Secret bid to seize Thai cannabis market

[snoop1130]

Secret bid to seize Thai cannabis market

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

 

BANGKOK — The fight over who will profit from medical cannabis – not the patients but the patents – is underway with lawmakers slamming bureaucrats for putting corporate interests over public benefit.

 

Following wide speculation that foreign pharma is seeking to dominate the potential market before it even exists, the commerce minister yesterday confirmed that at least 31 patent applications for medical marijuana have been filed to the Intellectual Property Department by foreign multinationals.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2018/11/21/patents-reveal-foreign-pharmas-secret-bid-to-seize-thai-cannabis-market/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-11-21

[Phuketshrew]

I'm gobsmacked! Did anyone really expect anything different?

[Justgrazing]

Interesting analogy that one .. I've heard of folk getting bombed out on H but never known of someone toking on a nuclear warhead .. 

[Justgrazing]

Jesus all the clacking about patent this , copyright that .. Just give the people the seeds to get their own magic garden going like its been growing since whenever in the wild then they can do whatever they want with it cook , brew , toke whatever .. Jeez some jest aint happy lest they can find something to whinge about .. 

[from the home of CC]

yea, they all sound like they're indulging in the forbidden

[holy cow cm]

Couldn’t you just see the P brothers with a bong and joint in hand if they had cancer? They probably would be the first to partake behind the scenes out of Public eye. 

[janclaes47]

3 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Couldn’t you just see the P brothers with a bong and joint in hand if they had cancer? They probably would be the first to partake behind the scenes out of Public eye. 

Cannabis cures cancer now?

[chickenslegs]

I think that there will be something similar to the Thai Tobacco Monopoly set up to control the production and sale of medicinal cannabis in Thailand.

 

And that may be the best way to do things, at least until the total legalisation of the drug.

[g2x3k]

34 minutes ago, janclaes47 said:

Cannabis cures cancer now?

https://youtu.be/5RtRil2ND-E

[yellowboat]

Big pharm or junta?  I'd go with pharma. 

[holy cow cm]

38 minutes ago, janclaes47 said:

Cannabis cures cancer now?

Maybe in Thailand as almost everything has benefits in their labels. 

[Bluespunk]

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The fight over who will profit from medical cannabis – not the patients but the patents

Why would the patients make a profit from their medical treatments?

 

Apart from selling it on, that is...

Edited November 21, 2018 by Bluespunk

[thaiguzzi]

1 hour ago, janclaes47 said:

Cannabis cures cancer now?

Cures everything...........????

[fondue zoo]

Does anyone know what percentage of change is required to not be in breach of patents?

Add some coconut?

[Lupatria]

13 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

Couldn’t you just see the P brothers with a bong and joint in hand if they had cancer? They probably would be the first to partake behind the scenes out of Public eye. 

I think there are reasons to believe that's what they do for a long time already as a  preventive measure.

[yougivemebaby]

Lots and lots and lots of money to be made here. No one should be surprised there will be massive fighting over these types of (in) formalities.  

[Mickmouse1]

Few Americans are are in are in the region making deals since early this year.I met one who has signed agreement with Cambodia and near concluding a thai deal. Production is to be exported though.

[digger70]

14 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Jesus all the clacking about patent this , copyright that .. Just give the people the seeds to get their own magic garden going like its been growing since whenever in the wild then they can do whatever they want with it cook , brew , toke whatever .. Jeez some jest aint happy lest they can find something to whinge about .. 

And make money from it ,,, totally greed,,,,

[Proboscis]

When you think about it, it was a criminal cartel supplying the market up until now. Perhaps what comes next will be better? 

[HAKAPALITA]

Just grow it in the garden if you need it, or is that to easy.I ve found a Mint culture after trial n error im addicted to on Lamb Chops.[emoji1351]‍[emoji505]


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[hotchilli]

I'm bored already.... Thailand will monopolise it somehow so they get all the rewards, no way they will let this new industry slip into foreign hands .

[moe666]

You cannot blame these companies, they have spent time and energy seperating the different componets from the plant and getting different results. My daughter has RA and with that is a lot of pain originally she was on opioids which whould give her about 4 hours sleep at night now she has two different cannabis extracts a daytime which she takes it helps the pain but she doesn't get hi from it. There is also the night time which she takes and that knocks her out for a good nights sleep.

It isn't about grabbing a couple of joints and having a hit at this stage of the game

[nursebob]

try to keep big pharma out of this, they got this banned in the first place because there was no profit in it, now they want in because there is profit to be made.

[DrTuner]

And the beneficial owners of the said foreign company are from?

 

EDIT: Huh, Japanese and British companies were mentioned in the article. That's a bit of a surprise. Can't blame them for trying.

Edited November 22, 2018 by DrTuner
Read the thang

[Krataiboy]

Secret bid to seize Thai cannabis market

 

Hardly, when everybody has already known about it for days. Or don't Khaosod English journalists read the newspapers?

[HerbalEd]

On 11/21/2018 at 8:00 PM, janclaes47 said:

Cannabis cures cancer now?

Please do try to keep up.