Opening a cannabis dispensary wasn’t always top of the list of Wassaya Iemvijan’s ambitions. The former lawyer, from the Thai capital Bangkok, first turned to the plant as a form of “alternative care” to cope with stress and settle her mind.
It was at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic that architect Visut Innadda was laid off by his firm along with hundreds of others. He says it was a wake-up call. “People said that being an office employee is a stable job, but that’s not true,” Visut said. “I was…