Thai Gov Delays Ban On Cannabis As Anxious Business People Prepare To File Thousands Of Lawsuits
Thailand’s government postponed the consideration of a draft legislation that would ban the recreational use of marijuana. The measure needs more opinions from other parties, which requires more time, Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew, said after Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, when the bill was supposed to be submitted, writes Bloomberg.
“The new Bill will be amended from the existing one to only allow the use of cannabis for health and medicinal purposes,” Srikaew, a physician and politician, told reporters last week when he announced the plan to change the current law. “The use for fun is considered wrong.”
New pressure from the public to reverse the cannabis law came after a recent concert of British rock band Coldplay when attendees complained on social media platforms saying “the entire concert smelled like marijuana.”
Thailand regulated medical marijuana use in 2018 and decriminalized marijuana in June 2022, becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to do so and third in the world after Uruguay and Canada. Since then, pot shops have shot up across the country, due to a lack of regulation.
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