- Opiated Thai Sticks: Myth or Truth? -

[Donald Mallard]

I did watch their video, and they said that they and most smugglers would deal with people in Bangkok, and they would sort out the rest from the delivery to the loading of the boat.

Just going by what the Thai Stick Surfers have claimed.

A lot was grown in the Golden Triangle and, again going by the Surfer guys, few if any smugglers dealt with the growers. Middle men would buy it off the farmers all over Thailand, then take it back to Bangkok, where they would then grade it and get it ready for sale.

There is a documented case in one of the Royal commissions here where Sydney under world figures had sent people on the ground in the Golden Triangle to oversee a huge grow of Thai sticks from start to finish and from memory that was intercepted off the coast some were in Asia as they had them under surveillance.

Some cannabis was grown therevas mentioned but the area known for thai stick was in isaan.
Why would Aussies be in Thailand overseeing a cannabis crop? Sounds like more bollocks to me, thais wouldn't be very welcoming to foreigners doing something like that right to start with.
Generally the pot grown in that area was just for themselves and it is not known for thai stick weed at all...
Just flogging a dead horse here, poor bloody thing died pages back..

 

[Dime]

In the mid to late 70's pol pot was killing millions In Cambodia and at the border,crazy times

 

[@hempy]

The biggest drug Cartel of its time were these guys and as the wheels started to come off their wagon train, and they all became exposed after the killing of Donald Mackay, the importation of Thai stopped.

 

[Donald Mallard]

I remember they also told people weed was coated with hash oil in the old days

So many old wives tales, and then the silly buggers that perpetuate the myths with nothing to back them up other than a dealer telling them a story... gullible fools peddling fantasy..

 

[Dime]

Ever heard of the Shaffer bros? they moved a lot of asian weed,they were with Odea to set up the biggest run ever.

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[acespicoli]

There were sticks... thats history!

 

[acespicoli]

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Be blessed

 

[ninox33]

Amen again. Looks like a good movie to keep an eye out for next year

 

[mudballs]

Oh shit...does that qualify as evidence of thai sticks? Hempy seems owed a public apology...he wont get.

 

[mudballs]

Hey you guys wanna know why we all hang out at beanbasement instead of here?

 

[Donald Mallard]

Oh shit...does that qualify as evidence of thai sticks? Hempy seems owed a public apology...he wont get.

u mean the video ?? there is no dispute about the existance of thai sticks in the 70 s and 80 s ,
am i missing something with your post , or are u missing something about what this thread is about ????

 

[Dime]

Ask yourself why they tied the flowers to sticks. It seems Maguire's take makes the most sense and perhaps the rest of what he says may have truth in it..

 

[@hempy]

Ask yourself why they tied the flowers to sticks. It seems Maguire's take makes the most sense and perhaps the rest of what he says may have truth in it..

The origins of Thai sticks are a bit of a mystery. While they only first appeared on western shores sometime in the early 1970s, the true roots of the original cannabis cigars are pretty hard to pinpoint. First produced by the Hmong and Karen hill tribes of Northern Thailand, it's estimated that they have been handcrafted for at least 500 years. So why can't you find Thai Sticks in dispensaries these days? Thanks to the global war on drugs, the last Thai Sticks were made available sometime in the early 80s. Still, the legend lives on. And with the Kingdom of Thailand recently passing massive changes to the legality of weed, we may be seeing a comeback story in the making.

 

[Dime]

I don't know but it just seems to make sense to me they were put on for convenience and had nothing to do with making the product more attractive to sell. Most of the people that grew it had no idea it was to be exported to the US(largest market) who would see it as anything but convenience and embraced novelities .At $3 a kilo or whatever the price was domestically,it hardly seems worthwile to go to the trouble of putting it on a stick for the native people .

 

[mudballs]

That's the Long Neck tribe...Karen Long Neck tribe

 

[Dime]

That's the Long Neck tribe...Karen Long Neck tribe
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Some historians say they did that to protect themselves from tiger attacks

 

[Dime]

In India they put face masks on at the back of their heads for the same reason because tigers usually attack from behind

 

[mudballs]

..i saw a big snake the other day...but that's some fkn scary shit living in tigerville

 

[chilliwilli]

No i believe you...why on earth would i think in 3000yrs of opium and marijuana cultivation no one ever fkn put the 2 together...

Because they work like shit together.

 

[mudballs]

That has no correlation to whether or not it was done, does it..