Law change to light up Thai medical cannabis market

By The Nation

 

 

The Public Health Ministry will propose an amendment to the Narcotic Act to the Cabinet on Tuesday (August 4), seeking to maximise the benefits of medical cannabis.

 

The move comes after Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha announced urgent projects to enhance local research and development of medical cannabis, said Food and Drug Administration deputy secretary-general Paisarn Dunkum.

 

Under the current law, the Thai medical establishment and patients do not have full access to cannabis-based treatments, resulting in a lack of knowledge.

 

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul wants to unlock the full potential of medical cannabis under a new draft of the act that has been screened by every sector and approved by the narcotics commission.

 

The draft focuses on supporting marijuana plantations for medical treatment, developing local knowledge, and boosting the medical cannabis industry.

 

Under the new act, drug manufacturers would also be able to export more cannabis-derived medicines, increasing Thailand’s competitiveness in the market and boosting development to benefit the public.

 

Thai cannabis clinics in 291 public health centres had received 60,000 requests for treatment so far this year, said Marut Jirasrattasiri, director-general of the Department of Thai Traditional and Complementary Medicine.

 

He said the amended law would help boost knowledge to produce cannabis extracts for factories to produce medicines under World Health Organisation good manufacturing practices (GMP) for 152 hospitals in Thailand.

 

Four hospitals are currently piloting medical cannabis treatments on 15,200 patients while the Public Health Ministry has established six cannabis plantations to support future development.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30392375

 

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Long way to get to retail shops. Moneymaker for the government. 

8 minutes ago, Colabamumbai said:

Long way to get to retail shops. Moneymaker for the government. 

An even longer way for poor farmers to be able to grow it as promised by the fork tongued snake.

To be fair i know for a fact that Thailand is affording a greater and simpler access to medical cannabis than many other counties around the world, forget about recreational for now, many more sick people need it now like a lady friend of mine who's doing chemo as we speak and chemo in thailand is no bed of roses...

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The draft focuses on supporting marijuana plantations for medical treatment, developing local knowledge, and boosting the medical cannabis industry.

Ripe for corruption.

This should be welcomed as another step away from the idiocy of the War on Drugs.

Free The Green????????????????????

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Ripe for corruption.

Not only that , they are conspiring to come up with the best methods of squeezing all the money from the poor farmers who want to make some small money from this plant.

7 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

An even longer way for poor farmers to be able to grow it as promised by the fork tongued snake.

Yep. A niche market for the already wealthy!!!

Tik-tok-tik-tok .. counting the seconds to the end of the charade when they can legalize it without losing face. You know it's coming.

2 hours ago, DrTuner said:

Tik-tok-tik-tok .. counting the seconds to the end of the charade when they can legalize it without losing face. You know it's coming.

Lives will be saved. Less drunk speeders in Thailand.

6 minutes ago, earlinclaifornia said:

Lives will be saved. Less drunk speeders in Thailand.

How...?

14 hours ago, webfact said:

Under the new act, drug manufacturers would also be able to export more cannabis-derived medicines, increasing Thailand’s competitiveness in the market and boosting development to benefit the public.

 

And I thought they were trying to irradiate smoking...Or is this stuff put in cakes....????

1 hour ago, transam said:

And I thought they were trying to irradiate smoking...Or is this stuff put in cakes....????

cakes. cookies. lollipops. candy. gummy bears. oils. tinctures. hot sauce if you like. nam pla. you name it. 

 

aroi mak. 

4 hours ago, DrTuner said:

Tik-tok-tik-tok .. counting the seconds to the end of the charade when they can legalize it without losing face. You know it's coming.

Agreed, legalization in some form is coming and it couldn't happen too soon.

   When I first came here in the late '70s ganja was almost as easy to buy as beer. Laws were on the books but they were widely ignored.

   It was in the cities, in the villages  and on the islands.

   Then came the War on Drugs and along with a draconian crackdown on grass a whole new line of designer drugs became available for the affluent while there was always plenty of yah-bah for the proles.

   An eventual return to ganja would be history repeating itself here.

   It remains to be seen if it will repeat itself as tragedy or as farce.

What was the result of the proposal?