Thailand was the first country in Asia to decriminalize cannabis, but the experiment appears to have gone awry, as the Thai government this last week moved to backtrack the policies, and impose new rules designed to rein in the weed ‘scene’.

As of last Thursday (26), customers now need a doctor’s prescription to buy pot — limiting consumption of the plant to medical purposes only.

CNN reported:

“Thailand’s public health minister told CNN on Wednesday he hopes to eventually recriminalize cannabis as a narcotic, in what would be a major reversal from Thailand’s liberal approach since declassification, which saw a boom of dispensaries and weed cafes opening across the country, particularly in tourist areas.

‘This must be clearly understood: cannabis is permitted for medical use only’, Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsutin told CNN.”

Thailand’s Health Ministry will now regulate cannabis as ‘a controlled herb’.

“That means licensed cannabis shops can now only sell to customers with a medical prescription. They are also required to keep detailed sales records and face regular inspections by authorities, Somsak said. New rules also put stricter controls on growers and farmers, ban commercial advertising and prohibit cannabis from being sold in vending machines or online.

More than 18,000 licensed cannabis shops across the country will have to adapt or risk closing. Penalties for sellers caught violating the new rules include up to one year in prison or a fine of 20,000 baht ($620), though the health ministry is proposing new legislation that would significantly increase this.”

Thai authorities also banned advertising of cannabis products, changing the scenery at tourist hotspots in Bangkok.

“We want to tell tourists they are welcome to enjoy Thailand’s culture and nature — but Thailand should not be seen as a destination for recreational cannabis use,” Somsak said.”

After the legalization, the government had intended to ‘regulate the industry’, but when it failed to do so, recreational use became rampant across the kingdom, particularly in areas popular with foreigners.

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UP IN SMOKE: Thailand to Back Down on Cannabis Legalization a Mere Two Years After Decriminalizing It

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Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has claimed that the policy of protecting illegal aliens from deportation has “kept New York safe for decades.”

In an interview with NBC’s Meet The Press, Mamdani also pledged to “fight back” against ICE should he win election in November.

Here is a transcript of the exchange:

WELKER: Let’s talk about immigration and deportation. Are you committed to keeping New York as a sanctuary city?

MAMDANI: Absolutely. Because ultimately, we’ve seen that this is a policy that has kept New Yorkers safe for decades. It’s a policy that had previously been defended by Democrats and Republicans alike until the fear-mongering of this current mayor.

It’s a policy that we’ve seen ensures that New Yorkers can get out of the shadows and into the full life of the city that they belong to. And it’s one that I will be proud to stand up for.”

WELKER: Well, you know, the borders are. Tom Homan has said that he is planning to deploy ICE agents to New York worksite enforcement to essentially increase and enhance the number of ICE agents here.

If that happens on your watch, how do you plan to handle it

MAMDANI:  We have to stand up and fight back, and we haven’t seen that from our current mayor, who has instead been working with the Trump administration to assist in their goal of building the single largest deportation force in American history.

I mean, we saw ICE agents arrest a migrant at Federal Plaza. We saw NYPD officers arresting a pastor who was peacefully observing that arrest.

Those days are going to come to an end when I’m the mayor. The NYPD’s job is to create public safety in the city, not to assist ICE agents in their mission to attack the very fabric of this city.

Watch the clip below:

A proud Muslim communist, Mamdan’s other policies include defunding the police, introducing state-run grocery stores and “globalizing the intifada.”

America, meet New York City’s Democrat Nominee for Mayor. pic.twitter.com/yDDyzBMtun

— America (@america) June 25, 2025

If elected in November, things in New York City are going to get much worse than they already are.

Meet Zohran Mamdani: A Muslim Communist Who Wants to ‘Defund The Police’ and ‘Globalize The Intifada’

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A 2023 study in the British Journal of Social Psychology has recently gone viral, confirming objectively what critical thinkers in the previous decade had already deduced: that the political right “diverges widely” in thought, whereas the political left “coalesces around a very narrow set of opinion.”

On Monday, June 23, Rasmussen’s Mark Mitchell, whose record of predictive accuracy as a pollster stands alone among all pundits in the previous American decade, posted a highlight from the viral British Journal of Social Psychology study.

If you get a chance check out the full paper. It’s pretty interesting once you start getting into the details, especially when neutral/transitional parties are factored in https://t.co/JKa7oZzBtU pic.twitter.com/TsMCa13Eju

— Doug Stewart #freesamourai (@realDougStewart) June 24, 2025

The most widely circulated response to Mitchell’s post linked the full fifteen page study from the British Journal of Social Psychology, which published five different charts, or “heatmaps,” all confirming, based on network modeling data, the same hypothesis that the researchers tendered: that, overwhelmingly, leftists tend to engage in “groupthink,” while members of the political right tend to think independently.

The psychological study posited that personal attitudes shape political identities. The researchers formed clusters of left-wing participants and right-wing participants within the study. Then, the researchers surveyed the extreme degree to which the participants held their views on key political issues.

According to the British Journal of Social Psychology:

“A visual inspection of the network reveals two attitude clusters. To understand whether partisanship was a latent factor overlaying the two clusters, we generated a heatmap by correlating the selection of each node with participants’ self-reported partisan identification. As shown in Figure 2b, the cluster reflecting the Democrat belief-system almost exclusively contained extreme attitudes as indicated by strong disagreement with each of the eight political issues. Conversely, the cluster reflecting the Republican belief-system contained a wider range of attitude responses ranging from mild disagreement to maximum agreement.”

