Cannabis: Thailand Wants to Ban Recreational Marijuana
Cannabis: Thailand Wants to Ban Recreational Marijuana
The days of legal recreational cannabis use in Thailand may soon be coming to end, barely two years after it became the first South East Asian country to decriminalize the drug. The Thai Cabinet will review a draft law this month with an aim to ban recreational use by the end of the year, impacting thousands of businesses. Bloomberg’s Paul Allen reports.
@junkyarddog7003
3 weeks ago
In love with Thailand and their food but they need to leave the tree alone.🤦🏾♂
what ?
Just a small reminder that vapes are totally illegal in thailand and owning a vape juice could get you in prison while tobacco is still very legal.
Thailand is a hard pass for me. I’m sure there are nice things but too much dirtbag tourism for my tastes.
fools.
I was planning to go in a year or two well now I’m never going 😂
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT 😅😅😅 THEY GIVE UT TO THE PEOPLE AND THEN TAKE IT AWAY 😂😂😂😮😮😮😢😢😢
Indian weed🍁🍁🍁
instead of adapting the law and creating a few new clear regulations, they just press the shut down button – as a result, ppl loose their income, million-dollar industry is canceled and investors are gone. how disappointing is that?
Social harm? Truly Pathetic.
These guys don’t mind their children becoming alcoholics haha
thailand ist fucking corrupt
Good..they where charging to high a price per g.
The problem here isnt them banning the weed. Its the fact that they made it legal. Introducing weed as a recreational thing only to make it illegal so. People will still use and it will just become an underground market
Should i cancel my trip then?😅
You Drink Booze get a Liver disease, Smoke Ciggerttes until you die of lung cancer, but you cant smoke Marijuana how stupid? I was just about to go, But Thailand lost my Money and my Buisness, Im staying in the USA, Very stupid their Loss ..
Man, i was gonna travel to visit
As usual, Thailand makes most there money with prison and hookers
So the criminals can keep making millions🙄🤔😂🤣🤣🤣
Very stupid Thailand
Legal recreational use is probably hurting the alcohol and tobacco market. 😂😂😂
Big mistake..
legal or not it was always available in almost every reggae bar….
They should just tightly regulate it if it bothers them so much. It would be foolish to recrimialize sale at this point. Give it a 30% sin tax even to justify it’s defacto legalization and milk those foreigners.
ALCOHOL IS 10X WORSE. HYPOCRITES.
Marijuana is bad, but alcohol and cigarettes are good?????
Whatttt???
And billions will be extorted by the police from the tourists and expats.
🕊️ ✌️ ☮️
Who is spreading this bullshit around here?????? To my knowledge no decision about anything has been made 👎👎👎
Noooo! 😭
THE TREE OF TRUTH ?
THE TREE OF LIFE ?
there are no benefits. sort you diet out. stop medicating with crap
How dare they make the plant illegal? People are so ignorant. 😅
coming from years of experience, Thailand needs to understand people will get Cannabis regardless of if it’s legal or not that’s why the black market exists. Teenagers are better off smoking Cannabis than drinking alcohol & it’s also a lot safer, teenagers are vulnerable under the influence of Alcohol.
There are public health reasons for proposing a ban on recreational marijuana use, but such a measure could lead to unintended consequences. For example, medical or authorized patients might leak their products to tourists, potentially increasing illegal activity and creating dangers associated with drug trafficking. Additionally, both tourists and residents, when denied legal access, might resort to obtaining unregulated and potentially more potent products. This could lead to increased interactions with potentially dangerous individuals on the street and create tensions between police and tourists. Therefore, a more nuanced approach may be necessary before implementing a full ban. Perhaps a partial ban could be considered as an initial step. Banning recreational marijuana use altogether could create as many problems as when it was fully banned worldwide, and this does not sound good like a good idea at all, and i’m not saying that marijuana is an entirely harmless drug without it’s risks, although cigarettes are plain simply harmful and do not serve purpose, red wine and some few selection of wines with small amounts of alcohol is tolerated by the body and can be consumed in moderation, hard liquors, i would recommend against, as much you wouldn’t like a too high potency product for the first time, since it’s unpredictable effects and health effects may not be necessarily determined by dosing and any amount of dosing could cause a person to feel effects that are too intense for the first timer.
i’m a grower and seller by my self , and i’m gonna lose job again so sad to greedy and studpid gov
A lot more social harm with cigarettes and alcohol.😂
Don’t do it! Imagine all the jobs it creates for Thai people:
Good, i support thailand. It needs quality tourists not junkies
Cannabis should be absolutely just as legal and easy to obtain anywhere as alcohol currently is. In every single state. No exceptions. It’s so easy: As legal and easy to obtain/use as alcohol currently is. Why hold relatively benign, often healing cannabis to any sort of irrational, stricter double standard than perfectly legal alcohol?….
But drinking is fine lol
THE TREE OF CORRUPT ?
They are stupid as fuc* if they make it illegal again 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
hmmm, what about parents being concerned about alcohol? Crickets there huh?
Good on Thailand 🎉 finally a country understanding the shit effects of this skunk shit stinking drug. Hopefully all other countries follow, enough is enough
let the people smoke! the whole cannabis industry is a joke for billionairs only..
"7,000 dispensaries" lol Good luck with that! 😄 For comparison, California since 2016 has 3,659 dispensaries, while the USA has about 15,000! (Source: flowhub)
The decriminalizing of cannabis had a democratizing effect on Thailand. It was free speech and expression.
"…but not at the expense of public health."
What evidence do you have to suggest Recreational Marijuana use is worse for you then Alcohol and Cigarettes!? In fact everything shows the opposite.
Sure its not great for your lungs to smoke anything. But show me a report of anyone dying from Marijuana use.
Or anyone with Lung Cancer from Marijuana use only. I will wait…
I just came back from bkk, most of those businesses are barely surviving !
Banning weed means nothing! As simple as that
If they close stores you can buy it online with free delivery