Thailand: One day your handing out life sentences the next day your handing out drugs?

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The Thai government will distribute one million free cannabis plants to households across the nation in June to mark a new rule allowing people to grow cannabis at home, its health minister has said.

Thailand to give away one million free cannabis plants to households, minister says

Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced the move in a Facebook post on May 8 in which he expressed his intention for cannabis plants to be grown like “household crops.”

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The new rule, which comes into force on June 9, will allow people to grow cannabis plants at home after notifying their local government, but the plants will have to be of medical grade and used exclusively for medicinal purposes.

Additionally, the cannabis cannot be used for commercial purposes without further licenses.

The move is the latest step in Thailand’s plan to promote cannabis as a cash crop. About a third of its labor force works in agriculture, according to the World Bank.

In a region notorious for harsh penalties towards illegal drugs, Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia in 2018 to legalize cannabis for medical research and use.

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The kingdom has also loosened local laws around cannabis. Thai drinks and cosmetics companies last year rushed to launch products with hemp and CBD, a compound that does not give users a high, after their use was approved for consumer goods.

In a further Facebook post on May 10, Anutin noted that Thai companies registered to do so could sell cannabis products that contained less than 0.2 tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the part of the plant responsible for getting people high.

This will enable people and the government to generate more than 10 billion baht per year in revenue from marijuana and hemp,” Anutin wrote.

Kitty Chopaka, a Bangkok-based cannabis entrepreneur, told CNN the law was meant to pave the way for people to use the plant in medicinal teas or soups.

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It will still be considered criminal if you don’t have a legal prescription and you have to be a patient of some form of ailment for this to work. Only then will you be able to grow cannabis at home and use it however you like.

She added that, even though recreational use of the drug remained illegal, “smoking weed will happen, and there’s no way the [government] can stop that.” [CNN]

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5 Comments

  1. remember in Thailand 6 teenager are in life in prison Thailand worst prison. Also there was a movie made based on their lives because they wanted brought hashish to USA in 1981 range. They were deceived by a man who met them in fast foods in NYC and told them free vacation with pay 2 weeks but you have to bring Hashish back to USA/NYC! Please obey the laws of any nations you visit?
    Also an American was sentenced to 2 years in prison for bad review for the hotel he stayed. Please
    know today if you arrest in any country USA embassy can do nothing us due world issues we all aware.

  2. I thought prostitution was their main game? Now, they are doing what America does as far as marijuana. Wonder when their kids start smoking what they will say?

  3. They saw the future investments aka dollar signs….. Cheaper to produce and sell globally, than to incarcerate.

      • We are getting close to election time, so all the politicians are acting on their best behaviors and trying to bribe the public to vote for them. Same old story, could be better and worse.

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