Thailand was the first country in Asia to legalize marijuana. Things didn’t go as planned

[MuzzyP]

fukk the government

 

[Givethanks]

Not chemically,
You aren't going to have any painful withdrawal symptoms if you suddenly quit cold turkey. Nobody has to be hospitalized because they didn't get their weed fix in time.
But it is very addictive behaviorally. Like anything people love. Food, Sex, Porn, Video Games, Social Media etc.

Exactly that, I remember when I stopped smoking weed I had small withdrawals — if you wanna call it that, but I think it was psychological; insomnia.

Also I just went from smoking and being high from sunrise to sunset then just randomly stopped. That's me tho.

Sometimes I wonder if it's the love of Food, Sex, Porn, Video Games, Social Media etc. or is it something else and it's just used as a crutch or mask

 

[Dorian Breh]

How many people gonna get addicted to Xanax over there

It’s been that way for a minute

Xans aren’t addictive like opiates or crack

You’d have to do them consistently for a while

I don’t know how much of the population can afford that

Maybe it’s a lot

 

[Dr. Acula]

Is cannabis addiction a real thing tho?

I will says it’s not addictive like you’ll have major withdrawals and even serious health impacts from stopping suddenly like harder drugs. But it is habit forming like alcohol if not a bit worse in that aspect. Like it’s easy to quit cold turkey but it’s also easy to pick it back up or easy to tell yourself “one more time wouldn’t hurt”. Not trying to sound like an afterschool special but I think in an effort to normalize it, folks have downplayed its negative effects to some extent. Like I agree with arguments like alcohol is legal and weed is less harmful in a lot of ways than that. But folks in order to get it normalized for legality act like it’s some miracle drug with no downsides which is very wrong.

Weed makes people less productive and take on less desireable traits socially compared to if people didn’t take it more often than not. If you’re looking to govern and rule society as a whole, it’s understandable if you don’t want a significant part of your population to become pot heads. They are less productive citizens.

 

[desjardins]

It was an interesting pivot
I went twice in the late 2010s and they were acting like if you smoked weed back then it was borderline a death sentence if caught
To see them switch it up so drastically was kind of weird

 

[Richard Glidewell]

All the money wasn't streaming to a few hands like they intended.........everybody was eating and they couldn't have that........they let all the pdfs violate they youths and the country is known for it, but dragon king forbid it becomes a tourist destination for..........weed........