thailand allows from this Thursday to consume and cultivate therapeutic cannabis low psychotropic effectthat is, the one who has less than 0.2 percent of tetrahydrocannabinol. The authorities insist that the measure is limited to medical use and that recreational use continues to be prohibited.
Some psychiatrists explain that marijuana use with a high THC content influences brain development and can cause psychotic breaks y memory leaks.
The legal change was approved in February: since then, the marihuana and the hemp are not considered narcotic substances in the Asian country.
Priority use in materials and food
The partial decriminalization of cannabis has promoted in the country the creation and development of numerous products that include marijuana leaves, without the psychoactive principle of the drug: THC.
Restaurants, ice cream parlors and cafeterias are part of the businesses that have jumped on the legal marijuana bandwagon, although large corporations are the ones that have the advantage to obtain the necessary permits for large-scale production.
The research entity Prohibition Partners has explained that the cannabis industry hopes to reach the 661 million dollars (616 million euros) in 2024 in thailand.
According to their own data, some 86 million people per year consume marijuana in Asiaespecially medical cannabis.
Recreational use is still prohibited
Consumption is allowed when it is for therapeutic purposes, which makes thailand in it first country of Southeast Asia that partially decriminalizes this drug. The authorities have insisted that playful use is still prohibited.
Starting this Thursday, anyone who registers at the offices of the Ministry of Healthyou can grow up to six floors of marijuana in your home. In Spain: cultivation, purchase, consumption and possession are illegal.
Those people who grow marijuana with more than 0.2 percent THCstill face, up to 5 years jail for possession and up to 15 years in prison if charged with sale.
The authorities have also wanted to remind consumers that don’t smoke in publicsince if it is considered that they cause public nuisancethey risk being punished with up to three months in prison y fines of 25,000 bats (725 dollars or 675 euros).
progressive decriminalization
in december of 2018the country of Southeast Asia passed a law to legalize the use and research of therapeutic marijuana, although its implementation through specific regulations has been slow to develop in recent years.
In 2019began to supply medical marijuana in hospitals, to alleviate the pain of some patients. In 2021the authorities approved its use as additive in food and beverages.
The Minister of Health, Anutin Charnvirakulsigned on February 8, 2022 the decriminalization of marijuana in low psychotropic effectafter the recommendation of the Food and Drug Administration.
This Thursday, 120 days later, the measure comes into force and promises to release more than 3,000 people who are serving prison sentences for crimes related to this drug, as published by the Department of Corrections in their social networks.