The British Journal of Social Psychology study was highly conclusive.

In the United States, ever since President Trump became the Republican nominee for president in 2016, Americans have witnessed and endured the ever-changing, yet always pitifully simplistic, rhetoric of the political left.

In lockstep, the left first claimed that President Trump must be disqualified from seeking the office of president, despite the United States boasting the world’s most advanced constitutional republic in history, capable of accommodating any freely and fairly elected leader.

Then, the left claimed that President Trump must be impeached as president, and convicted, for allegedly colluding with Russia in the 2016 election, despite Democrats presenting no evidence of President Trump committing a crime.

In 2019, after President Trump was exonerated with regard to Russia, Democrats demanded that President Trump be removed from office for holding a private phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. During the phone call, President Trump rightfully urged Ukraine to re-open its investigation into the Biden family’s foreign influence and corruption.

With Hunter Biden evidently being the recipient of over $3 million from Burisma Holdings – a nefarious, former Ukranian natural gas company – astoundingly, Joe Biden himself bragged about issuing a quid pro quo to Ukraine while Vice President: the US would promise to withhold $1 billion in “foreign aid” to Ukraine, unless, and until, Ukraine fired its Prosecutor General investigating the corruption of Burisma Holdings.

Even after the US Senate acquitted President Trump regarding his private phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, certain left-wing political leaders, civilians, and the Deep State acted most maliciously preceding, and in the aftermath of, the 2020 election.

From 2020-2022, left-wing political leaders and civilians forced masks upon healthy children, at all hours of the day, punishing, and suspending from school, those children who gasped for air, refusing to comply.

Left-wing political leaders then banned, and arrested civilians, who gathered at churches for worship, and to attend weddings and funerals.

Simultaneously, left-wing leaders such as Joe Biden held haywire political rallies in which adults sat ten feet apart within individual circles taped to the ground, wearing masks, outdoors.

In the final weeks leading up to the 2020 election, Deep State intelligence operatives malevolently conspired with the Mainstream Media and Democrat Party to label the mere existence of Hunter Biden’s blatantly incriminating laptop as “Russian disinformation.” According to polling, this high-strung disinformation campaign demonstrably swayed voters in the 2020 election.

In 2021, the Deep State, Mainstream Media, and Democrat Party framed President Trump as “inciting an insurrection,” simply for attempting to peacefully and lawfully contest an election that employed numerous unprecedented, unlawful, and unverifiable voting procedures.

Once President Trump was again acquitted by the US Senate, millions of patriots remained de-platformed from social media merely for voicing their opinions on the 2020 presidential election.

Although struck down by the US Supreme Court, the Biden administration then attempted to institute a national vaccine mandate, forcing all working Americans to take indefinite doses of an experimental vaccine.

Finally, the Department of Justice, along with various rogue District Attorneys under the Biden administration, pursued extreme measures of lawfare, attempting to imprison President Trump.

The average left-wing American, to be sure, could not explain, or so much as name, the charges levied against President Trump by the Biden administration. Yet, according to AP polling from July, 2024, 78% of Democrats believed that President Trump should serve prison time.

Conclusively, the modern American political left has demonstrated, as evidenced by the British Journal of Social Psychology study, that left-wing ideology remains flatlined, in spite of all change in the political arena.

When Americans challenge left-wing leaders in power, the left responds, in turn, by silencing and imprisoning Americans. Modern left-wing political leaders have proven to neither cherish our sacred individual liberties, nor prioritize equal justice under the law.

When will the American left learn to tolerate and respect differences of opinion?

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Multiple firefighters have been shot in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, while responding to a brush fire.

CNN reported that police and emergency crews are responding to an active shooter situation on East Nettleton Gulch Road in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office has warned residents in an emergency alert message that there’s an “Active shooter at Canfield Mountain. Injuries are reported, but the extent is unknown. Avoid the area.”

BREAKING: *Shooting* Multiple firefighters reportedly shot while responding to brush fire in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho pic.twitter.com/5VbQfIHwc7

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) June 29, 2025

Photo shows a HUGE law enforcement presence in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. pic.twitter.com/aTazvhxnhw

— (@Nerdy_Addict) June 29, 2025

Per CNN:

Multiple firefighters have been shot while responding to a brush fire in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, according to Northern Lakes Fire Protection Chief Pat Riley, CNN affiliate KHQ reported.

Kootenai County Emergency Management has told people in the area to shelter in place and asked others to avoid the area.

Law enforcement agencies from multiple jurisdictions are assisting with the situation, Riley told KHQ. He said fire suppression efforts have been halted.

BREAKING

Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office in Northern Idaho reporting an active shooter incident.

Fire department says multiple firefighters shot and injured while responding to incident in Coeur d’Alene pic.twitter.com/xBmjJSAwYn

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) June 29, 2025

Northern Lakes Fire Protection Chief Pat Riley told KHQ that firefighters have halted their efforts to put out the brush fire as the active shooter has yet to be detained.

Chief Riley stated, “My immediate reaction was completely heartbroken. We trained for this. You never want to see it in your own community.”

This is a developing story…

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