News Forum - Pattaya beach turns into unregulated booze and kratom market

[Thaiger]

Pattaya Beach, a once serene paradise for tourists and locals, is now teetering on the edge of chaos as unlicenced vendors run rampant. Once discreet, these sellers now brazenly set up stalls along the shoreline, peddling kratom-laced cocktails and alcoholic beverages, ignoring the law with apparent ease. Despite frequent police patrols, vendors openly resume business … …

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[SnapDragon]

Sad!

Good job it's only at night though. Wouldn't want the holidaying families to see bad stuff. Might harm Pattaya's reputation.

[ChrisS]

" questions arise over the effectiveness of current policing efforts."

Not to mention the in your face prostitution and thieving Ladyboys who have plagued Beach Road for decades, pretty sure there are no 'questions' over current policing efforts I think everyone knows full well that the Royal Thai Police apart from the occasional raid have no interest in policing Beach Road whether from laziness of financial or other inducement we can but speculate!