← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · toddbrendanfahey
Thread ID: 19788 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-08-23
2005-08-23 12:57 | User Profile
[IMG]http://www.sianews.com/collage.jpg[/IMG]
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[all photos taken by/copyright Todd Brendan Fahey 2004]
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2005-08-23 13:22 | User Profile
The collage below is of the town of Payo, Thailand. Incredible place.
Two nightspots dedicated strictly to live jazz--and, man, these guys cook. Just babes galore. Payo is like a Shangri-la (or, as "Axle" over at LibertyForum called it, the Gateway to Hell...whichever).
2005-08-23 19:48 | User Profile
Looks like fun. That girl in the red shirt (fourth column of photos) is cute.
Is pot legal in Thailand? I haven't smoked it since I was a teenager (and won't start again), but I'm just curious because of the sign there.
2005-08-26 12:58 | User Profile
Marijuana is not legal in Thailand...but it might as well be. If you're carrying around a joint or a tiny bag of ganj, all a cop's gonna ask you to do is toss it away (or give it to him: the corruption of Thai police officers is unreal). They don't want to deny foreign tourism $jack$ over personal use of pot. (Ah, hemp, tho., is legal as an agricultural/textile commodity--as it should be everywhere.)
The fascist Prime Minister Thaksin has cracked down big-time on "illegal" drugs, and it's not as cool a place as it once was--even six years ago. For no-holds-barred Drug Activity, Cambodia is ze place. Laos is very liberal with ganja use, and old women sell opium (sticky blocks of it, at about $10 a smallish block...could keep one very twisted for a couple days) pretty indiscretely and largely w/o hassle. First time I ever smoked opium was last year in Luang Prabang, Laos; heard to go to the night market and scan around for old women. Bingo.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his famous poem "Kubla Khan" on opium. & he was right. :thumbsup: Almost [I]too[/I] good.
I don't give a rat's ass what any Government says about putting a chemical into my corpus. Tobacco and alcohol are legal almost everywhere on the planet (some Arabic nations, and, for cigarettes, illegal in Bhutan, near China): So f*ck 'em.