Biggest cheerleader of business opportunity is Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. FMTNews Thailand GanjaFever
The govt this week opened its first medical marijuana clinic offering free cannabis oil and care to patients.
Though Thailand last year became the first southeast Asian nation to allow medical marijuana, the plant has not been decriminalised and tough penalties remain. Possession and trafficking could lead to long prison terms and big fines. In the first day, hundreds of patients visited the clinic, and more than 3,700 have shown interest through the clinic’s mobile application, according to a statement.
Its plan to prepare one million bottles of cannabis oil by February 2020 “shows ambition” on the part of the Thai government, the company added. The Ministry of Public Health, which Anutin also heads, is looking to speed up legal changes to liberalise the medical marijuana industry, including a move to allow household cultivation of as many as six cannabis plants.Legalising recreational use of marijuana is “the next step”, Anutin had said at an event in Bangkok in November. Yet the move is unlikely to happen in the four-year term of the current government, he said, citing the need for more research and study.
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