Thailand approves medical marijuana in New Year's 'gift'

[shadowofacloud]

1 hour ago, dickjones2018 said:

" a country which until the 1930s had a tradition of using marijuana to relieve pain and fatigue, "

 

so who or what made them make it illegal ...  USA? with DEA while it was the CIA importing most of the cocaine & heroine into the country to go make war on other countries...

 

There is a fairly good article in The Diplomat, describing the changes to drug policy in TH after the Vietnam war:

 -> https://thediplomat.com/2018/04/thailands-legendary-marijuana/

 

But yes, as was already mentioned above, it was Uncle Sam and their extremely successful war on drugs.

[KhunProletariat]

16 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

"This is a New Year's gift from the National Legislative Assembly

Gee, thanks daddy. I really needed Marijuana to be approved by the NLA first before I know it's safe to use. Now I have no worries about it's side effects at all.. Your the best, Dad. 

**hits the bong**

Edited December 26, 2018 by KhunProletariat

[Shiver]

Bit confused now.  Is this whole product or just non THC extract?

If there's a day where it becomes an optional topping on a pizza menu, then the future suddenly looks bright.

[Nyezhov]

5 minutes ago, Shiver said:

If there's a day where it becomes an optional topping on a pizza menu, then the future suddenly looks bright.

becasue it would make even a Thai Pizza tasty. Finished it for you.

[GalaxyMan]

2 hours ago, neeray said:

The country where I reside mostly (for now), recently legalized recreational weed. But prior to that, I had work related cause to spend a few days and evenings in a town that had several "medical dispensaries". My work was right next door to one of these dispensaries. I was totally amazed at the steady parade of persons, all about age 25 to 30, who traipsed in and out of this facility, seemingly getting their fix for whatever ailed them at such a young age.

When I lived in Holland I was surprised at the range of people in line to buy some hash/weed in coffee shops, everything from the 'obvious' type to business people, professionals, housewives, students. Never saw any 'young' people, but that could have something to do with the law requiring 18 years of age to purchase. After 50 years of trying, I'm still trying to find something negative about weed...

[helloagain]

11 hours ago, quandow said:

What is the Thai word for "glaucoma?"

They say it makes you go blind now it has 5555

[connda]

I'll believe it when I see it.

Allowed for medical use?  In what form.  Not enough information here as of yet to really know what's going on.

[Ruffian Dick]

26 minutes ago, Shiver said:

Bit confused now.  Is this whole product or just non THC extract?

Time will tell, won't it? :)

Either they can get real strict and require commercial extracts (of the "not high" type) or they can simply allow any doctor to prescribe weed and allow dispensaries to open nationwide (along the California model). This would be open for loads of "abuse" since Thais love to skate around the rules.

Forbes says that this includes kratom too, so I'll bet they go for the California model:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarabrittanysomerset/2018/12/25/thailand-legalizes-medical-marijuana-and-kratom/

 

[bendejo]

The glory of medical mj in the US is the taxes.

A certain US state, which now has legal recreational mj, started their medical mj program long ago.  It was originally for only 2 things: glaucoma and dealing with chemotherapy treatments.  They opened it up for more types of treatment, and it eventually reached around 50,000 medical permits.  At $200 per year, that's an impressive pile!  Even more conservative states are considering it.

 

Will Thailand start selling vaporizers for it?

 

 

 

[ChiangMaiThai]

Any idea how long before we see legit operations with hundreds of strains and CBD too with doctors who actually have some idea of what strains are worth trying for your ailment? Am I going to be able to go to Bumrungrad soon and talk to a doctor about marijuana and CBD as a treatment? If so, this will be a game changer for Thailand. For once, becoming the 'hub' of something that actually matters. People will fly in from all over Asia for extended treatment. Best news I've seen in a ThaiVisa news alert in about 10 years too!

[steelepulse]

It would be nice to see a list of what ailments you need to get this legally. Another list that would be nice to have is where to purchase from said legal dispensaries.

 

[ChiangMaiThai]

2 minutes ago, steelepulse said:

It would be nice to see a list of what ailments you need to get this legally. Another list that would be nice to have is where to purchase from said legal dispensaries.

 

Yes, that's what I guess a lot of people are wondering. Is it going to be limited to severe health conditions or will doctor's be able to use their own discretion? And is high level of THC permitted or CBD only? Will be very interesting to see.

