Just saw some videos from coffeeshops in Phuket
Last 10 years everything was already opening up and every reaggae bar in Thailand sold (bad) weed and space cake. You paid a lot for shit quality. Where i stayed no one got arrested while even smoking in front of police since 5 years ago. I wouldn''t do that as tourist, you never knew. And if you drove around the island there where places in the jungle with a smell reaching the roads, so everyone must have known where they grew it. But not everywhere, you could smoke on 1 beach, but being arrested smoking on the next beach. They didn't want smokers on family beach, but didn't mind on hippy beaches. Friends always bought per kilo to split it with long stayers.
And also XTC was everywhere. But 1200 bath a pill, of unknown quality i never took.
In Pattaya walking street near the Mc Donalds was an alley you could find it. Already in the beginning of walking street i saw people working together and signaling when it was okay to go there. Never heard they fooled someone there, but was always little scary.
Wondering what Cambodia will do. There it was more open 10 years ago than the last time i was there. Even the best Happy Pizzas where closed by the governent. In Cambodia weed for smoking is forbidden. But the tradition of eating weed-Pizza's was legal. So you just asked the pizzeria the ingredients to make a pizza at home. But suddenly government started to close some.