Gimmick or healthy? Something to promote tourism? Ganja menus likely to spark online debate

[webfact]

Gimmick or healthy? Something to promote tourism? Ganja menus likely to spark online debate

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Thailand continues to discuss the subject of consuming marijuana leaves after they were removed from the narcotics list.

 

And the Thai media can't get enough of writing stories about the latest restaurants to put them on their menus. 

 

Yet there is little evidence being offered that they are either tasty or particularly good for you. 

 

Picture: Manager

 

Many online - especially foreigners on forums like Thaivisa who know their marijuana - have just said it is a gimmick. 

 

Billed as the first restaurant in Isaan to offer a ganja menu is the "Cannabis Kitchen @ Hop" part of the Hop Beer House operation in Korat. 

 

They are putting leaves that appear little more than garnish on pizzas, on pats of rice and in things like steamboats. 

 

They are even going so far as to warn certain people - the under 25s, those with heart, kidney or liver conditions and pregnant women - NOT to eat them. 

 

Picture: Manager

 

They plan to source 60 kilos of leaves for use from legal sources.

 

They claimed it would boost tourism. 

 

In Rayong "Ban Tun" on Sri Muang Neua Road became the first restaurant in the area to offer a marijuana themed menu. 

 

Owner Noppaporn, 33, said they taste nice but she only uses 2 or 3 in each dish. 

 

Sources: Manager | Daily News

 

 

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[Geoffggi]

Absolute rubbish !!!!!!!!!!!!

[PatOngo]

Do they think tourists are going to flock to Thailand to eat strangely ganja leaves that do nothing! Wake up Thailand!

[PatOngo]

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

Owner Noppaporn, 33, said they taste nice but she only uses 2 or 3 in each dish. 

Use 20, honey, it will have the same non effect!

[2530Ubon]

They'd be better off coming to my kitchen. They might get food poisoning due to my lack of cooking skills, but they'd be smiling, happy and high when they leave!

Edited February 17, 2021 by 2530Ubon

[Dagfinnur Traustason]

What is it with eating leaves? Simply don´t have to go to another country for that, right? Just to climb up the birch tree in the city park and play Mr Panda.

[GeorgeCross]

what is wrong with the buffoons in this country? they can't even sell ganja correctly f f s

 

 

not that hard is it?!

 

 

 

Edited February 17, 2021 by GeorgeCross

[mtls2005]

Gimmick.

 

And a silly one to boot.

 

Not sure why they bother.

[canopus1969]

Can remember the Happy Pizza in Phnom Penh many moons ago   ????

[connda]

Hemp leaves on your salad is a bull**** gimmick that is a mocking "foot in the face" of the average Thais citizen who will end up in jail if they attempt to grow it and use it like the extra-special select restaurants that have been anointed and blessed by the Health Minister.  It will also end up getting a new class of unsuspecting tourist thrown in jail when they equate the open culinary use of hemp leaves with legality to use ganja, especially when the start using terms like "Ganja Salad and Ganja Pizza on their menus."
Hopefully the genie just climbs out of the bottle and become too big to push back in.  Thais will end up growing it when they see these gimmicks and then act innocently ignorant if caught.  But perhaps there comes a point when too many people start to grow it and they'd have to toss half of Thailand in jail to stop it.

Classic "you can't have you're cake and eat it too." <government and Anutin wags a finger at the Thai commoners>.
They hang this like a carrot on a stick in front of the Thai people, then like a donkey who finally figures out a way to get a bite of the carrot, they'll beat commoner who dares to actually use it. 
But how long can they keep "The Big Ganja Tease" up before an exasperated public finally just ignores it all as unfair and deliberately spiteful and provocative? 

Edited February 17, 2021 by connda

[connda]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

They plan to source 60 kilos of leaves for use from legal sources.

In other words, "If you commoners attempt to grow leaves and serve them in your own restaurants it will be prison for you!"  You!  Little people!  Don't even dare!!! <finger wag>

They need to start making T-shirts for the anointed extra-special restaurant's staff to wear.
A T-shirt with a five-cluster marijuana leave with the print reading "I'm A Friend Of Anutin C."  And maybe a silk-screen graphic of Anutin too boot.

Edited February 17, 2021 by connda

[VincentRJ]

I'm surprised at the negativity here. The psychoactive ingredient of Cannabis, THC, requires heat for it to be released. The raw, uncooked plant is very nutritious. The following article provides the details.

 

"The marijuana plant’s leaves are rich in properties such as antioxidants, polyphenols and antibiotics as well as cancer-reducing and anti-inflammatory compounds known as cannabidiols. These compounds are what makes raw weed a superfood."
 

https://www.marijuanadoctors.com/resources/methods-medicating-cannabis/eating-raw-cannabis/

[Jimbo2014]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Yet there is little evidence being offered that they are either tasty or particularly good for you

 

Indeed - and if there is no THC it begs the question why anyone would want to eat it.  Might as well eat weeds from the garden, probably better for you.

[Ireland32]

Just a BTW comment , say you get pulled over for a Pee Test , you better have a Prescription from a Clinic if you Test Positive  

[overherebc]

Post pandemic, whenever that is, this sort of non news will spread overseas and as it changes with the telling it will for sure attract those that will believe what they hear, ie, get to Thailand, have a meal on the beach and get your buzz on all day.

It doesn't have to 100% true, close enough will do the trick.

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Gimmick or healthy?

Desperation.

[CraigInBangkok]

5 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Desperation.

greed and stupidity  are the words that spring to my mind ... if someone had actually thought about it, dutch style coffeeshops would have more than likely actually got some tourists back. No! lets just try and rip people off for a quick baht with some hemp leaves and call it ganja. Not the most well thought out plan in my eyes.

[RocketDog]

6 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Do they think tourists are going to flock to Thailand to eat strangely ganja leaves that do nothing! Wake up Thailand!

If Thailand wakes up will it be better or worse for farang? 

Careful what you wish for. 

I say let sleeping Thai lay. 

[RocketDog]

Just another nonsense gimmick. 

Few people will fall for it I think. 

[PatOngo]

1 minute ago, RocketDog said:

If Thailand wakes up will it be better or worse for farang? 

Careful what you wish for. 

I say let sleeping Thai lay. 

Nothing to worry about there, they will always be in a state of suspended animation!

[Pique Dard]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

They claimed it would boost tourism.

not sure! i don't see tourists travelling to  korat just for the dubious pleasure of eating pizza with a leaf of marijuana on it! i don't know (because i don't use any illicite drug) but marijuana can be found everywhere in thailand, i think

[Solinvictus]

19 minutes ago, Pique Dard said:

not sure! i don't see tourists travelling to  korat just for the dubious pleasure of eating pizza with a leaf of marijuana on it! i don't know (because i don't use any illicite drug) but marijuana can be found everywhere in thailand, i think

Yeah especially if it's already legal in their home country or state...

 

The bottom line is the GOV wants to make a profit and they can from all angles..

[patman30]

such a big opportunity missed????‍♂️