really care what you do to your brain, if your using the crap you have probably damaged it anyway.

 

If it , as you suggest, addictive, then why is it suggested that just 10% become dependent?

Secondly, are you referring to Yale Medicine?

 

Which trials? Why have you not linked to them? WEith your super intact brain, it should be a doddle for you.

What was the outcome?

 

How about a little less copy and paste and instead debate what you actually know. I suspect you don't actually know anything.

 

They do all kinds of research at Yale Medicine, also reporting on the positive effects.

 

Having a one track mind or fixed point of view isn't actually a boon. Intelligence allows for opening up your mind to all arguments.

 

 

[Rimbuman]

On 12/8/2018 at 6:12 PM, scottiejohn said:

And if they do legalize that crap all the poor idiots who are sucked into its use, who know nothing about it's "so called" benefits, will just become more zombie cannon fodder to the money grabbing mill.  

 

And not talking about what will happen the already some of the deadliest roads yet.