[CanuckThai]

50 minutes ago, Faikham said:

If by "money parasites" you mean people who will provide it to society at a cost that rewards their investment and efforts, I'd say we need to get them in!

As with everything in Thailand, the question is: which well positioned/connected family(s) will be given national distribution or licencing rights.  Once that is determined, only the obscene amount of entitled "free" baht (y=fx) will be of any concern.

[ChipButty]

34 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

becasue it would make even a Thai Pizza tasty. Finished it for you.

Shall I make that an Happy Pizza? will be the question now

[ChiangMaiThai]

1 minute ago, CanuckThai said:

As with everything in Thailand, the question is: which well positioned/connected family(s) will be given national distribution or licencing rights.  Once that is determined, only the obscene amount of entitled "free" baht (y=fx) will be of any concern.

Yes you are probably right, but maybe for once something will be done with some sense of equal opportunity in this country.

[ChipButty]

7 minutes ago, ChiangMaiThai said:

Any idea how long before we see legit operations with hundreds of strains and CBD too with doctors who actually have some idea of what strains are worth trying for your ailment? Am I going to be able to go to Bumrungrad soon and talk to a doctor about marijuana and CBD as a treatment? If so, this will be a game changer for Thailand. For once, becoming the 'hub' of something that actually matters. People will fly in from all over Asia for extended treatment. Best news I've seen in a ThaiVisa news alert in about 10 years too!

And get arrested for being stoned on their way out

[Happyfarangguy]

Should be good for medical tourism. 

[AGareth2]

1 hour ago, l4ml4m said:

Where to get it ?

 

hopefully people with a medical symptom can grow their own

[marko kok prong]

3 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Just remember, according to recent news reports here, when the government types obtained some marijuana from the Thai police to use for testing purposes, the results came back with all kinds of pesticide and heavy metals contamination. Obviously, that seized weed came from illegal sources who knows where.

 

Hopefully, they'll clean up their act by the time any official, legal production of the weed begins here. But since they can't even get harmful pesticide residues out of the veggies that are sold in supermarkets here, even the so-called organic types, I wouldn't be too optimistic.

 

Easily avoided if grown under lights with proper ventilation,and a sealed enviroment i know this well as i used to do it back in Aus,no pests can get in,so no need for pesticides,Ant's however are a real problem here in Thailand as i am sure we all know,stopping them will be harder as certain species actually cultivate scale and aphids on plants,however it is a tough plant,and would be able to be grown year round in this climate.

 Must say i am pleasantly surprised at this move,let's hope they go the whole way,the money the govt could make would be a lot as shown in states in USA which have fully legalised it.

[elgenon]

Still wondering if it applies to foreigners.

[PEE TEE]

Good news and when are they going to legalize E cigs not heard anymore about that 

[jmccarty]

The neighboring countries that relish in the prosecution of pot smokers will be fuming over this if their citizens catch wind of this when visiting.

[DJ54]

19 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

Want to eat Taco Bell

Where? Ready. To eat !

[Nanaplaza666]

So if you get a doctors perscription where are you going to get it from ??? 

[RichardColeman]

20 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Guessing this guy must have a whole load of medical issues

[ThaiFelix]

4 hours ago, AGareth2 said:

hopefully people with a medical symptom can grow their own

Very much doubt it because too hard to tax.  However if the govt really wanted to give a gift to the people that would be the sensible thing to do but this is not about helping the people its about making money out of them.

[randy723]

bad idea look what pot has done to this man or what ever IT is

[Winky Wilson]

Cannabis is actually not a drug, it is a powerful adaptagen.  Cannabis is biologically non toxic to humans. The only way to die from using it is choking on the stuff. The war on drugs and pharmaceutical companies have created the mess of brain washing/stereotyping the world that this is evil stuff.  Definately not for minors or alcoholics, still is not fatal though.

[Somnambulist]

6 hours ago, GalaxyMan said:

When I lived in Holland I was surprised at the range of people in line to buy some hash/weed in coffee shops, everything from the 'obvious' type to business people, professionals, housewives, students. Never saw any 'young' people, but that could have something to do with the law requiring 18 years of age to purchase. After 50 years of trying, I'm still trying to find something negative about weed...

I know there are cons to using cannabis but I can't remember what they are.  

[bbbbooboo]

...... yawn..... hundreds of thousands of years ago primitive tribes used to throw a certain type of seed onto hot rocks and sniff the smoke....