Foreign tourists will flood into Thailand after marijuana law changes - Thai ganja called country's "secret weapon"

[webfact]

Picture: Siam Rath

 

Siam Rath reported from the final day of a marijuana seminar and symposium at the Ratchamongkhol Isaan University in Surin, north east Thailand.

 

The media said the third day was as busy as the rest on Sunday with people keen to find out how to grow marijuana for medical use legally. 

 

It was held under tha asupices of the Thai Ministry of Public Health whose leader and Bhumjai Thai party boss Anutin Charnvirakul has promoted ganja for health and economic benefits in his manifesto.

 

Keynote speaker Chartchai Rotrungrangsri noted that Thailand would be involved in a battle for tourists as the pandemic eased. 

 

He described marijuana as Thailand's "secret weapon" noting that the country was the first in the region to relax laws.

 

He claimed that tourists would flood in as a result giving the country an edge over other nations in Asia claiming that "nine out of ten tourists" would want to try ganja and hemp products, reported Siam Rath.

 

He said that Thai ganja was highly regarded comparing it with Khao Horm Mali (Jasmine Rice) for its tourism pulling power.

 

ASEAN NOW notes that the rhetoric and the reality are quite separate.

 

Anyone who thinks they can light up a spliff in Thailand could be swiftly arrested. 

 

CBD oil will be widely available and people can get a ganja leaf on their rice. The latter is already a gimmick with no proven nutritional value or even a decent taste.

 

And THC - the drug that makes the user high - is still strictly regulated and subject to prosecution.  

 

Tourists beware. 

 

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[Pouatchee]

1 minute ago, webfact said:

He described marijuana as Thailand's "secret weapon" noting that the country was the first in the region to relax laws.

 

He claimed that tourists would flood in as a result giving the country an edge over other nations in Asia claiming that "nine out of ten tourists" would want to try ganja and hemp products, reported Siam Rath.

Dream on! In Canada you can legally smoke some great weed as in many other places in the world. He seems to think that he will be attracting people who want hemp products and not the real deal. 'Pipe' dream on dude

[ThailandRyan]

So they believe that it will be a trip to have a high of a trip...these folks could make a wet dream seem like it could come true even for a celibate castrated monk who had his privates cut off and fed to the ducks....

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

He said that Thai ganja was highly regarded comparing it with Khao Horm Mali (Jasmine Rice) for its tourism pulling power.

Thai stick from the 70's was a very wonderful invention, and the hippies loved it.....

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

Thai stick from the 70's was a very wonderful invention, and the hippies loved it.....

Yes, recall that....

But really, the topic headline is nonsense, simply there are already many such pleasures to be found in Thailand already... 

[RafPinto]

Another wet dream by TAT.

[scubascuba3]

So the other day in a coffee shop they were selling Cannabis leaves in a packet, is this legal now? 

[herfiehandbag]

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

He said that Thai ganja was highly regarded comparing it with Khao Horm Mali (Jasmine Rice) for its tourism pulling power.

I didn't know you could smoke Jasmine Rice, gracious me, you really do learn something new every day!

[CraigInBangkok]

No one is coming for leaves ! So take a s**t or get off the pot 

[Farmerslife]

Potheads.

Ah, these must be the much vaunted high quality tourists that the Government is seeking. 

[TooMuchTime]

schticky green schweed

[Neeranam]

30 minutes ago, webfact said:

Ratchamongkhol Isaan University in Surin

Hardly a educational institution of note

[EVENKEEL]

CBD oil will be widely available and people can get a ganja leaf on their rice.

 

hahaaaaa,  leaf on your rice is what constitutes changed laws. 

[JoePai]

Just how disillusioned can they get !

[ThailandRyan]

3 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Hardly a educational institution of note

Sounds like a good Uni for obtaining an Asean MICE education, if you understand that...so yes it is of note.

[ezzra]

Its sad that Thailand pin their hopes now and resort to marijuana to attract visitors, gone are the days that Thailand's natural beauty and good night life were the main attractions...

[Mickmouse1]

Best quality ,best of everything, you can find it here. MOPH& TAT

[WHansen]

42 minutes ago, webfact said:

ASEAN NOW notes that the rhetoric and the reality are quite separate.

 

Anyone who thinks they can light up a spliff in Thailand could be swiftly arrested. 

 

CBD oil will be widely available and people can get a ganja leaf on their rice. The latter is already a gimmick with no proven nutritional value or even a decent taste.

 

And THC - the drug that makes the user high - is still strictly regulated and subject to prosecution.  

 

Tourists beware. 

Well said

[San Fran Dan]

38 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

So the other day in a coffee shop they were selling Cannabis leaves in a packet, is this legal now? 

Hemp probably 

[San Fran Dan]

5 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Its sad that Thailand pin their hopes now and resort to marijuana to attract visitors, gone are the days that Thailand's natural beauty and good night life were the main attractions...

So you support alcohol for your good times, I smell a Boomer

[San Fran Dan]

30 minutes ago, Farmerslife said:

Potheads.

Ah, these must be the much vaunted high quality tourists that the Government is seeking. 

I’ll take pot heads over “out of control “Drunks,  at least pot heads just go to sleep and not be obnoxious 

[sanuk711]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He described marijuana as Thailand's "secret weapon" noting that the country was the first in the region to relax laws.

Its been a few years since I was in Cambodia---but what was being sold openly there --i.e. "Happy" Pizza........ do you want soup or "Happy" Soup

 

Was all that Illegal ?........because it was in the main street---quite open.

 

After a few days of being asked that---there was only one answer....Want Double Happy...!!!...............

[BangkokReady]

21 minutes ago, San Fran Dan said:

at least pot heads just go to sleep and not be obnoxious 

Can't you get cannabis psychosis from smoking too much weed?

[BangkokReady]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He described marijuana as Thailand's "secret weapon" noting that the country was the first in the region to relax laws.

How could it be if they aren't letting people actually get high? What could they possibly see as the benefit or draw?

[Guderian]

Twenty years ago there were bars in Phnom Penh that had a large bowl of weed on the bar that you could just help yourself to, it was completely free, like peanuts are nowadays. It certainly wasn't something that influenced my holiday destination choices, just like the free peanuts don't, lol. 

[IamNoone88]

Its a bit like trying to sell the concept of a wild party experience based around non-alcoholic beer and non-alcoholic cocktails. 

[mahtin]

50 years ago in Amsterdam... Thai Stick, plat du jour on the blackboard in coffee shops.

[daveAustin]

You can make legal full THC and give it away for free with buxom young beauties, but until you sort the entry issues, no one’s coming!

[carlyai]

On 3/7/2022 at 1:52 PM, BangkokReady said:

Can't you get cannabis psychosis from smoking too much weed?

I take Viagra and a Valium,  so if I don't get a <deleted>  I don't give a <deleted>.

[klauskunkel]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He said that Thai ganja was highly regarded comparing it with Khao Horm Mali (Jasmine Rice) for its tourism pulling power.

people can get a ganja leaf on their rice

A double whammy slam dunk: khao pad ganja

a tsunami of tourists is on its way...

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, herfiehandbag said:

1 hour ago, webfact said:

He said that Thai ganja was highly regarded comparing it with Khao Horm Mali (Jasmine Rice) for its tourism pulling power.

 

1 hour ago, herfiehandbag said:

I didn't know you could smoke Jasmine Rice, gracious me, you really do learn something new every day!

I wasn't aware that Jasmine Rice was known for its 'tourism pulling power either'. In fact I'd suggest that most foreign rice consumers probably have no idea where the rice they eat comes from.