It’s like a dream come true for an ageing generation of pot smokers who recall the kick the legendary Thai Stick variety delivered.
| Thailand made it legal to cultivate and possess marijuana as of Thursday, which is like a dream come true for an ageing generation of pot smokers who recall the kick the legendary Thai Stick variety delivered.
“I can say it out loud, that I am a cannabis smoker. I don’t need to hide like in the past when it was branded as an illegal drug,” said 24-year-old Rittipong Bachkul, the day’s first customer. And extracted content, such as oil, remains illegal if it contains more than 0.2 per cent of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the chemical that makes people high.
“We should know how to use cannabis,” Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, the country’s biggest marijuana booster, said recently. “If we have the right awareness, cannabis is like gold, something valuable, and should be promoted.” “From our perspective, a major positive outcome of the legal changes is that at least 4000 people imprisoned for offences relating to cannabis will be released,” Gloria Lai, Asia regional director of the International Drug Policy Consortium, said in an email interview.
“We have seen what happened with the alcohol business in Thailand. Only large-scale producers are allowed to monopolise the market,” said Taopiphop Limjittrakorn, an legislator from the opposition Move Forward party.
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