By: Paphamon Arayasukawat

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Tobacco Authority of Thailand (TOAT) expects lucrative businesses related to cannabis and hemp extracts will help compensate for deteriorating income from tobacco production.

TOAT Governor Panuphol Rattanakanjanapatra said TOAT is drafting a ministerial regulation to give the organization an authority to grow and produce extracts from cannabis and hemp, which can be used in medicine and cosmetics.

He said clarity is needed on TOAT conducting R&D on cannabis and hemp for commercial purposes although the Tobacco Act stipulates TOAT can produce tobacco leaves and other plants. TOAT has already discussed with the State Enterprise Policy Office and the Office of the Council of State for TOAT to be involved with cannabis and hemp businesses.

The governor said the business value of cannabis and hemp could reach tens of billions of baht, which can compensate for a decline in tobacco income stemming from the tobacco tax structure.

 

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Good luck regulation and policing such enterprises as it could also be a slippery slop to all sorts of money business given the nature of the crop...

Or they could just do something like this...

https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/the-marlboro-man-cometh/Content?oid=12448855

 

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The Tobacco Authority of Thailand (TOAT) expects lucrative businesses related to cannabis and hemp extracts will help compensate for deteriorating income from tobacco production.

Forget all this namby pamby <deleted> and sell the real thing - The company will make more than they ever did selling tobacco .......................LOL

how many people died from smoking tobacco?  Until now there is not one case of dead caused by overdoses of cannabis according to neurosurgeon Dr Sanjay Gupta on CNN (see Youtube)

12 hours ago, webfact said:

The governor said the business value of cannabis and hemp could reach tens of billions of baht, which can compensate for a decline in tobacco income stemming from the tobacco tax structure.

The government finally admits that they have squeezed the tobacco cash cow too much!

Maybe they should put Big Toke in charge of this.