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I honestly don't know. I've definitely had local Thai weed that wasn't very potent. Like I was on a beach on an island earlier this month and got lunch at a restaurant and the owner was like, "Hey want to hit a bong with me?" so I did and it was like a light breezy high for a couple of minutes. But then I went to a place near my house and bought a gram of oreo gelato wedding cake or something and I had to coach myself through getting home because reality had come unsown. Some of my Thai friends have some locally sourced weed they want me to try this weekend, and it says "Thai stick" on the bag but I'm not sure if "Thai stick" refers to a specific strain of weed or just weed grown in Thailand in general.
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Isn’t a Thai stick an actual form factor, like a blunt or a joint? Rolled in newspaper I think (source: a loquacious Thai high limit baccarat flea)
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My actual knowledge of weed is really not that great and I am not much of a smoker to begin with. I typically just buy a couple of grams of weed and make brownies and those do me good.
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thai farmers used to tie bamboo sticks to the cannabis to add strength so huge buds don't go flopping over, like you'd do with tomatoes. then they'd dry them and compress the whole thing into a roll with the stick still inside and sell them like that. nowadays people replicate that by skewering a bunch of buds then compressing them and wrapping them in leaves like a big green cigar on a stick. thai stick can also refer to the variety of plant they commonly grew in thailand because that's the stuff that would come on a stick.
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This is apparently what I'm getting tomorrow. I remain dubious as to what it will look like when I tear it open. And this is what my friend grew on their farm. Doesn't look particularly great, but I'm happy to give it a try.  Compare that to what I buy from the store.  Thailand is a land of contrasts. Anyway, this is the latest batch of brownies I made. They're not the most powerful I've made, but that was on purpose. The high takes about 2 hours to kick in and lasts for like 3 total, but is relatively mild and is mostly just useful for falling asleep and waking up feeling refreshed. I have made brownies prior to this batch that were described as "nuclear" by the individuals who tested them, but that's not really useful for the middle of the week. These though pair great with a bottle of Leo.  Anyway, if any of you end up in Thailand in the near future, I'm always happy to share!
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Stink Billyums posted:thai farmers used to tie bamboo sticks to the cannabis to add strength so huge buds don't go flopping over, like you'd do with tomatoes. then they'd dry them and compress the whole thing into a roll with the stick still inside and sell them like that. nowadays people replicate that by skewering a bunch of buds then compressing them and wrapping them in leaves like a big green cigar on a stick. thai stick can also refer to the variety of plant they commonly grew in thailand because that's the stuff that would come on a stick. Yeh I was curious if you can still buy it in stick format Yes I grew up reading the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers why do you ask
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I'm in jiangmen bitches. It's like impossible to get RMB here. My wife had to get her sister to exchange money because my wife's ID is expired and even then they wouldn't give us bills, all the money got zapped onto her mom's phone which we now have to take with us if we want to buy anything. Also, when we got off the plane in HK there were signs all over saying "CBD IS STILL A DRUG" 7 years in prison for something non-psychoactive. I ate all my edibles on the plane. Also been impossible to access porn. If I want to jerk off I got to draw some huge boobs and use that so I'm getting pretty good at drawing boobs.
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It's super weird how HK is way more strict on that than mainland China. CBD is barely restricted in the mainland. And that's true for a bunch of other things, too. There were all those vape regulations that went into effect last year but at least there still are vapes.
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Mar 31, 2023 03:12
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  YAY for Chinese cartoons! Especially ones where the wolfwife beats the wolfhusband with a frying pan.
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Lol at someone experiencing the shock of scan this qr code to do absolutely anything every ten seconds
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One of the dads I met through my kids daycare is convinced weed will be legal in 10 yrs here in South Korea. Like the infrastructure is being quietly laid down. Im wondering wtf legal weed would look like here, if we'll see smoked out businessmen laying in the streets. Speaking of 2 days ago I was walking with my toddler and we discovered a passed out guy in the street, around 4:30pm. I started knudging him woth my foot "Seonsaegnim! Quinchanueseyo?!" suddenly more people showed up and called 119, the cops came and started slapping the guy, shaking him violently till he got up. My kid didnt even notice the commotion, he just kept looking up at the sky, "Moon! MOON!"
