How Thailand went from war on drugs to cannabis curries – BBC News
How Thailand went from war on drugs to cannabis curries – BBC News
Thailand now has one of the world’s most liberal marijuana regimes.
The country legalised cultivating and consuming cannabis in June, reversing a hard-line approach of long prison sentences or even the death penalty for drug offences.
The regime has sparked off a boom in weed-related businesses hoping to cash in on a new customer base.
The BBC’s South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head reports on what’s behind the dramatic change.
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Beautiful. Do something people don’t have to be locked up. Or poor when u have the earth to live on. Why so late..
That looks chronic!
Uk need to follow suite.
Tegridy
finally some common sense in the world. the war on drugs actually created more criminals than if it wasn’t. and also made criminals millionaires.
The thing is, there are some local powerful political gangs that control products. After the law legally approve the cannabis just one day. There are a lot of cannabis trees put to sell beside the road and market. It doesn’t make any senses that you can grow the seed to the growth tree just only 1 day. Most of them are from the Chitchob family’s farm. Do you think that this law was written to help in medical aspect or give benefits to specific groups of people to make their wealthier.
“I am happy, really happy” – clearly a regular user already I see 🤣
Well we’ll what government will do for money
Wow every country is ahead of the UK in this respect! The UK is a pathetic place to live right now 👍
Nice, I’ve wanted to visit Thailand👍
Time to stop by in my yacht
God bless this doctor he saved is People !
Singapore is losing out
Also Buriram Thailand is redshirt party controlled who are trying to monopolize the Cannabis business for themself, by controlling the farmer co-operatives, and douse out any other co-operatives in Thailand (Monopolism) and BBC as usual is accepting paid placements as news to promote the monopolists. BBC; you do not understand what goes on backstage in Thailand’s political chessboard.
It’s all about money. Nothing about morals.
Cannabis is a much better substance for recreational use than alcohol.
Alcohol makes people turn a mess of a fool.
Weed just makes you silly, sleepy, and hungry for a short while.
People who are against weed are just clueless.
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Wow this is very surprising after how harsh they were previously.
It’s a very clever business decision though – I reckon they will make a hell of a lot of money from this.
I guess it’s just about money rather than health but fair play, other people/countries make money out of things that are far worse for health or the environment. Go Thailand 🇹🇭
Take Note police, the war on drugs is over; THAT PLANT WON!!!!
Regime lol gtfo
Recreational, medicinal, therapeutic… 🙄THEY’RE ALL THE SAME
This is unreal I guess there following the foot steps of the queen, biggest cannabis dealer on the planet,ok now the worlds going backwards great
Finally people are learning. Christ, it took for ever
Lol 0.2% thc that’s worse than mexican brick weed🤣
As someone with Multiple Sclerosis who uses Cannabis daily to cope with my symptoms this is awesome. I am Canadian and grateful for it being legal here. Thailand making it legal makes me more inclined to travel there as I know I can still access my medicine and enjoy my self instead of being in pain. Great job Thailand.
If they were giving people such harsh punishments just a little while ago, and now a sudden change – I have trouble trusting the sincerity and stability of anything there.
I love Thailand so much 🇹🇭😁🙏
completely misses the point of addiction = more crime
Why is the UK so far behind
The penalties were never so harsh as the west has stated. Before legalisation, a small amount of cannabis would be a 50$ fine first time offender. Punishments in Thailand are less than UK and USA and definitely the harshest, is Singapore. It is not legalized for medical purposes, it is legal for entertainment too so get your facts right British Propaganda Broadcasting Company. Thailand is legal for Recreational Use you berks.
Students locked their classroom to smoke weed. When a teacher tried to stop these students, they became aggressive and try to hit the teacher. I’m not sure if this is fakenews or not but I’m pretty sure that weed doesn’t make people aggressive.
Imagine the government is just doing this for now and them bam
Hope it don’t go wrong if they decide to backtrack a lot of people are gonna be arrested
my gawd this presenter needs a spliff is she always liek a moody robot??
basic rights
CANNABIS HEALS WHEN YOU EAT IT, GOOD JOB THAILAND!!!!
I may immigrate to Thailand 🇬🇧🇹🇭
Sitting here stoned in Australia wishing this would happen here. Had many brilliant nights in Amsterdam, this would be totally amazing. Smoked once on koh phangan beach at full moon, pure nerve racking – would nice to go back and chill on the beach smoking a few J’s
Well, Thailand basically adult disneyland so throwing some weeds or magic mushroom just add cherry on cake.. 🤣🤣
big win 💯 wake up India 🇮🇳 . Legalise it
This is what Prof Wajakoya is promissing Kenyans should he be elected as President 😂
They only do it for money. Fuck every country on this earth except the ones who don’t exist.
🇬🇧 Produce Cannabis for other countries .
And still we convict users in our courts for possession 😢
i never seen misplaced eyes like these before the right eye is way up
This woman says im happy im really happy yes cause you high as a kite you idiot
They think it will make them a ton of money but the prices will drop to pennies a gram. You can already buy ounces of high grade for 40$ in some US legal states.
Wow…….. unprecedented in Asia. Mostly I think of the Thais as face-saving hypocrites, but well done.
Catch up Australia
This is wonderful, I’m so happy for them.