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BANGKOK — Just two years after Thailand became the first Southeast Asian country to decriminalise cannabis in 2022, it now plans to ban recreational use of the drug, creating uncertainty for the public, tourists, and a burgeoning industry.
BANGKOK — Thailand will ban the recreational use of marijuana by the end of 2024, but continue allowing its use for medical purposes, the health minister told Reuters in an interview.
Germany on Friday joined the small group of countries and jurisdictions that have legalised cannabis when the Bundestag passed a law allowing individuals and voluntary associations to grow and hold limited quantities of the drug.
The Southeast Asian nation will seek to get a new cannabis bill – which will explicitly outlaw recreational use of cannabis – approved by lawmakers in the lower house by the end of October, before parliament goes into recess, Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew said in an interview in Bangkok. That will follow a review by the cabinet next month, he said.
Thailand’s cannabis industry is lawyering up as the cabinet weighs a bill to roll back legal weed, which industry insiders say is propelled by political calculation rather than sound public health policy.
Bangkok, Thailand CNN —