The trend for Thailand’s daily new Covid infections is definitely heading down, for now. The current surge hit its peak on April 1 with 28,029 new infections but has been on a downward trajectory ever since. There were 18,799 new coronavirus infections around Thailand, only 11 among prison inmates, a huge drop since peaks over […]
Since then, the commissioner of the Provincial Police Region 4 told officers in the region to be more lenient with those who grow cannabis for medicinal purposes, like the grandma. A police spokesperson says that Thais caught growing the plant should be given a warning, rather than getting arrested. Pete is a writer for The […]
To educate the public about Thailand’s laws on cannabis and the medical uses of the once criminalised plant, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is going on tour with his first stop in the northeastern province Surin. Anutin has been a vocal advocate for medical marijuana and cultivating the plant for research and health purposes. At […]
There’s a limit on the plant’s psychoactive component, known as THC, so you won’t get stoned when you order a cannabis-infused tea or dish topped with a pot leaf. So when you see cannabis products and dishes for sale in Thailand, they have higher levels of the plant’s non-psychoactive component cannabidiol, or CBD, which is […]
The Thai Food and Drug Administration mentioned the idea of a “Cannabis Sandbox” for those entering Thailand from overseas, allowing travellers to roam freely in approved districts or provinces without undergoing a strict quarantine. The secretary-general of the FDA, Paisarn Dunkum, told Thai media that they are working on the Cannabis Act which is expected […]
Thailand’s health minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, has confirmed that the Narcotics Control Board has approved the removal of cannabis from the Category 5 list of controlled drugs. According to the AP report, the news has left Thai police and lawyers uncertain as to whether possession of the drug is still an arrestable offence. In 2020, the […]