Thailand plans to decriminalize cannabis

[handdrummer]

You can grow and sell it but you can't smoke it. Once again Thai logic comes to the fore.
Where can I buy a couple of plants and an ounce? For medicinal purposes only. I promise I won't get high.

[limbu]

Lotus's in Market Village has a surprising variety, 50 or so marijuana products, mostly dried flavoured leaves selling for THB250 upwards. Find them next to the donut shop at the main entrance.

[handdrummer]

Lotus's in Market Village has a surprising variety, 50 or so marijuana products, mostly dried flavoured leaves selling for THB250 upwards. Find them next to the donut shop at the main entrance.

No THC in those products.

[Spitfire]

Yeah, this one is complicated and begs the phrase "What could go wrong?"
So, it's being decriminalized, but it's not. You can grow it but can't smoke it and if it has a high enough level of THC so that it hits a recreational use level, then your still toast.
I'm looking at it as it's something that can be now done for an agricultural endeavour and then sell it on. However, why would the average Joe grow it at home if they were not going to smoke it? Doesn't make much sense and we have the usual Thai ambiguity.
So many will fall foul of the technical laws on this... what, like if it's over 0.2% THC or whatever, then it's still a class 5 drug. Good luck with anyone getting that right.
Got trouble stamped all over it and it's being reported as some kind of enlightened panacea solution and people can grow as much weed as they like... going to be a joke.

Edit - Couple of typos.

[HHTel]

I have a friend who has half a dozen plants. He has permission and has the relevant doctor's prescription. He suffers from cancer which is getting increasingly severe. He doesn't smoke it but chewing the leaves gives him some relief.

[Spitfire]

I have a friend who has half a dozen plants. He has permission and has the relevant doctor's prescription. He suffers from cancer which is getting increasingly severe. He doesn't smoke it but chewing the leaves gives him some relief.

Well, OK... seems legit. But I think that situation is a world away from what will occur in general. I would surmise this whole thing, that has been pushed by Anutin, it very ill-thought out... and many probably think they now have a green light to grow at home and smoke "purple-haze buds" or "Thai sticks" as they see fit.
Personally, as a foreigner, I wouldn't go near it with a barge-pole... even if I did smoke or want to eat it, which I don't do on either count.

[handdrummer]

The whole thing sounds like a setup.

I wonder where all the weed went that was returned to the people they let out of prison.
My guess is on the market.

Some little old lady, down a dark lane in Bangkok, is selling it by the gram.

Just when I thought this country couldn't get an more F'ked up, it proved me wrong.

[Suua]

This is a screen shot of some dispensaries in Los Angeles.
When I first visited one of the recreational outlets I asked one of the staff how much they sold everyday.
She said in the region of $100,000
That's just one shop! in one part of the country.....I wonder how much is taken everyday across the entire US where is it legal.
Whenever I visit the US I always find the nearest dispensary and it is always very busy.
The money to be made is phenomenal.

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[migrant]

This is a screen shot of some dispensaries in Los Angeles.
When I first visited one of the recreational outlets I asked one of the staff how much they sold everyday.
She said in the region of $100,000
That's just one shop! in one part of the country.....I wonder how much is taken everyday across the entire US where is it legal.
Whenever I visit the US I always find the nearest dispensary and it is always very busy.
The money to be made is phenomenal.
WeedMaps2.jpg

In the US weed is still federally illegal. They can bank but none of the major banks will take their accounts. Amazing with all the cash!

[buksida]

The whole thing sounds like a setup.

My thoughts exactly, it makes Mr Numptin look good, but also makes it open season for the BIB to "enforce the law" and extort fines as they see fit. Nothing really has changed.

[handdrummer]

The whole thing sounds like a setup.

My thoughts exactly, it makes Mr Numptin look good, but also makes it open season for the BIB to "enforce the law" and extort fines as they see fit. Nothing really has changed.

All the changes here are cosmetic. When today's 20 yr. olds are in their 40s or 50s, there may be a societal change and that will depend on whether or not China is in control of the country and what type of change that brings.

[buksida]

Well it looks like some are partaking ...

Smokers spark up openly at Thailand’s delayed but delightful 420 festival
While many were still coming to terms with Thailand’s decriminalization of cannabis, aficionados lit blunts, inhaled massive hits from “weed cannons,” hit bongs, and chugged weed-infused drinks this weekend in celebration.

With cannabis completely legal – restrictions such as a basic age limit remain before parliament – hundreds got high together at the first annual 420 festival in Bangkok to feature open smoking of marijuana.

“At first I saw cops walking around, and by old habit, I hurriedly put my joints away,” said attendee Morakod Chitsombunchai. “Then it hit me, that actually I didn’t have to hide when smoking weed.”

Apitchet Saensaman, 33, said he “thought it would take much, much longer [to decriminalize] buds.”

That sentiment was echoed in the weekend event’s name, Thailand 420: Legalaew!? (“legalized!?”), reflecting the uncertainty that Thailand would make a complete about-face on cannabis policy by suddenly allowing the purchase, sale, and consumption of the drug without consequence, though use of extracts remain regulated and further restrictions will likely be passed by parliament.

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/features/sm ... al-photos/

[PeteC]

The chickens seem to love it.

Farmers feed cannabis to chickens in northern Thailand

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/cannabi ... n-thailand

Chickens at a farm in Lampang, northern Thailand, are apparently in a “good mood” after the antibiotics in their chicken feed were replaced with cannabis. Not only are the chickens showing higher immunity against disease, but they also have a lower bodyfat percentage than usual, making for a delicious Khao Man Gai – or chicken rice – according to one Chiang Mai restaurant, which regularly buys chicken from the farm.

Cannabis was delisted as a Category 5 narcotic on June 9, making the plant available for medical and commercial use in Thailand. Petch Lanna Organic Agriculture Community Enterprise in Chae Hom District, Lampang province, is licensed to grow medical cannabis. The farm said that during processing, a lot of cannabis remnants are left over, so they decided to trial feeding it to their chickens, with support from Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Agriculture.

Since the start of the experiment, the chickens have developed higher immunity against avian bronchitis, which was previously a big problem at the farm. The farm previously tried to fight the disease by injecting the chickens with antibiotics, but it didn’t work nearly as well as cannabis, according to the farmers.

The farm has now completely done away with antibiotics and chemicals, mixing only cannabis into the chicken feed. The chickens are reportedly much less stressed, which is leading them to have less bodyfat, making their meat more delicious.

One Khao Man Gai – or chicken rice – restaurant in Chiang Mai regularly buys chicken from the farm. Since the chickens began eating cannabis, the chicken meat is less greasy and more tender, said the restaurant owner. The shop said that with the improved chicken, they are making 5000 – 8000 baht per day in profit.

The enterprise has been selling chicken meat for 100 baht per kilo and eggs for 6 baht a piece via its website.

The National Farmers Council is supportive of the endeavour, with president Prapat Panyachatrak warning that antibiotics in chicken meat and eggs can be harmful to human health. The cannabis-fed chicken meat is not only safer, but boosts the commercial value of the chicken too, he added.

SOURCE: CH7

Edit: Great name for a small restaurant or pub, "The Stoned Chicken"

[handdrummer]

Now we know how to improve our immune systems and ward off Covid.

NB. None of my pot-smoking friends in the US, have had Covid.

[Suua]

I've smoked pot for 45 years .....alas, I contracted Wu flu.