Thailand becomes the first Asian country to partially legalize Marijuana | DW News
Thailand becomes the first Asian country to partially legalize Marijuana | DW News
Thailand plans to give away 1 million marijuana seedlings to encourage growers — getting high, however, could still be punished. A legislation allowing the cultivation of cannabis in Thailand came into effect on Thursday. The law, also allowing the use of cannabis in food and drinks, is a first of its kind in Asia. Although Thailand is not following the Uruguayan or Canadian models of legalizing recreational marijuana, it is seeking to boost hemp agriculture and medical tourism.
Grow but don’t smoke
Thailand is strongly promoting growing cannabis and using it for medicinal purposes, but it is still encouraging people not to smoke pot. The government is not allowing the possession or sale of cannabis extracts containing more than 0.2% of its psychoactive ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC. That’s around 20 to 40 times less than modern recreational cannabis designed to influence people’s state of mind would likely contain. In a warning against recreational use, the government said smoking pot in public could be considered nuisance, due to the smell. That’s punishable with up to a 3-month sentence and a fine of 25,000 Thai baht ($780, €728).
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The us/uk/UN will NOT be happy about this in their world government program lol
Congratulations Thailand – a great educational opportunity for many
New Amsterdam
wow congratz from india soon hope my country has to legalize soon
This is just the beginning of a new era sooner or later every country in the world will legalize cannabis before 2100.
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Not my problem ! I am Finnish and we don’t need drugs to enjoy our life in forests .
That’s only for poor western city stalkers to feel GREAT?
Myself and my Thai wife are now looking for another country to retire in.
I love cannabis 🫶🏻🍁💚 ฉันรักกัญญา🫶🏻🍁💚
That lady university should’ve tell the people what harm will it cause , she’s in the spotlight but nothing comes in her mouth
Let’s gooooo
I think this will increase tourism. And the weed smokers will be some of the kindest, most fun, positive human beings who visit Thailand.
smart move from thailAnd a paradise with sex and now mary jane great for tourism and the economy!
Wait..Nepal will be the second.
Make Thailand smile again 🙂
Thailand econnomy is running by tourist. And tourist like to consumption weed. Money above all!
0.2%thc is just a joke. They limit the most medicinal Cannabinoide of the plant. Maybe they just don’t know about the amazing health benefits of decarboxilated high thc cannabis extracts (over 85%) that you have to eat if you are ill, I have seen hundreds of cancer patients just using that oil to cure their cancer. They just don’t have a clue about it.
This will be messy. You will see tuktuks flying like crazy everywhere around. Vehicular accidents will multiply for sure. Wait for it.
Land of smile is coming back
Wellcom to my country.
If the weed in thailand is cheap tourism will skyrocket
Congratulations from Nepal.
We support world wide marijuana legalization.
Congratulations from srilanka 🇱🇰
The Land of more smiles
Best news for years.
Respect to Thailand 🇹🇭
I’ll be visiting soon.
Congrats from Romania and Netherlands!
The Cannabis being sold is not Low Potency. It’s High Grade.
When will Philippines wake up?
สยามเมืองยิ้ม 😁
The weed purchased in the shops is high potency. It is only the derivatives that cannot exceed 0,2% THC. Oil, hash,food products etc. Why the law was formed like that I dont know. But the growing, selling, buying, possesion and use of high THC marijuana is legal. As stated in the video, not legal to smoke in public though.
It’s a plant and should be legal to do whatever you want with it all over the world, governments tell us no but force us to take experimental vaccines… its madness
Legalise Cannabis in the UK.
The next to legalize LGBT marriage. ❤️ Good achievements
I hope soon here in the Philippines🙏 will be legalize too
Dont Panic it is Organic
☮️📌💚💛❤️🇹🇭😊
Ahh yes, Amsterdam is far worse than Bangkok…
Don’t get excited people it’s only for 0.2 THC weed so completely pointless
Indonesia bisa
Haven’t they locked people up for insanely long times for weed not too long ago?
Opening it up like this in Thailand is going to also create much more opportunity for advances in medical MJ, I really think so. If you know Thailand has always been BIG on medical tourism, and on conventional as well as traditional medicines, so I foresee Thailand creating a very unique, profitable, AND beneficial niche for alternative approaches to mental and physical health. Congratulations Thailand, what a ballsy, and correct, move!
unwanted drug tourism? what do you think why they legalized it in such a rush? to bring back money in to a dying economy maybe?
f a tourist got banned for life over possession of a rolled joint from 2018 , do you think the Thailand Government would reduce banned for life to a 5 year ban? In the Thailand detention center, prior to deportation, several Farang’s received a 5 year ban for "overstay" and "possession" too! Still do not understand whey the Phuket court banned a Tourist for Life over possession of a rolled hemp cigarette given to the tourist. Have fun with the "Green" for medical PTSD applications!
Don’t be happy though, anything higher than 0.2% thc is considered illegal.
I hope Philippine will legalized this .
For uneducated society this is a suicidal
Whits agenda there looking, weed from Monsanto!?
Repto King need money, patet yaba!!
☝️☝️he sells weed, LSD, bars, shrooms, all trippy stuffs, very reliable, you can order from him
Make weed not war
Welcome to my home, I’ve just start to grow them in my backyard.