FDA expects legal amendment allowing hemp cultivation to be ready by March 2020

By THE NATION

 

 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning to file an appeal seeking amendment of the Narcotics Act that currently prevents the production, import, export, sale and possession of hemp.

 

Dr Phaisan Dankhum, the FDA secretary-general, said on Friday (November 1) that they are currently in the process of public hearing from stakeholders, related agencies and interested people via the websites: www.fda.moph.go.th and www.lawamendment.go.th.

 

The hearing started on October 21 and will conclude next Tuesday (November 5), after which opinions and comments will be processed and analysed to draft the amendment, which will later be presented to the Ministry of Public Health, he said.

 

Phaisan said the amendment aims to promote hemp as an economic crop that could be grown by Thai citizens, government agencies and juristic persons with two-third Thai owners. “However, the growers will have to register with the FDA first, as well as provide information on the purpose of growing, species, location, and distribution channels,” he said.

 

The secretary-general also added that the FDA aims to issue licences to allow the growing of hemp to be used as traditional textile material at a maximum of 1 rai per household, but only for specific domestic species while the applicants must be certified as manufacturers of hemp textile products.

 

“The FDA will also add a transitory provision that for the first five years this licence will be granted only to Thai citizens growing hemp in the Kingdom and prohibit the import of hemp from foreign countries except the seeds,” he said.

 

“The FDA will finish drafting the amendment this month, and expects the new law to be ready around March 2020,” Phaisan added.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30377976

 

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good, I want to buy reusable shopping bags made from hemp - last forever..

Why does it not surprise me that Thailand is dragging it's feet again, denying thousands of people pain relief that could be obtained if they legalized it before next March and then will it really happen?

There is an oil shop in Chiang Mai, CBD, and the other. Also has hemp bags, etc. 

1 hour ago, Colabamumbai said:

There is an oil shop in Chiang Mai, CBD, and the other. Also has hemp bags, etc. 

PM me the address is you could, my wife is in desperate need of some.

 

18 hours ago, ThaiPauly said:

Why does it not surprise me that Thailand is dragging it's feet again, denying thousands of people pain relief that could be obtained if they legalized it before next March and then will it really happen?

Not only for medical use but also a a building material,almost zero co2.

Many uses for the cannabis plant,hempcrete is a very good product also can be used as insolation,roap,clothes and other things.Grows faster and uses less water them trees.

Great for paper making!!

9 hours ago, Colabamumbai said:

There is an oil shop in Chiang Mai, CBD, and the other. Also has hemp bags, etc. 

 

Can I know the name please ? I would like hemp bags.

 

 

Species

a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. The species is the principal natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a Latin binomial,

 

Cannabis (/ˈkænəbɪs/)^[2] is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae. The number of species within the genus is disputed. Three species may be recognized: Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis; C. ruderalis may be included within C. sativa; all three may be treated as subspecies of a single species, C. sativa;^[1][3][4][5] or C. sativa may be accepted as a single undivided species.^[6]

 

On 11/1/2019 at 3:16 PM, webfact said:

The secretary-general also added that the FDA aims to issue licences to allow the growing of hemp to be used as traditional textile material at a maximum of 1 rai per household, but only for specific domestic species while the applicants must be certified as manufacturers of hemp textile products.

It's going to be a bit tricky trying to word this legislation relying on the word "species".I can't wait to see what they come up with!

On 11/1/2019 at 3:16 PM, webfact said:

“The FDA will also add a transitory provision that for the first five years this licence will be granted only to Thai citizens growing hemp in the Kingdom and prohibit the import of hemp from foreign countries except the seeds,” he said.

Allowing the importation of seeds is good news!I might import a couple of tons and rent a crop duster and do so flying around and see how that works out for the law makers as I won't be cultivating anything just distributing some seeds to my friends by airmail!Wording this legislation is going to be a bloody legal nightmare!

how  quickly  they can change their  rules for something they want but for immigration law  this  cant be done so fast