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Mar 31, 2023 06:44
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i reiterate my cold prediciton that japan will legalize it in the mid to late 2030s
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lol that Asia is so backwards the emergency number is 119
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lmao what kind of country has to resort to 9 for an emergency number
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119 is for the fire department and ambulances, 110 is for the cops
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Which number for the secret police?
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It's kind of weird to me that porn is also technically illegal in Thailand and some of the bigger sites are blocked. You'll see on the news every few months about a couple being arrested for running an OnlyFans page as well. I remember when I first moved here, I'd go to like a tech mall to look at video game peripherals or computer components and then dudes would casually walk up to you, pull a binder out of a trench coat, and flip through pages of pornographic VCDs for sale. It was kind of quaint really. Very different than Taiwan where there are porn and sex shops on every street corner, but don't you dare look at a marijuana cigarette.
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Atlas Hugged posted:It's kind of weird to me that porn is also technically illegal in Thailand and some of the bigger sites are blocked. You'll see on the news every few months about a couple being arrested for running an OnlyFans page as well. My cable package comes with two free VOD porn movies every week, I don't think they advertise this fact.
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Mar 31, 2023 09:10
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GoutPatrol posted:My cable package comes with two free VOD porn movies every week, I don't think they advertise this fact. Twice a week whether you need it or not!
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kntfkr posted:
While I applaud taking the opportunity to practice the fine arts, torrenting porn doesn't require a VPN. There are plenty of domestic addresses that don't need a VPN too for that late 90's and 00's porn experience.
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Wait, y'all need porn to jack off? What about the infinite power of imagination? Barring that, I assume you have no memories sufficiently hot enough to get you goin due to your ineffectiveness in bed.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Very different than Taiwan where there are porn and sex shops on every street corner, but don't you dare look at a marijuana cigarette. Lol i was gonna say in response to korea/japan legalising weed discussion, i don't see that happening in taiwan any time soon. they banned vaping just a couple of weeks ago and i'm always quite surprised by how anti-drug a lot of people here are, even though the people i talk to and work with are mostly young, progressive, educated etc. it's weird edit: i had a look on shopee and all of the tobacco vape stuff is gone, but you can still buy weed vape batteries lmao yugioh mishima fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Mar 31, 2023 |
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yugioh mishima posted:Lol i was gonna say in response to korea/japan legalising weed discussion, i don't see that happening in taiwan any time soon. they banned vaping just a couple of weeks ago and i'm always quite surprised by how anti-drug a lot of people here are, even though the people i talk to and work with are mostly young, progressive, educated etc. it's weird Well I guess the question is why would the young, progressive, educated folks be inherently pro-legalization?
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Because if you're educated, you're expected to actually have some knowledge about science and how the legalisation of weed can lead to fewer deaths due to alcohol and opiates, and that weed itself is a fairly benign substance if you treat it like most (non-alcoholic) people treat their beer.
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I don’t think education is going to make people from other cultures inherently see the world the way you do. I largely agree that marijuana legalization would be good, but I don’t think that a person should just expect someone to instantly agree with them about it just because they had access to higher education
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what would the reaction of Confucious be if he took a bong rip to the face
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Taiwan is weird because betel nut puts insane pressure on the healthcare industry since it causes cancer with some regularity. I've seen loads of elderly Taiwanese men missing half their faces and the betel nut is almost certainly the cause. There's just no way they're going to regulate or ban it though. Same with cigarettes. Too much of the local economy depends on it. Meanwhile, marijuana, which can largely be safely consumed if you don't smoke it, is still treated like the Devil's Lettuce from a 1950s propaganda film. I have personally vomited in the streets of Taipei because I've had too much to drink and been offered another drink to wash my mouth out on more than one occasion, but marijuana iS dAnGeRoUs. Taiwan is also still largely in favor of the death penalty last I checked as well despite literally an infinite number of reasons to be opposed to it. High education and progressive values in one area don't automatically translate into shared values with other progressives around the world is what I'm saying.
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thetoughestbean posted:I don’t think education is going to make people from other cultures inherently see the world the way you do. I largely agree that marijuana legalization would be good, but I don’t think that a person should just expect someone to instantly agree with them about it just because they had access to higher education Weed suffers a weird reputation across a bunch of Asia since it is associated with Anti-authoritarianism, relaxing, and urban black culture rather than being productive 16 hours a day. For some reason ketamine and meth are seen as better choices.
