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Thailand to legislate medical marijuana, signals no re-criminalising

Thailand will work towards legislating marijuana for medical use, a deputy prime minister said Tuesday, signalling a U-turn on plans to re-criminalise the plant and another change in the government's hazy position on cannabis. Thailand in 2022 became one of…

Cannabis advocates in Thailand protest a proposal to ban again its general use

BANGKOK (AP) — Two years after marijuana was decriminalized in Thailand, nearly a hundred of its advocates marched to the prime minister’s office Monday to protest a possible ban on general use. A health ministry drug control committee approved Friday…

Marijuana was supposed to help Thailand. Why is the country planning to ban it again?

Two years ago, soon after Thailand became the first Asian nation to decriminalize cannabis, Sarunyu Toprasert and three friends joined a rush of pot entrepreneurs and launched the Channel Weed Store. They opened their third location in early May, pouring…

Thailand Prime Minister Seeks to Criminalize Weed in Reversal

Thailand’s prime minister, Srettha Thavisin, said on Wednesday that he wanted cannabis to be re-listed as a narcotic by the end of the year, a reversal two years after the country became one of the first in Asia to decriminalize marijuana. Mr.…

Thailand to ban recreational cannabis use by year-end, health minister says

February 29, 2024
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Thailand will ban recreational use of marijuana by the end of this year but continue to allow its use for medical purposes, the health minister told Reuters in an interview. After Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia to…

Two years after legalising it, Thailand set to ban recreational cannabis use

February 6, 2024
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Just two years after it decriminalised its consumption, the government in Thailand has decided to move a bill urgently in the parliament banning the use of recreational cannabis, the country’s health ministry announced on Tuesday. In June 2022, Thailand, under…

Thailand moves to ban recreational cannabis use, 18 months after historic decriminalization

January 10, 2024
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Thailand’s new government is moving ahead to pass new legisalation banning cannabis for recreational use in a major reversal 18 months after the country became the first in Asia to decriminalize the plant. The relaxed laws saw a lucrative cannabis industry catering…

Kanha: Still Bullish on Thailand

December 5, 2023
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It only took a year for Thailand’s cannabis economy, if you will, to create so much concern in the easygoing nation of 70 million that a newly elected government in September announced plans to “rectify” its predecessor’s nascent cannabis policy,…

A weed hangover? Why Thailand’s having second thoughts about decriminalizing cannabis

Opening a cannabis dispensary wasn’t always top of the list of Wassaya Iemvijan’s ambitions. The former lawyer, from the Thai capital Bangkok, first turned to the plant as a form of “alternative care” to cope with stress and settle her…

Thailand to Restrict Cannabis Use, New Prime Minister Says, After Decriminalization Last Year

September 21, 2023
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Thailand’s new prime minister vowed to restrict the use of marijuana for medical purposes after thousands of weed shops opened across the country since the nation became the first in Asia to decriminalize cannabis a year ago. The government will…

Thailand’s Weed Industry Is Poised to Grow Fast

The country’s legal marijuana business — a rarity in Asia — is struggling with oversupply, illegal imports and regulatory ambiguity. Investors are piling in anyway. In Bangkok these days, it’s hard not to notice the weed dispensaries catering to tourists…

Thailand’s cannabis draw: Asian tourists are eager to sample a drug that is strictly banned in their home countries – ‘I wanted to try it’

A Japanese tourist reaches into a baggie of cannabis he has just bought in a central Bangkok weed shop, pulling out a gram of buds to chop down in a small black grinder, before rolling them neatly into a joint.…

Thailand’s cannabis lovers face comedown amid legalisation U-turn

Southeast Asian country’s booming cannabis industry is under a cloud as politicians reconsider decriminalisation. Bangkok, Thailand – On Thailand’s Ganja TV, cannabis enthusiasts have followed the drug’s swift journey from banned narcotic, to legal plant for medicinal use, to recreational…

Thai cannabis sector spooked as election winner mulls reversing legalisation

A proposal by Thailand's election-winning Move Forward party to reclassify cannabis as a narcotic a year after it was made legal is sowing panic in an industry that is projected to be worth up to $1.2 billion over the next…

Thailand’s cannabis sellers say US growers are eating their lunch

Nearly a year after Thailand decriminalised cannabis amid promises of an economic bonanza, Thai growers and sellers say they are being undercut by illegal imports from the United States that sell for a fraction of the price of homegrown buds.…