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BANGKOK: Thailand wants to ban recreational use of cannabis by the end of this year, the nation’s health minister said, threatening to put thousands of marijuana shops and farms that have sprung up around the country since a decriminalisation drive two years ago out of business.

(Bloomberg) -- Thailand wants to ban recreational use of cannabis by the end of this year, the nation’s health minister said, threatening to put thousands of marijuana shops and farms that have sprung up around the country since a decriminalization drive two years ago out of business. Most Read from BloombergYour 401(k) Will Be Gone Within a DecadeCapital One to Buy Discover for $35 Billion in Year's Biggest Deal Largest Covid Vaccine Study Yet Finds Links to Health ConditionsStocks ...

‘You can’t put the buds in jars and sell them for recreation any more, to use for fun at parties, any more. That will be illegal, and we’ll arrest you,’ Health Minister Cholnan said.

The head of Thailand's Centre of Addiction Studies, says cannabis usage for recreational purposes should be completely prohibited

NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Thai prime minister Srettha Thavisin has vowed to restrict the use of marijuana for medical purposes following the decriminalisation of cannabis a year ago, making the nation a first with thousands of weed shops opening across the country since then. The government will seek to “rectify” its cannabis policy and rampant […]

Thai prime minister Srettha Thavisin has vowed to restrict the use of marijuana for medical purposes following the decriminalisation of cannabis a year ago, making the nation a first with thousands of weed shops opening across the country since then.

There can’t be a middle ground for recreational use, he says. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Thailand's new prime minister pledged to limit medicinal marijuana usage after thousands of pot stores emerged since cannabis legalization a year ago.

Cannabis activists reacted with dismay Friday to lawmakers’ decision to shoot down legislation that would regulate cannabis, saying it was a self-defeating political move. Longtime advocates said opposition lawmakers missed the opportunity to put needed regulations in place by voting down the Cannabis Act on Wednesday. They believe it was…

Weed smokers were exhaling smoky sighs of relief on word that pending regulations, at least in their current form, pose no threat to the new stoner status quo. Several advocates said today that they saw nothing to fear in the forthcoming Cannabis Act’s regulations, which are mostly aimed at production…