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As the title of this video suggests, we are asking the question, 'was Cannabis legalization a botched effort here in Thailand?' Well apparently, according to the Reuters News service and the Bangkok Post, it is. Let's check this out. 

I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Bangkok Post, bangkokpost.com, the article is titled: Thailand's big Casino gamble hangs on fine print. Quoting directly: "But experts warn success will come only by playing its cards right on regulation.."  I love the writing style of like the Bangkok Post and Reuters where the writing style is, 'oh we don't want to have too much freedom in there. We have got to get the balance right,' which means totalitarian oversight and constant regulation by a bunch of bureaucrats because God forbid, if we don't have that, what will happen? People might actually be free. My goodness, what will we do? Quoting further: "..an area in which Southeast Asia's second largest economy has a patchy record." Says who? Says who? By the way, Reuters News Service, "news service" - used to be the intelligence arm of the Rothschild Banking family, so who says? Patchy record? Really? Europe is such a great example of just pristine rule of law this last century? Are you kidding me? Quoting further: ".. such as its botched efforts to legalize Cannabis in 2022." Botched efforts? It looks pretty legal to me, so if their efforts were to legalize Cannabis, they were successful. If what you are talking about is there's not an amazing amount of totalitarian oversight on the Cannabis business and Thais are free to ply their trade in Thailand the way God intended, if that's what you are talking about, well then yeah, we have got a little botchedness going on out here.

At the end of the day, let me be very, very clear. I thought Anutin Charnvirakul's move as Public Health Minister during the Emergency Decree to pull that off the narcotics list and then when the Emergency Decree ended via the Doctrine of Codification acting as effectively a mechanism of estoppel from unilaterally just saying, 'oh we're just going to keep saying this is illegal' because they couldn't, I thought that was a move on par with Robert Moses the Power Broker himself. I urge anybody, throw this up on screen producer, Robert Moses, the Power Broker, it's written by a guy named Robert Caro; it's a great book. That move that legalized Cannabis was on par with the political acumen of Mr. Robert Moses. That was a brilliant legislative move; it was a brilliant political move. It also created an entirely new market for an entirely new cash crop for Thailand that is having a tremendously beneficial impact upon this economy so if that's botched, hand me more "botched", give me more "botched", keep "botched" coming off the conveyor belt please because "botched" is working out pretty well. No it is not botched. The era of the World Economic Forum and the elites from Europe telling the world what to do is over. Your era has ended. Thailand will make her own laws, will make her own rules, will set her own policy and set her own regulation especially as it pertains to Cannabis and we are sick and tired of everybody from outside this country coming in and telling us how bad we are for wanting to live free. This is wrong. Reuters and every other foreign agent shouldn't be coming into Thailand telling Thais how their legislative process is somehow “botched”, okay? Thais seem pretty okay with the situation; the retail commercial real estate sector is actually doing well in this jurisdiction. Could the folks from Reuters please point to me to one jurisdiction around the world, that can say the same thing that's within the Western ambit, okay.

The fact is Thailand is doing quite well. Cannabis policy was foresighted, it was well thought out. Okay, yes politically it was implemented in kind of an unorthodox and creative way, but it worked. And at the end of the day, what works should be what counts. The clip I used for the thumbnail in this; I will put a link in the description below. It is from that film Kindergarten Cop where the principal is sitting around going, 'you did all these unorthodox things' and he kind of starts defending himself and then she says, 'hold on, you didn't let me finish. But it worked'. And then she goes into how good he is as a teacher and everything. I look at this Cannabis issue the same way. Anutin made his moves and they worked and it's worked out well for the country. Tourism is up; the Commercial Real Estate Sector is doing good. Despite the narrative they are trying to push in the media over here in Thailand that we have somehow got economic problems, we had a bumper high season, okay? It was through the roof. We haven't even seen the numbers yet, I suspect because it doesn't align with their narrative that they are trying to push that everything is terrible here so they can create an excuse to go in and print a bunch of money and put this country even further in the hole, which wouldn't be good for anybody here. So long story short is I'm sick and tired of hearing Westerners talking about the Cannabis sector with this disdain and smug condescension. Cannabis is legal in Thailand, it's regulated, move on.