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thetoughestbean posted:I don’t think education is going to make people from other cultures inherently see the world the way you do. I largely agree that marijuana legalization would be good, but I don’t think that a person should just expect someone to instantly agree with them about it just because they had access to higher education The good thing about facts is that you don't need to agree with them for them to be true. The core of higher education is finding facts, doubting them, and proving or disproving them with scientific research or literature. Someone is still free to think 'Weed is bad because relaxing in your time off work is worse than preventing people from becoming criminals in the illegal weed market/using alcohol as a way to black out/etc' but... yeah.
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Atlas Hugged posted:
I would say in my 10 years (Jesus) of teaching high school kids, if I ask there has been a significant shift in what kids say to me in favor of banning it. If I asked a class in 2015 most kids in class would be for it, now that has definitely shifted. not a real sample size, only asking rich kids, etc, but it has changed.
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GoutPatrol posted:I would say in my 10 years (Jesus) of teaching high school kids, if I ask there has been a significant shift in what kids say to me in favor of banning it. If I asked a class in 2015 most kids in class would be for it, now that has definitely shifted. not a real sample size, only asking rich kids, etc, but it has changed. Do you mean they would be for the death penalty in 2015 and that’s changing or for banning the death penalty in 2015 and that’s changed? LimaBiker posted:The good thing about facts is that you don't need to agree with them for them to be true. The core of higher education is finding facts, doubting them, and proving or disproving them with scientific research or literature. People don’t base their worldviews on facts.
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Cultural inertia is a big deal too - tobacco is widely known to be harmful but plenty of educated people in China are still using it (certainly far more than in the US), whereas weed is relatively more exotic and stigmatized.
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Renreeja posted:One of the dads I met through my kids daycare is convinced weed will be legal in 10 yrs here in South Korea. Like the infrastructure is being quietly laid down. Im wondering wtf legal weed would look like here, if we'll see smoked out businessmen laying in the streets. I don't even think weed will be legal here in New Zealand in 10 years.
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K兒 just has a better ring to it than 大麻
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Beartaco posted:I don't even think weed will be legal here in New Zealand in 10 years. it's like that so cops can bust people they don't like and whoever's not sharing
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WarpedLichen posted:Cultural inertia is a big deal too - tobacco is widely known to be harmful but plenty of educated people in China are still using it (certainly far more than in the US), whereas weed is relatively more exotic and stigmatized. I'm not entirely sure how true this is. This may be apocryphal, but I remember being told that Japanese insurance companies for instance rejected Western studies on the harmful effects of tobacco because the studies were not done on Japanese people, so they didn't count, and that was justification enough to ignore the research. Sure, every country here prints the lung pictures and other tumors on the cartons, but no one pays attention to that.
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thetoughestbean posted:I don’t think education is going to make people from other cultures inherently see the world the way you do. I largely agree that marijuana legalization would be good, but I don’t think that a person should just expect someone to instantly agree with them about it just because they had access to higher education it's just as odd - if not more so - that people in the west have access to lots of information about how alcohol is loving terrible for you, and yet in the uk for instance alcohol is such a huge part of life and so many people (including very educated people) drink dangerous amounts pretty much every weekend. every culture has its weirdnesses and things that don't quite make sense. i'm not judging them for it or expecting them to agree with me, but i can still think it's weird. it's ok! everyone is weird
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thetoughestbean posted:Do you mean they would be for the death penalty in 2015 and that’s changing or for banning the death penalty in 2015 and that’s changed? They used to be pro death penalty and that is changing (for the better) I ate so much loving ice cream at the Singapore museum of ice cream but now my tummy feels empty even though I ate so much ice cream so I'm getting moussaka
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Atlas Hugged posted:I'm not entirely sure how true this is. This may be apocryphal, but I remember being told that Japanese insurance companies for instance rejected Western studies on the harmful effects of tobacco because the studies were not done on Japanese people, so they didn't count, and that was justification enough to ignore the research. that may have been true at some point, but insurance rates in japan are higher for smokers now.
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